NAS for 2 - 3 persons with onedrive for business

Kurgen

Kurgen

Kurgen

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My dad currently has a Synology DS120j for 3 pcs, just working as a shared network drive. The drive backups up daily to a USB HDD as well. When it was first running it synced with onedrive for business, now it wont sync with anything and the interface is so slow its unusable. I dont wont to mess with it to much incase it goes down altogether.

Are there any better NAS units for small business , i would only need 2 drives, and i would get 2x 1tb as the data use is minimal under 100gb. Ideally to backup/sync to onedrive but not essential. at the moment if the office burns down its all gone. Even if the Synology station can be resolved its so slow i would rather not bother with it.

Are QNAP any good? something like the QNAP TS-230

*onedrive support isnt essential , reliability 1st
 
bremen1874 said:
Can't you use OneDrive as the primary?

You could use Veeam to take backups of what's on OneDrive and save it to the NAS as often as you feel necessary.
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I think i know what your are saying... on the 3 PCS signing in with the single one drive account. they all then have a local copy of the Data and automatically synced to the cloud and therefor each other. Any older stuff i could move off as its not current.

So what i actually need is a solution to backup onedrive.. Veeam which you suggested you need to speak to a partner. which means it must cost to much for this purpose. but there must be others that offer the same
 
Ive tried it on my own account, it look like it backups up all your mail and the onedrive. i only need the onedrive. also, i dont understand where its backing up too, it never asked for any drives. and its running very slowly? read rate 56kbs.. and if it compeltes cn i tell what its backed up. maybe this is a bit to advanced for me
 
The first backup will take a while depending on how data there is stored. Later backups are much, much, quicker.

You can specify whether it includes mail or not. Personally, having a backup of my emails is as important as the other stuff.

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bremen1874 said:
The first backup will take a while depending on how data there is stored. Later backups are much, much, quicker.

You can specify whether it includes mail or not. Personally, having a backup of my emails is as important as the other stuff.

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What does the final backup look like, can you actually browse it and pick what to restore? does it restore back to the original onedrive or where ever you choose. Sorry for the noob questions, the help is appreciated
 
Do you need to have all of the data synced to all of the machines? A large proportion of what I have on OneDrive (especially the older stuff) is cloud-only until I need to work on it.
 
well. he wants to have it all available... older persons syndrome.. I'm thinking get the Synology DS218+ and get 2x 1TB iron wolf drives. It gives me a new unit with tech support, the CPU seems a lot faster. and i can use the 2nd drive as an internal backup. get the onedrive working, then i can factory reset the old unit, upgrade the firmware, and possibly get it working as well offsite ?

he is not opposed to spending £500 on the hardware.
 
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