Backing up the .qsync folder to Backblaze B2

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Hello:

I found the following statement on the QNAP website (How to Back Up and Restore Qsync Folders in HBS 3 | QNAP):

"Note:

HBS 3 currently does not support backing up Qsync folders to a cloud storage space."

However, after unhiding the .QSync folder I can now see it lives in homes/username/.Qsync

And I can select my username folder to be added to the HBS3 backup job to Backblaze B2. The size of files to be transferred certainly seems to suggest it’s being backedup. Am I missing something? Is there a better way for me to set things up? I was using QSync to sync folders between computers and have access on my phone and want to use HBS3->B2 for longterm backup.

Thanks

OS: Windows 11
NAS: TS-264
Firmware: 5.2.5.3145

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Probably because qsync files are deduped to save storage space. If you back one up it would be useless without all the other stuff where the dedup info resides.

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My solution (partial) to having multiple copies of backups in different places would be to allow qsync to sync PC’s to multiple NAS’s for those of us with 2 or more.

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So you’re saying it is being backed-up? Or the whole .qsync folder is backed up everytime, not incrementally? Not sure I understand. And I don’t have access or the budget for an off-site NAS.

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Lets say you are backing up 10 pc’s. They all have the same windows operating system files. So instead of having 10 copies of each of these files dedup keeps one copy and stores a limk for the other backups. Dedupe keeps track of all this and moving one backup could cause you to lose information for all backups.

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Copying a backup to somewhere else would render it useless. That is why I would like for those of us with 2 nas’s to be able to back up to different nas’s. Backups of backups is good!