Synology NAS for backup?

Coojeekitten

Coojeekitten

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I'm aiming to put a NAS in my garage for backup. It would be connected by network cable over powerline. I have a lot of video & image files, my wife has image files, so it's not really viable to do this by a cloud system (Crashplan etc) due to the length if time uploads would take.

I was thinking of a Synergy, either 2 or 4 disk. I'm looking at the moment at a DS218 or DS420j as both will take a 0degC operating environment.

Does anyone have experience of the Synergy backup software & how it works? I would like to keep old versions of files.
 
Thank you

I tweaked the thread title.

I will look at Duplicati. It would be a big job to get ethernet out there, maybe easier to have some sort of Wifi. I will try Powerline with a pc first to see if it works.
 
I'm looking at the Synology DS420j with 4 disks - probably WD Red.

Would RAID 6 be ok to go for? It's for backup only, I would prefer fast write speeds.
 
@Armageus thanks for your help. It looks as though RAID 6 & 10 both have the same storage hit, so it's just my use case.

As this is a backup only, plus it's a secondary backup, rebuild speed is not a big issue. I need it to continually run in the event of a single drive failure. So RAID10?
 
Thanks

I have a USB backup which I run weekly.

The DS218 looks possible, although I could get the DS420J & just put in 2 disks? I need about 12tb (minimum 8tb). The garage is about 50m from the house.
 
Yup, I just checked & the DS218+ has a min operating temp of 5degC, I need 0degC. I can't find the DS218, maybe an old model?

Looking like the DS420j with 4x 6tb WD Red & RAID 10.
 
Thanks, I need 0degC capability & seem to be restricted by that. The DS418 for instance is 5degC.

Powerline is my only realistic option. To be fair, until I bought a Roku, I was streamling Netflix over powerline to my TV.
 
Hi again

I've come down to the DS1019+. It has 0degC operating & 5 drive bays which means I can buy cheaper 4tb drives & use RAID6. Loads of upgradability. I'm still tryign to figure out the backup features. What do you guys think?

The recommended WD Red drives are CMR not SMR. What is the difference between these techs please?
 
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