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Synology drive alternative7/22/2023 ![]() The company even offers dedicated devices for DVA/DVR operations. One of the most popular Synology apps and platforms is without a doubt Surveillance Station. More on that in these dedicated articles. While at the moment, Synology does not offer Wireguard VPN protocol, you can still configure it and use it. VPN serverįor a more in-depth overview and configuration of the VPN server setup, try and read the following article. With a secure and private connection, you can access all your sensitive apps, documents, and services just as you would while inside your local network. This package will allow your NAS to become a central connection point for all your remote clients while you are away from your LAN (and your NAS). From their proprietary QuickConnect, DDNS, and reverse proxy, there is also a more secure way to do it. This would also be recommended even in the case that you use your NAS with a pure SSD setup.įor those of you out there who need access to your stored data, Synology offers more than a few ways to accomplish this. On a personal note, if you are serious about VM usage, get a dedicated host, and use Synology NAS as storage for those VMs. Synology Photos article explains in detail how you can use it and how it functions in general. Also, you can then share that album with others, and "teach" them to automatically update with new content based on tags, and other settings. With albums, you will be able to quickly make a compilation of various images and videos without duplicating them in a new physical location. With that, you will not have to worry about having an up-to-date backup of all of your favorite memories at any moment.Īnother great feature of Photos is albums (virtual albums to be precise). With support for multiple users, public and private sharing as well as face detection (on selected models), Photos also offers the option to backup your mobile devices to the NAS. Bringing the best of both worlds, while leaving some features behind, Photos was a big success, and one of the main reason users are updating to DSM 7. With the arrival of DSM 7 last year, Synology decided to merge their current photo apps at the time, Photo Station and Moments into a single all-in-one platform. More info on the inner working of this app, can be found in this comparison backup article. If you ever needed to restore from one NAS to another either data, configuration, or both, HB is the tool to do it. This means that even if your NAS is no longer operational you can still get to your data from a backup location and access it. Restoring data backed up using HB can also be restored using the Hyper Backup Vault that is available for all major desktop platforms. This includes its data and configuration settings. It can also be used to back up any Synology DSM compatible application. HB is another tool that can take advantage of deduplication, scheduled or manual backup, and of course, restores. Those would be another NAS, a compatible rsync server, Synology's very own cloud, C2, or any other number of compatible platforms. Unlike ABB, HB was designed with NAS data backup for various destinations. ![]() The main Active Backup for Business dashboardĪs of recent, ABB also supports full NAS/DSM (OS) backup and bare metal restore, so if you are looking for a disaster recovery solution for your NAS without the need to turn to any cloud provider, this platform can deliver on that as well.įor more details on this new feature have a look at the following article.įollowing on the previous tool, here is another important backup tool. Anyone running a household or a company that needs an endpoint backup solution for free as opposed to some commercial solutions out there would be wise to check out ABB. I have written a number of times here about this platform and for good reason. Alongside those platforms, it will offer the option to backup your virtual machines from popular hypervisors, like ESXi, Hyper-V, or Synology's very own Virtual Machine Manager. The top of the list here takes a relatively new addition to Synology's portfolio that has made its name with a free licensing model for an unlimited number of Windows, Linux, and soon-to-be, macOS devices. *requires a NAS from the "+" lineup or better Also, this list will cover only Synology apps and not any 3rd party platform.Ĭonsidering that most future NAS users are looking toward these kinds of machines for backup and storage space, let's start with that category first. Just to be clear, the list of apps is my personal top 10 and not something that will necessarily be on your list as well.
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