Use Case This Time: Backing Up to Multiple Online Storage Accounts
When using a NAS, you may often hear about cases where “personal folders are created and each person saves their files under those folders.” In such situations, there may be cases where you also “want to back up/synchronize each folder under a separate account when backing up/synchronizing to cloud storage.”
This time, I checked whether it is actually possible to back up/synchronize to different cloud storage accounts for each folder, and I would like to share my findings here.
Preparation on the Cloud Storage Side
For this test, I will use “Google Drive, which provides free space when you create an account.”
Since I already have several existing Google accounts, I will use those for testing.
Also, I will not discuss the backup/sync capacity here. I will focus solely on the point of “whether backup/sync is possible to multiple Google Drive accounts.”
Installing HBS 3 and Adding Cloud Storage
Access the QNAP NAS settings screen and install HBS 3 from the App Center.
If you enter “hbs” or similar in the search box, the application will appear, so install it.
Once the installation is complete, click the “Open” button to open the settings screen.
When the settings screen opens, move to “Storage Space.”
After moving to Storage Space, click “Create.”
Select “Google Drive,”
Choose the account,
and add it.
Allow HBS 3 to access Google Drive.
Click “Create” to add the first account.
It will also be displayed in the list of storage spaces.
Add the second account in the same way.
It was added like this. If two accounts work, three or four should also be fine.
Performing the Backup
Under the Public folder, create folders named “yukihito” and “test,” and create some dummy data as backup targets.
I created them like this.
Both are around 50MB or less.
Create a backup task and execute the backup.
Move to “Backup & Restore” in HBS 3 and click “Backup Now.”
Back up the “Public\test” folder
to the test account.
Back up the yukihito folder
to the yukihito account.
With HBS 3, you can “execute another backup job after the previous backup job is finished,” so after the test backup is done, proceed with the yukihito backup.
The backup jobs have been created, so click “Backup Now” for the test one to run it manually.
After a while, both backups completed successfully.
From the above, it is clear that it is possible to back up from a QNAP NAS to separate accounts on cloud storage.
Summary
This time, I shared the results of verifying whether it is possible to back up from a QNAP NAS to separate accounts on the same cloud storage service. (Sync should also be no problem.)
There were no particularly difficult parts, and you should be able to set up and execute the backup as usual.
Also, if you run them simultaneously, there is a possibility that you may saturate your internet bandwidth, but since you can chain backup tasks, you don’t have to worry about bandwidth being saturated.
With this kind of setup, QNAP NAS is designed to be operated flexibly.
