Tuesday, June 2, 2020

HyperBackup and Synology C2

Recently I reinstalled my DS918+ and I thought of giving Synology C2 a serious test for backing up my stuff. And I think it works pretty good. There's a "HyperBackupExplorer" Windows-tool that allows you to browse/restore files from your C2 backup (in case your NAS goes up in flames or something). Files can also be browsed from the C2 website itself. Notice that the C2 filebrowser cannot download entire folders but the client-software can. I've also experienced encrypted backups in the client has issues with file-sorting. Perhaps a minor issue. Anyway, C2 backup/restore speed is good and maximizes my 100/100 connection. The only downside I discovered is when relinking existing backupjobs (after I reinstalled my NAS). I think Synology could improve things here to make things easier to understand. Anyway, relinking is very slow when you've got lots of files and I'm not sure what's going on really. However it's a onetime-thing so I guess I can live with it. But still, I'm pretty happy with my C2-subscription! And it feels pretty comfortable that I can access my backuped files even if my NAS gets stolen or something and I don't need a new NAS to access the backups.