DSM5 (still beta) sync NAS to Google Storage

[stevech]

Interesting short read..

Problems with NAS/Google/PC/Laptop syncs-not, in DSM4, user says... will be / are fixed in DSM 5.

" It turns out that Synology released a Beta update to the NAS a couple of weeks ago that added the option to backup a specified folder to Dropbox or Google Drive. This new option is called Cloud Sync. Now we are in backup business. To top this off did I just read that Google charges just $0.25 per GB over the first 15GB per year? That is impressively cheap for piece of mind."

Read more http://bwengr.com/blog/synology-nas-cloud-sync-backups/

http://bwengr.com/blog/synology-nas-cloud-sync-backups/

 

[Kris404]

Wouldn't it be cheaper backing up to Amazon S3 or Glacier?

 

[buzzkillb]

Wouldn't it be cheaper backing up to Amazon S3 or Glacier?

I wrote the above and was wondering can you sync on the fly with Amazon S3? The reason I like using something like Google Drive or Dropbox is that its constantly being updated and can be synced across multiple computers simultaneously.

Also S3 looks like $0.08/GB/month. I was going off prices my partner found quickly for Drive, but now I see its more like $.20/GB/month.

Drive seems cheap for how easy that was to setup and how the 5.0 Beta DSM works with it.

 

[stevech]

Amazon S3 is far more expensive than several others. I've read that Glacier is quite expensive on the retrieval side (bandwidth) and is not intended for speed retrievals as it is near-line not on-line, storage.
Among the lowest cost and now reliable (not so in the past), that I've found and have used, is OpenDrive.

It also has a PC side virtual drive.

I really dislike GoogleDrive's PC side... you have to store a copy of every file/folder in your Google drive folder on your PC, then they pull from that one and only folder to copy to GoogleDrive on their servers. OpenDrive and others don't require this extra copy of all files.

But really, I rely on my small NAS and the triple-backups to other media that it keeps. And it's on-line too. I think my largest threat of data loss is theft of hardware - and I deal with that with a small drive on the LAN that's not likely to be noticed because of its location. These measures done, I have the robust backups and on-line secure access I want. The only downside is that my Internet access is only 1Mbps upstream (I can't rationalize paying more for more).

 

[buzzkillb]

I like the idea of Google Drive being mirrored on anything it comes into contact with. Though that doesn't work so well if we had a lot of employees.

But then for my line of work I haven't seen anything that works really well in a big office environment for backups and syncing. Its usually run a full backup in the morning and the old IT person taking the backup drives home with them every night.

I have had too many DVD's and USB drives go bad to trust a backup to them. And have a huge stack of broken hard drives.

The reason for the blog post is that at almost random I found out that Synology would work with Drive. And it was exactly what we were looking for, for the size of my very small company. And I am also a cheapskate when we can get away with it.

 

[Kris404]

Did you guys look at something like 'FileTransporter'?

It is a private Dropbox-like solution. You can deploy at muliple locations to guard against theft.

 

[L&LD]

That doesn't look like something I'd trust (too proprietary for my tastes) - why can't I just buy the software? Or can I?

 

[stevech]

Did you guys look at something like 'FileTransporter'?

It is a private Dropbox-like solution. You can deploy at muliple locations to guard against theft.

I say the FileTransporter is a marketing gimmick, and adds wireless risk/hassle.
If one already has a small NAS like Synology/QNAP one can enable its SSL secure remote access (also known as secure cloud storage).

Moving a lotta big files off the NAS to somewhere by means faster than via Internet, why not just use an external hard drive (TB 2.5in is cheap), or a 64GB thumb drive, etc. Plug either into a PC or better, into the NAS' USB3 port and copy via the NAS admin.

 

[buzzkillb]

We started by using Synology Cloud Station. But that never worked right. It would randomly stop working, and then I would have to redo everything and start the sync from scratch. If you can get Cloud Station to work then that is already a solution to the problem.

The original post is mentioning how Drive now works with a Synology NAS. This is something very recent that Synology has added and its currently in Beta. We didn't need to buy something new as we already have the device working really nicely. Others might come across this that didn't know there are some new cloud storage options.