You are now ready to link your bucket to Cloud Sync. Take note of your Account ID. Click “Create Application Key” and also take note. Select Show Account ID and Application Key.ĥ. Now you will need your Account ID and Application Key. Give your bucket a name and make sure it is private.Ĥ. Create a bucket under B2 Cloud Storage.ģ. Firstly to sign up to Backblaze B2 and log in.Ģ. How to Setup B2 with Synology Cloud Sync Prepare a B2 Bucketġ. So this solution should work fine for most Hello Daniel! Versioning is available in cloud sync, but is not configurable beyond keeping old versions or not. I also asked Backblaze if versioning is available with Cloud Sync and they replied that it is available but not configurable beyond keeping old versions or not.
I have already placed a request on the Synology forum for B2 Hyper Backup support. The only caveat so far is that Cloud Sync does not have as in-depth versioning like with Synology Hyper Backup or Crashplan. This tool can be used to backup directory’s to a B2 storage bucket so you always have an up to date version of your files in the cloud. This allows you to sync files with a cloud storage provider such as Backblaze B2, Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3 and others. Synology Diskstation Manager has cloud file sync software called Cloud Sync. After a while I moved the Crashplan client from the NAS to its own virtual machine on my server however it was still not that reliable.
The Crashplan client regularly broke after it updated and was resource hungry which drastically slowed performance of the NAS.
this method however is not officially supported and I found it to be very unreliable. I purchased a Synology NAS a little while ago and moved my Crashplan client to the Synology NAS. This has been a great solution for me even if i am not a massive fan of their java client. I even have several of my family using my server to backup there stuff. Like many people I choose Crashplan because of its cheap unlimited backup plan that I have been using for several years.
My Previous Solutionīefore I started using Backblaze B2 I was using Crashplan Central to backup my NAS. I found it very simple to setup by just creating a BackBlaze account and setting up a B2 Bucket the web control panel and configuring the built in Synology Cloud Sync app to backup files in my home directory. By far the cheapest cloud storage solution compared to others, finally making it affordable for to use this type of solution. It charges $0.005 per GB to backup this works out at around $5 for 1TB. What is Backblaze B2?īackblaze B2 is a recently released cloud backup storage solution that works with Synology NAS (and other applications). This tutorial will run though the set up Backblaze B2 cloud storage as a backup method for your Synology NAS using Cloud Sync.
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