I’m currently setting up a hybrid cloud storage solution using a QNAP NAS (specifically the TS-x64 series) and wanted to get some advice or best practices from those who’ve done something similar.
The goal is to create a [hybrid cloud storage] setup that balances local storage performance with the scalability and redundancy of the cloud. QNAP’s Hybrid Backup Sync (HBS 3) looks promising, but I want to make sure I’m going about it the right way.
Here are a few questions I have:
Best Cloud Services for Integration:
Which cloud providers (e.g., Backblaze B2, AWS S3, Google Drive, OneDrive, Wasabi, etc.) have worked best for you in terms of reliability and performance with HBS 3?
Performance Optimization:
Are there tips for optimizing sync speeds or reducing lag in real-time sync jobs? I’m considering using QuDedup – is it worth it?
Scheduling & Bandwidth Management:
How do you manage backup schedules and bandwidth throttling so that cloud sync jobs don’t interfere with normal NAS operations?
Security Practices:
Any key security settings I should enable—like encryption, 2FA, VPN, or firewall rules—when syncing data with the cloud?
Cost Management:
How do you monitor and control costs, especially with services like AWS or Google that charge based on bandwidth and storage usage?
Disaster Recovery & Versioning:
Have you implemented version control or snapshot replication to protect against ransomware or accidental deletions?
Thanks in advance—looking forward to learning from your experiences!
Just checking we are not talking to a bot as all of this sounds very AI generated.
What is your goal? Are you trying to setup a backup of your NAS? Are you trying to backup existing cloud data? Why did you link to a Lenovo Service page ? (Almost as if a LLM googled for the wrong cloud storage page)
Here are some suggestions, hope you find them helpful! Feel free to share your thoughts or let us know what works best for you. Happy to discuss more!
We recommend using myQNAPcloud Storage, our own cloud service. It’s fully tested and works best with QNAP NAS.
QuDedup works great if you’re backing up data with lots of repetitive content, like VMs or ISO files. To get the best performance, we recommend using an x86 NAS with SSDs, and running HBS on an SSD volume.
You can set bandwidth limits when creating backup jobs to avoid affecting your daily NAS use.
HBS supports client-side encryption to make sure your files are protected before they’re uploaded.
myQNAPcloud One offers a more cost-effective cloud storage option compared to other services. You only pay for the storage space you use, with no additional fees for data transfer or API requests. Its straightforward pricing model makes it easier for businesses to manage budgets and plan costs.
HBS supports Smart Versioning, which keeps recent versions more often and saves space.
I would also recommend myQNAPcloud storage - it is extremely cost effective compared to other cloud storage solutions.
I also use iDrive to backup my data to the cloud. Don’t use the new iDrive backup feature for QNAP that works with HBS. The cost is WAY too expensive. Instead set up a normal iDrive account and use their backup app available in App Center. I have about 14TB of storage on their system now. And the price is very reasonable.
So everything is backed up to my iDrive account. I backup “critical” items (< 1TB) to my myQNAPCloud storage account since it is about 3 times the cost of the iDrive account but it is easier and integrates better with the QNAP.
I also backup my data between to NAS units and also do snapshots, etc. I have multiple copies of everything now in multiple places. I recently realized that I lost a large amount of personal projects, videos, data, etc from years ago that were on a computer that was not properly backed up and I thought I could just pull data off the drives after ten years of it sitting there. Nope. Nearly every drive failed. So now I am not going to make that same mistake!
As far as bandwidth usage, it took about 2 to 3 weeks to upload everything to my iDrive account at 40Mb/s upload. iDrive has a service where they can send you a hard drive where you can then backup files to that and ship it back to them to load into your account. It was not any faster than just uploading the data quite honestly! But now that everything is uploaded both on myQNAP and iDrive, the bandwidth usage is minimal as backups are all incremental.
