Hello,
First post here after many readings (sorry if question is already posted)
What is the solution to backup the backups that are on the QNAP NAS and have ability to restore backups to another nas without loosing versioning.
I want to backup stations (PCs) to the nas with NetBak PC agent. Versioning will be used.
I want to backup the nas that stores the stations backups and it’s versionning and be able to restore it on a disaster recovery option…
What is the tool to do that?
Thanks
Versioning would be part of the container structure of these backups. You can backup the whole folder to any medium you want and version would stay intact
The easiest option for your (unspecified model) QNAP NAS is likely HBS3 which is a QNAP backup utility. You can decide where your backup will go, such as an external USB hard drive, cloud, another NAS, etc.
Alternatively, you can also simply copy the data manually to another destination to create offline backups, or use a vast number of other utilities to accomplish this.
But, you should see if HBS3 will fit your needs first.
Waw, ok, so in case of disaster recovery of my main NAS (the one that stores primary stations backups), how will the new nas know it has to fit user with station/folder/datas?
What is the tool used ?
Thanks
in addition to the suggestions. You can enable snaps on the shared folders and then do snapshot replica to the same NAS going to another storage pool and or another nas unit.
On my 16 bay unit, i have two storage pools Data and backup. The share folders on Data are snap’d on schedule depending on how data changes, then the snap is replica to the same NAS but to the backup pool. Final step is once every 2 months i connect a usb-c jbod unit and use hbs3 to copy share folders to a raid storage pool on the usb jbod device. Once done i unattach the raid and unit and power it down until the next backup.
So really depends on what you have hardware wise and what level you want you data protected.
Thanks a lot, having a look at HBS.
Thx for sharing
Can you restore cp[ied HDP backups? I always thought you would lose dedup info? Because of that, I never copied them even though I haave room on a 2nd NAS.
So if you don’t use QuDedup on your HBS backups, everything is just backed up into folders that you can simply copy back into place. I’m not sure what happens if you use deduplication. It takes a lot more overhead so I don’t use it.
There is no such thing as a “bare metal” backup in QNAP world. I wish there was but sadly there isn’t. Snapshots, HBS backups, etc are all files you can easily access. Both have options for version control.
QTS and QuTS Hero seem to manage all of the versions transparently. You can go in and look at your latest backup and all your files are there even though it was just an incremental backup. Your backup folder does not contain 10 full copies of your backup even though it appears to look that way.
Here’s how I backup:
1.) My Macs back up to my NAS using Time Machine
2.) I have important folders sync’d from my main laptop to the NAS using QSync
3.) I have a nightly backup that backs up all my data to a second NAS.
4.) I take regular snapshots of critical folders/volumes and then vault those to my second NAS.
5.) I do a nightly backup of the most critical files to myQNAPCloud but I only have a TB there so it’s a drastically reduced data set.
6.) I do a nightly backup of most of my data (about 11TB) to iDrive where I have 20TB of space.
7.) I do a weekly backup of my Time Machine data to an external USB hard drive.
FYI - I do use QeDedup on my cloud backup. That is stored in a different manner but it is still recoverable by any QNAP NAS.
Pretty sure you can if you are not deduping the data. If you copy the whole folder structure you should be able to reattach to the backup job and recover from there. Otherwise, you can just manually go in and copy all your files back.
I was talking about the HDP (Hyper Data Protector) backups. As far as I Know they use dedup. I don’t know if they would restore if copied to another NAS.
I’m sorry. My mistake. 