 Tom here from Orange Systems, and we're going to talk about how to back up a Synology using hyper backup I've done some previous videos about active backup for business which allows you to back up G Suite Which allows you to back up Office 365. I've done videos on surveillance station I've done videos on all kinds of different Synology tools and I'll leave links to those down below The next question is how do you properly back up the Synology and what is hyper backup and their C2 service? And that's what I wanted to talk about today Now the first step is making sure you have both hyper backup and hyper backup volt installed There's a couple different backup methodologies that you can use with Synology such as their cloud sync But specifically today, we're just going to focus on hyper backup and how it works Now on your destination, you need to have hyper backup volt on your source You need to have just the hyper backup loaded volt is where all of the data gets stored easily on Synology There's a few different ways to do it But it's one of the easiest ways the hyper backup can live on both though And what I mean by that is you can have Synology a and Synology B and load volt on both and load hyper backup on both And I bring that up because this is something we've actually done for some of our clients that have two buildings And are able to back things up between two different locations Synology a backs up to Synology B and Synology B backs up to Synology A The only thing you have to be careful of if you're setting up that type of scenario Is that you're not checking the box to say backup absolutely everything on a Synology Or you'd backup the backups from each of the other Synologies and kind of create a problem There's also situations and we have another client. We're working with this with that has a series of Synologies all backing up to one that works perfectly fine too You can have a one to many ratio Matter of fact, you can even have more than one instance going from Synology A to Synology B of hyper backup So you can set up some different schedules based on different scenarios or different timings Or when you want them to run and create a whole series of individual jobs We're going to walk you through the process Which is actually really easy for creating these backup jobs in the Synology system So this is our target system, which is an RS 1221 plus And I just did a review on that and I'll leave links to the reviews I did on both of these Synologies down below We have the hyper backup fault loaded and let's create a destination for it There's not really much inside of the Hyper backup fault. We do have The tasks listed here you can set how many concurrent tasks will come in there The tasks that are currently linked to it So we can see that this one right here It can give you some stats Some task settings So you can kind of see the backups and a history of it But like I said, we're going to create a new one These are all lab systems, by the way This is not production in case you see different Passwords or keys and things like that that may be shown in here But we're going to go ahead and create a new folder So we're going to create a folder for the backups to go to on our destination S U Tube Let's go to tube right Demo Back up We don't really need a recycle bin on this We're not even actually going to be sharing it Now encryption Do you want the destination folder to be encrypted? That's up to you It is always better to encrypt data at rest But the good news is the data that we're going to be transferring I'll show you how to add an encryption key to the data when it's Going to be already encrypted at rest So it's up to you if you want to double encrypt it right here Probably not a bad idea You can't have too much encryption right But be wary If you forget the encryption passwords in Synology They've done encryption in a way that you can't just recover it It's it's solid Don't worry Feel free to test it And maybe I'm wrong But my understanding is everything I've read on it It's quite a solid encryption methodology they use Therefore just don't lose the keys when you do this For this demo we're not going to encrypt it at rest Enable an advanced integrity check sum for data integrity Compression probably don't need it So we'll leave that blank And apply All right now we have our destination folder Now the user we can create different backup users We're just going to use the admin user But you can create a special dedicated user Just for backups if you'd like That way you don't have to necessarily keep the password To one Synology and another Synology Just throwing it out there Not everything should be done as admin But for the demo here Yes, we're going to do this as admin And we're just going to use this user right here So hit okay All right there's our YouTube backup demo Created on our destination Synology All right so now we go over to our backup system The system we want to back up When you open up hyper backup And I have a few different demo jobs I have set up here from the testing And let's start a new backup task We start hit the plus button Go to a data backup task Now while USB is supported It's not my favorite And the reason why is because people think Oh I'll remember to just swap those USBs And plug them in and go through this process Of running the backup against an external drive Yes it's supported Traditionally and I just statistically Have seen most people fail at this And they do it once and then forget And then hope that they can recover Whatever losses they have When they accidentally delete a folder Or lose a bunch of files etc It does support it I will at least leave it at that Now let's talk about the other services down here Just to mention they exist Dropbox, Google Drive, HDrive Azure S3 storage Rackspace and a couple others in here So you can back it up to more than just What Synology offers Which is the Synology settings up here Which is a remote NAS device As in another Synology remote NAS device Or their Synology C2 We'll talk about C2 next But let's cover this one right here Remote NAS Go next Enter the IP address of the destination 2, 1, 8 Transfer encryption on trust Now, one thing is if you have this set up Between two Synologies and they're remote from each other And they're traversing the internet to get the data across I highly recommend a VPN Even though the data in flight is going to be encrypted It's just one more layer of security So this traffic isn't just passing publicly In case there's any flaw found within it Just something I prefer when I'm setting these up We're going to go over here to the destination one Go over to bitwarden and I'm going to copy the password And this is where Synology makes life convenient Because we put the password in We can hit this little pull down And it talks to another Synology NAS And look, there is our YouTube demo backup folder that we created Whoops And we'll just go ahead and create a directory within there Now this is important And they give