Backup Your Synology NAS to the BackBlaze Cloud with HyperBackup! // 4K TUTORIAL

This tutorial goes over how to backup your Synology NAS to the BackBlaze B2 Cloud using HyperBackup! This gives you more flexibility over your data than cloud sync does. This is important if you would like an offsite backup of your data!
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[@jayocotube6483]

Dude, this video is PURE GOLD. I would have screwed around for days trying to figure this and understand the settings. I start/paused your video through the process and I'm and running in an hour. Totally great. Thank you.

[@AndyTanguay]

THANK YOU for these. They're THE manual for Synology. Concise and to the point.

[@abargenton]

Just followed this and I have my backup running (it will take quite some time I think to back up 2TB of photos)! Thank YOU! After a close do disaster moment with a hard drive crash and almost loosing 70k photos, I now have DS720+ with SHR1 AND Backblaze...thank you for all your tutorials and guidance!

[@rustygriswold]

So glad I found the SpaceRex KZbin channel. The pace of all of your videos is spot on. The information is to the point and always accurate. Thank you. You do a fantastic job.

[@Flyers8810]

Great tutorial! I really appreciate how on your channel you go over and explain every step. So many other tutorials gloss over what they think are mundane details, and sometimes at least for me I am asking myself what, why should I choose one option over the other. Thanks again and I am learning a lot about not only NAS but networking on your channel. Keep up the great content!

[@TheClembo]

Thank you so much for this video, setup an account with BB and setup my Nas to backup, all went well without a hitch. Your video explains all steps precisely and with easy to follow instructions. Something I've needed to do for such a long time. I now have my backups configured using 3-2-1. Cheers.

[@CreatedbyZyaire]

Just want to say thank you! This step by step walk thru made this so easy!!! Happy with my Synology + Backblaze set up...

[@mitchmadness4376]

Wow thanks for the help. Would have been real tough to figure this out myself. A few minor changes on the system now on 1/13/2023 but everyone should be able to work thru them. Thanks again.

[@erwindelapena3449]

Huge help. Appreciate all you do!!

[@lloyd_talks]

As usual, great tutorial!!! KUDOS!!

[@d4veg]

Great video. For the backup password, I'd recommend using a password manager and even sharing it with a family member's account.

[@tonymwaring]

Great tutorial! Really useful thank you.

[@SpaceRexWill]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ronpulido3009]

Great tutorial. Very clear and complete. Thank you.

[@SpaceRexWill]

Glad it was helpful!

[@bboyelf18]

I'm having an issue where I'm being told that I do not have sufficient privileges to access the destination share. Do you know of any way to fix this?

[@dsebastien]

Thanks for the tutorial, very useful!

[@grailhead]

Great walkthrough, thanks.

[@jarrodgordon]

Thank you for the tutorial. It really helped out.

[@MrLopaka99]

Great tutorial. Especially the S3 setup. Thanks Very Much. Got your contact info for consultation. Keep up the excellent content.

[@toobalicious]

Good, useful information - thanks.

[@SleepCove]

This helped me a lot thanks.

[@cwr1234]

Thank you oh so much!

[@cwr1234]

Never used this before and first now I see that I could have changed the amount. Next time😉

[@pgulyas]

Absolutely great, you’re making super useful videos, thank you for that! I’ve been watching dozens of them, as I am currently building my home NAS. I was wondering if I could ask you 2 questions? I would be very grateful if you could answer! 1) Have you ever tried using iDrive as the offsite cloud backup solution? They have their own backup app within DSM, and honestly, their storage prices are super low, which is very attractive after spending a lot on the NAS and the drives... Do you maybe have any experience with this service, pro or contra? 2) You have mentioned in several of your videos that you use Time Machine to backup your Mac to the NAS. May I ask why are you not using Synology Drive’s own backup solution? Is it because of the lack of a full system backup feature (only folders), or you were dissatisfied with it, or does it have some other limitations? I would really very much appreciate if you could help me with these, but understand if you won’t. Your videos are by far the most useful, and to the point within this tech topic, I will definitely keep watching! Thanks again!

[@AaAa-je5eo]

hey, did you get any answers to your questions above? Agreed totally with your praise of spacerex, an awesome channel with so much useful content. Also wondering on the questions you had above though myself, what did you end up going with? :)

[@pgulyas]

Hi! I ended up “biting the bullet”, and subscribed to Synology’s own C2 cloud backup solution, as I had to admit that it is the most straightforward offsite backup option (iDrive turned out to be unacceptably slow). As for the Mac backup, I just use Synology’s own backup within Synology drive - it’s not a full system backup, just folder level, but I realized I wouldn’t need that anyway. :)

[@RobbyRash]

Is CloudSync a better option for just pics and movie backups? HyperBackup seem like overkill for files that will never change.

