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It’s also secure everything is encrypted. Simply right-click, share, set the permissions and send the link to my editor.

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One thing that has been a pain to do in other places is to securely share NAS data online.įor me, this means giving access to my whole archive of videos to my video editor, so if we need any footage from an old video, he can just hop on here, see the entire library, and grab the footage he needs.Īnd doing this with Synology has been as easy as sharing something on my Google Drive. (But that would be overkill!) Sharing & Security

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Image Courtesy of AuthorĪgain, it’s easy to Install their Hyper Backup application, create a new job and tell it what you want it to back up and how often and away it goes.Īt this stage, I could also take it a ridiculous step further and plug in a USB Drive to the back of the Synology and backup the backup of my backup. To do this, Synology has its C2 Cloud Backup service, which lets you back up everything from the NAS to Synology’s own Cloud Storage service. It’s a pretty simple statement that means that regardless of what happens to you or your data, there will be a surviving copy somewhere. Always have 3 copies of your data, in 2 different locations, and at least one of those kept in another location. Let me introduce you to a term that’s used in the backup world, called 3-2-1. That’s an awful lot of data to have sat on one NAS, even though it can survive when a disk fails. Image Courtesy of Author Backing up the Backup?

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To do this, you just install the Synology Photos App on your Apple or Android phone, install Synology Photos on the NAS, grant a few permissions, and now I can use this NAS to back up all of the photos and videos from my various phones. (I mean, if you’ve got the storage at home, why not use it instead of shelling out monthly for cloud services like Apple or Google to do the exact same thing!) Store all of the Photos and Videos that I and my family take across all of our various mobile devices.I’m not planning on streaming Plex directly off of this NAS as it’s better for me to run the Plex application on my M1 Mac Mini, so I’m just using the NAS as storage here. My Plex Media Library, where I store my old collection of Photos, Music, TVs and Movies (which I’m sure is a big draw for lots of people who are looking for a suitable NAS.).A folder where I can drag all of my old raw Video footage into (so I don’t have to continue paying Google for the cost of unlimited google drive storage).The next one is Media, and there are 3 parts to this. Once it’s installed, follow the prompts to connect this to your Google Drive (or a multitude of other cloud storage providers)ĭragging my footage over to the NAS drive skips my Mac entirely and means that I can get on with whatever I’m doing on my Mac whilst I let the NAS just chug away and upload whatever needs to be uploaded. Simply install the Cloud Sync tool on your Synology by going to Package Center, search for Cloud Sync and click Install. Google Drive is next on my list, because I want a backup of my Google Drive onto my NAS and make it easier to upload footage to my Google drive. You can also use the built-in Windows Backup to back up your Windows PC, or even use third-party tools like Acronis Cyber Protect to back up to your NAS instead of the cloud. This is such a simple process, simply create the folder on the Synology (which you do using the really straightforward web interface), then hop over to your Mac and head into the Time Machine preferences, select the disk, and then let it do its thing. Mac Studio, Mac mini and multiple MacBook Airs around the house. The DS1522+ can be used as a Time Machine, which takes care of most of my home computers. The model I’m using has 2x 400GB Cache drives and 5 of the Synology HAT5300-4T 4TB Hard drives.

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has an optional 10Gb Ethernet upgrade in addition to the included 4x 1GB Ethernet ports.is expandable up to 15 bays if you buy the expansion units.has 5 bays that you can fill with either traditional hard disks OR faster and more expensive SSD’s.Synology have just launched the DS1522+ which retails for around £685, and this thing might just be the answer to all of my data storage issues. With over 17TB of data, plus One Mac Mini, One Mac Studio, two Macbook Airs, and a multitude of iPhone and Android phones - it’s got the stage where I really need to get a handle on my data management.

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