![]() I assume it’s only using it to stop people from selling it as a service. Hopefully, Synology doesn’t start charging for it in the future. It needs to call home and grab a free license. Unlike before however, when we launch the application. Active Backup in the Synology Package Store Same as before, we go to the Package Manager and install the Active Backup for Business package. We can address this, by using Active Backup for Business to take backups of the Sync directory at regular intervals. So should my OneDrive get compromised just before a sync. As it’s not a Point in Time system it’s always “the latest” unless I use the Schedule to only let it sync once or twice a week.Įven then, I only have 1 copy of the data. Is it? Yet.Īnd there’s no way to sugar coat it. ![]() It would be nice if you could turn this pop up that comes up every 10 seconds during sync off but… But, its not backup. Now, I’ll just let that run for a while… I don’t care that you downloaded a file… tell me if something goes wrong! I don’t exactly need another copy of my Installation Media for Skype. Exclude files? I think they might feel left out.Ī nice touch is the ability to exclude folders but still grab any new ones. Hopefully, preventing a repeat of last time. So it will only download from OneDrive, not upload. Sync Settings PageĪ nice thing to see is that I can make this Sync one way only. Then we are brought to the Sync Settings page. OneDrive included, so let’s pick that and hit Next Synology Cloud Sync Service Provider List including OneDriveĪs soon as I click Next, I get an authentication pop up with my OneDrive as I’m already logged in using this browser session, I’ll just authenticate this on my phone and approve the app. Upon opening the package we are greeted with a ton of different cloud providers. If we search the DSM package library, we can see Cloud Sync is a package that might suit our needs, so lets install it and take a look. So knowing that let’s take a look at the free OneDrive backup package on the Synology. I store a lot of data in my OneDrive, including all the photos from my phones, our family photo library, out personal documents and even my software library chewing up around 700GB of my OneDrive storage (I might need to clean that one day) Remember when OneDrive had unlimited storage? So do I I was basically syncing a local copy of the live data as a “backup” I know its not… But, “ It will never happen to me… right?” WRONG. Like I mentioned before, my old backup solution wasn’t great. Thus today, I’m going to check out some of the free methods I can leverage my local storage to keep backups of my important data.
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