you plenty of characters to describe this When you have a bunch of Synologies backing up to another Synology And we have clients doing this You want to make sure that you properly name all of these That way if one of them dies Or there's a problem and we need to restore from it Especially from a catastrophic failure We know exactly which one it was So do take the time to name that Now as far as why is my Synology called Albert I have no idea my staff named it For anyone that may ask that in the comments Next, what to backup And this is where you can be selective And go through all the folders You can just select everything on this device That would be quite a bit So we're not going to go there We'll choose active backup for business Because we have some data in there from backing up computers We have this C2 backup folder Surveillance Now it's great to backup surveillance to another system But the question comes up quite a bit Is can we backup Surveillance Station in all of its videos To the cloud or to another server It really comes down to bandwidth You frequently, when you have a lot of cameras Are producing video at a rate greater than your internet This happens all the time It doesn't take that many cameras Before you've now have more video Than you can offload through your internet service Unless it did it absolutely full time And that can create some bandwidth crunches So before you check that box And before you wonder why the task is taking so long Especially if it's actively recording That is sometimes a challenge And it's a math equation Figure out how much bandwidth you have on the upload And whether or not you're going to be able to Get that data somewhere else Now locally, it makes a lot of sense And frequently because of retention policies Or just because of people wanting better redundancy They'll have two synologies And one dumping another all the data from one to another Even though it's a lot of data So we'll go ahead and choose these two backups right here Hit next But I will mention before we go any further I guess I should mention this File filters You can exclude or include specifics files So it does give you some granular control We're just going to grab everything in those folders there Applications You can back up the applications themselves Which is great Because now you get all the settings Everything in the applications And you can just check this and get all of them Or just back up this For example Backing up hyper backup sounds redundant But you're actually backing up all the jobs That are within there So we'll go ahead and say yes to that YouTube Demo Enable detail change log That's up to you I kind of like it So if you wanted details of every file that was changed That's nice Backup schedule When do you want it to back up You can do daily weekend weekdays You know whatever works for you Integrity checking So you can do a series of integrity checks on there Enable client side encryption Now this is important If you don't encrypt it The other Synology That's the destination Will be able to see the data Now I bring this up Because this isn't just when you send it to a Synology It's really when you send it to any destination Is if you don't encrypt it Even if the data You know in flight was encrypted The destination The Synology backup If you don't encrypt it Well there's that risk And if you're putting things into the cloud You do need to choose encryption on there Because well it's just important to encrypt all your data at rest Unless there's some reason you don't want to But you can just decide whether or not You want to check that box or not If you do Make sure you do not forget the password Because it's non-arbitrary It's not easy to recover this And pretty much the encryption it uses Is going to be a brute force attempt So the more complex the password The less likely it is during your lifetime That this password will be crackable All right So actually we'll go ahead and put it in here It doesn't need a minimum of eight characters We're going to use the real fancy One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight Hit next Yes if you forget it You don't have it Enable backup rotations This is a nice feature When you want to say All right how many versions backwards So I need to keep revisions I actually like that they have kind of a simple plan here Called the smart recycle plan It's got a pretty staggered way that you keep You know revisions daily Until you get back a few weeks And then you just have a few snapshots going back Allows you kind of a good balance of What I need going backwards Or what I need in terms of If I think I'm missing a file But I thought it was there But it was been a couple of weeks And being able to roll back When you do the restore Pretty handy to have So we hit apply And you can customize retention to fit Whatever policies that you need Backup now Sure why not Backup initializing And away it goes Now while that's backing up Here's one of them That's already been backed up And no good backup plan doesn't Come with a test of the restore Because backing up without Ever testing a restore Is just well wishful thinking That the backups are there This happens unfortunately All too often when people go I thought the backup was working And they never ever tested the restore process Let's talk about that Go here and just click restore Now we'll just select this one right here That's the local one Select this backup Last backup was here Hit next And we said Do not restore system configuration But we could And there's the different revisions From when I set this up A few days ago So each one of these Is just a different revision In case we wanted to Back up or restore I should say any of our Synology configuration settings That's what these are right here But we're not going to do that Because while we're running a backup job Right now and That could probably be interesting restoring now Let's go over here to shared folder And the first thing it does Is give you some warnings That say This shared folder exists On your Synology NAS What that means is The data that you're trying to pull back Is going to go in a folder Where data already is So use this with caution When you're going through And restoring things Because if you restore something that Well Has data in it You're going to end up with some problems So let's look over here Let's see Docker Hey, why not? Well, is this Actually, we can restore Well, that may cause a problem As I'm doing a backup right now So maybe we just want to restore something From the XCPNG lab And Docker Next Apply Oh, won't do it while it's backing up We'll skip ahead here All right, now that we have our backup Actually working and finished Now we can actually do the restore And just make sure I mention this These are revisions you can see When you go backwards on here If you wanted to jump to any particular date And restore that version of Whatever you're backing up And by the way, because When I started this backup There was less files