DS1512+ Backing up software question - retiring the Drobo.

[pleccy]

Hi,
I'm retiring my Drobo due to the droboshare component failing. It's been very good to be fair, but is a little slow and now that modern NAS's have things like HybridRAID which will give me the ability, similar to a drobo, to pull out a drive when it's nearing full and replace with a larger one, and mix and match HDD brands. (These are the reasons I chose Drobo in the first place: scalability).

So on my Drobo there's a nice piece of software called DroboCopy which backs up all my data files on a daily schedule at 7pm. So my question is... Does the Synology have a built in backup feature, or do I need to be using something like SyncBack?

Thanks in advance

 

[thiggins]

Synology NASes have plenty of backup features. See http://www.synology.com/dsm/index.php?lang=us

 

[stevech]

Hi,
I'm retiring my Drobo due to the droboshare component failing. It's been very good to be fair, but is a little slow and now that modern NAS's have things like HybridRAID which will give me the ability, similar to a drobo, to pull out a drive when it's nearing full and replace with a larger one, and mix and match HDD brands. (These are the reasons I chose Drobo in the first place: scalability).

So on my Drobo there's a nice piece of software called DroboCopy which backs up all my data files on a daily schedule at 7pm. So my question is... Does the Synology have a built in backup feature, or do I need to be using something like SyncBack?

Thanks in advance

Read about the product. I own a DS212. The DSM software is essentially the same on all products, and DSM has many backup methods supported, including
Scheduled backup to external media (USB or eSATA or LAN accessed disk)
Time Machine backup, scheduled, so you have the last 30 days of versions of files/folders from some or all of a disk volume
Inter-NAD backups via "iSCSI" which essentially gives secure low level remote disk drive access via LAN/WAN (virtual device driver)
Backup to Amazon's S3 service

and others