Hi there, I hope someone can help. I am quite new to NAS’s, even newer to QNAP.
After years of having my data on Google Drive I am trying to move to local storage. I have 3 datasets of approximately 14TB, 15TB, and 5TB - and always growing.
I purchased two TS-873AeU. 6 x Seagate EXOS 22TB in RAID 6 in each NAS. Running QuTS Hero, latest version (5.2.5.3161).
I use QSync to sync selected datasets to local SSD storage on my workstation - works fine.
I use Snapsync so as NAS001 makes a copy of itself on NAS002 - works great.
I have Snapshots set up too.
Ideally I would like to use software on the NAS like HBS 3 or some other app, to achieve daily incremental off-site backups.
I have the following problems, and any help will be hugely appreciated.
Daily off-site incremental backup. Ideally I would achieve this with something like HBS 3 backup and send the backups straight to Backblaze or similar. BUT HBS3 makes FULL backups each time it runs on a schedule, rather than incremental backups.
Immutable snapshots. QNAP support tells me it can’t be done. But suuureely it can !?!
HBS3 sync to Backblaze B2 - I have tried making Macrium Reflect backups of my NAS (painfully slow to do that BTW) and syncing the Marcium files to B2. It syncs all but the last file, and then basically just freezes on the last file, taking a day to sync a few GB’s. Anyone else had that issue? How to get around it?
Has anyone else achieved the daily off-site incremental backups using software on the QNAP NAS, or do you do that some other way?
First of all, HBS does incremental backups on schedules. I do it every day both locally and to the cloud. I’m not sure why you think it only does full backups. That is incorrect.
You can definitely do what you want with Backblaze. I would check out QNAPs MyQNAPCloud service. The drive space there is very reasonable and you don’t pay for usage.
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Snapshots are really not meant to be your immutable backups. If you have data that you want to be sure is immutable, set up a WORM shared folder/volume and store your data there. You can snapshot that folder as well. If snapshots were immutable, it would eventually eat up all your disk space.
That’s good to know you have HBS doing incremental backups on schedule. I had read that it could be done, but my setup performs a full backup each time. I’ll get QNAP Support to help me work out what I have done wrong.
My QNAP Cloud - great idea, I’ll try that. I hadn’t thought of that (B2 has always been my go-to).
Yeh immutable snapshots on schedule and with an immutability expiry date is something my Synology NAS has, which is why I was wondering if you can do the same on QNAP. I appreciate its not really a backup (I consider Snapshots to be a safety net rather than a backup) - but being able to keep snapshots immutable for a short time is just a nice little feature sometimes. Also with the immutability expiry date it means you don’t end up with your storage completely filled (although I did once have to wait for a month to delete stuff on my Synology
I just set up a new backup job and I made sure version control is turned on.
It is definitely working now to do incremental backups!! I did some tests by adding files to the folder, then running backup, and checking the logs and the total file sizes it is only doing incremental backups.
Thank you so much, you have saved me going even more grey and losing even more hair !!!
Now I guess I could run the backups so as the destination is a WORM folder, and then I have got all the immutability in the world?? I’ll check though, that when I am done with keeping that backup, I can just delete the whole WORM folder…