than there are now So as I go through this You can see that there's actually More folders getting listed As we go forward in time Till we go all the way to the present So let's go ahead and check those boxes again And we'll just restore Docker I don't even know what's in it So hit next Apply And it's going back reading Oh, there's really much Not much in Docker So that succeeded quite fast But you get the idea That, well, pretty easy to back things up Now, the other ones I have in here The other demos I have set up Say Synology C2 You're probably wondering What is a Synology C2, sir Synology C2 storage is designed to Offer you the most integrated Cost-effective cloud storage solution For Synology NAS users They started their own backup service That's what this is And we've started testing it out I really like the way it works It's rather simple And of course How much does it cost? That's what everybody wants to know, right? They've made that part pretty clear Got a terabyte of data $69 a year Two terabytes $139 Ten terabytes of data $624 You can see that It's not hard to really figure out They have a couple different plans They have two different data center locations So if you need to store things In Frankfurt, Europe Or United States, Seattle I don't have any other real information on it Because it's really quite simple And it's been around only for a few years I've read a few different reviews of it We've, like I said, selected this For a few test backups That we've been using with some of the Synologies And so far It's actually worked quite well I do like the way the service works I don't have any offers or affiliate or links for it It's just something we're testing out Just to let you know We don't have this currently As of February 2021 In any real large production setups But we've heard from a few of our clients That are using it That they really liked it So we're exploring it as well Now, what does it look like When you back up to that? So right here are the two Demos Synology C2 And Synology C2 They're actually both demos That I have set up The difference between them is This one's encrypted And this one's not And let me show you what that looks like So let's go over here to When you're signed into Synology C2 And what it actually looks like to be inside of here This is the encrypted one And this is the C2 backup demo And this is another demo we have We actually tried it on a couple different machines for this Now, when you go in here And you browse the files Opens up a new window And here's all the files in there So, yes, they're viewable on the cloud But let me explain So when we go over here And we look at the demo C2 right here And we'll go to and Edit the task You can see there's the C2 backup test Application settings It's all the same when you're doing this As it is when you're doing a backup to another Synology So for the process of setting up hyper backup That's all the same other than there's a spot When you set up a C2 server Where it asks you to log into a C2 server With the account that you created for that Now, a couple things I thought was really interesting I'm able to create multiple backups From multiple different NASs But the NASs cannot see each other When they're doing restores Anytime you do a restore or a backup They're only able to see the folder That you created for that particular NAS When you sign in So even though you're signing in with the same account It does seem to keep them all separated Which is great Now, more important Encrypting all the data For this particular one I did not choose client side encryption I did it on purpose For this one I did choose client side encryption So if we go to edit this one We have the option to download the encryption key Or we actually use that same wonderful 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 password So here's the files And let's just view one of them Forums.jpg Or PNG All right Some ugly graphic at time And created that never seemed to lie today Which is good But here's those different files And you can see these are some of my YouTube video files That I dumped in here for the backup demo Let's go over and open up the other one That's encrypted Now with it being encrypted You have one of two options We can upload the decryption key To the Synology system So note for the decryption key Task the Synology C2 server We'll use encryption and password And we'll not save it when the task is done If you don't agree to use this You can always use the hyper backup explorer Which is this right here I have it running inside of a VM Inside of a Synology hyper backup explorer I thought it was neat I didn't even realize they had a hyper backup local tool You can use That'll allow you to browse local backups Or browse a C2 server But I'm fine with doing it online Now what I mean by that is I can just put the password in Or upload that file I can download the encryption key And upload it to there And this is going to Allow me to view the files Because it's doing it right inside the browser What happens when we close the session And start over again So let's close it And it asks me for the password again So it's only saving on the session Of that moment Once the session goes away It goes away too Because if you upload it And save the encryption key With the data that was encrypted at rest It's well easily decrypted again at that point But it's clever that they offered this I like this as an option So if you don't trust the cloud Or for whatever reasons For data privacy You absolutely need it to be encrypted And never decrypted on that endpoint For whatever jurisdictions Or rules that in compliance That you had to follow They do offer that as an option Now as far as restoring things From the Synology cloud It works exactly the same way We go over to Hyperbackup We'll close that And we can just choose any one of them And hit restore data And it'll allow us to go through The same process again So Hyperbackup Definitely a great solution The C2 servers I like this offering from Synology I think it's reasonably priced The testing we've done with it's gone well And as I stated Based on some of the clients We've talked to that are using it They really like it It's been around I think for almost two years now But it's, you know, one more solution To add to the solution checkbox list That Synology offers I'll leave links to some of the other videos Where I've talked about Synology The reviews I've done on the devices That I was using for this particular demo And the uses of active backups Or alienation And some of the other Synology features That we really like That we've been using for a little while Ariadne, thanks And thank you for making it To the end of this video If you enjoyed this content Please give it a thumbs up If you'd like to see more content from this channel Hit the subscribe button and the bell icon To hire a share project Head over to laurancesystems.com And click on the hires button right 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