[@fruscht]

Great tutorial, tnx! I just wish HyperBackup wasn't so damn slow. After working nicely for a few weeks, I've added another folder to the backup task, and HyperBackup is now lost, it can't finish a backup. Reading online, I've seen a lot of other people complain, and no solutions. Oh, well, here's to hoping they improve it with DSM 7..

[@SpaceRexWill]

Interesting. I might just have been lucky but I have not run into that yet. Well I’ll see if I notice anything in DSM 7

[@fruscht]

@@SpaceRexWill I think I've found out what happened in my case. It's related to 8:56, and what happens is this: when you add the Drive Server app, HyperBackup will actually add the entire "homes" folder to the backup! In my case, that increased the backup size by a lot, while I thought it would only backup Drive Server settings and configuration.

[@cwr1234]

Should we use the admin account when starting hyper backup?

[@crumpecker]

Super video! I applauded for $5.00 👏👏

[@SpaceRexWill]

Wow, thanks!!!

[@MisterTomney]

What rotation should I setup for a 4TB backup, want to keep costs low as possible? I have it set as your tutorial states at the moment, Smart Recycle with 256 kept versions.

[@IAmCharliemouse]

Thanks for the tutorial! I'm confused that there are two different places to define a retention policy, Backblaze and HyperBackup. How do they interact?

[@wyattarich]

Backblaze will NOT let you delete things within the retention policy time, even if HyperBackup tries to delete them. The inverse is not true, you can delete HyperBackup files in the Backblaze storage bucket from their web interface, or using anything else with access to that storage bucket. Ideally you'd have them set at the same retention length so that backups older than the retention time would be able to be pruned to save cost.

[@PatrickBijvoet]

Hi Wil, does the personal backup of backblaze work the same way? Do you know that? Because it is for private individuals as me far more cheaper.

[@nApucco]

Just a warning: DO NOT backup Synology Drive Server! It will not only backup your settings and old versions but also ALL shared folders. This can cause situations where in the folder selection you specifically didn't want to backup something, but since it's also a shared folder Hyper Backup will still back it up through the Drive Server app.

[@74bossman]

In the backup destination settings after choosing "v4", you now have to choose between virtual hosted style or path style. I assume we should select virtual hosted. Is that correct?

[@justinknash]

Yes, I went with virtual host. My problem is now the network speed from the NAS to Backblaze B2 is really slow. I have Google Fiber 1Gbps and only getting around 7-10MB/s (70Mbps). Not great, gonna take forever.

[@theloniousMac]

Can you do both? Cloud Sync for remote access for WFH peeps and backup for backup?

[@erwindelapena3449]

Thanks!

[@SpaceRexWill]

Hey thanks!

[@jasonhobbs2225]

Really nice tutorial, good explanation of the difference between CloudSync and HyperBackup as well. I set this up on my Synology last night after struggling to get good info on the difference and how to set up specifics like bucket lifecycle and the rotation settings. Now I've seen this I'm able to go change lifecycle settings on the the bucket and it looks like I'll be able to set up rotation settings after my first backup completes (I think it's going to take several days... 1.1TB might take a while :) ) Thanks so much for a great video with good explanations! I'm still not quite sure _exactly_ how the rotation settings 'work' and what the practical implications are. Maybe you have an explanation of that too. I assume the first backup is everything and then subsequent backups are differential or incremental... I'm wondering what happens if I delete a large file... will it stay on the first backup, or will it be removed eventually with a mixture of rotation and lifecycle settings?

[@jasondavis2093]

Hi, great instructional videos as always SpaceRex.....so is the Backblaze account the 'Personal Backup' or 'B2 Cloud Storage' selection on the Backblaze website. Your link takes you to the 'Personal Backup' selection.....is that correct..?

[@jasondavis2093]

Question has been answered a while ago....B2 Cloud Storage it seems

[@scottelsdon5547]

Good tutorial, written in Jan 21. I set up mine with DSM 7 in Jan 22, something's in back-blaze have moved, but its still pretty easy to realise where they are. With DSM7 though I couldn't find the Synology Drive Server item to back that up !?

[@iannickerson922]

Great video. Can you add other folders in the volum1 after initial backup?

[@SpaceRexWill]

Yes

[@geoffreywoytt]

Curious if enabling Hyper Backup's backup rotation (smart recycle) with the 30 days of lifecycle retention enabled on Backblaze is redundant and/or would it cause the amount of data to grow out of hand?

[@SleepCove]

Can you change your lifecycle settings after setup? Thanks for the great video!

[@SpaceRexWill]

Yes you can change this all after the fact!

[@paulharrysadventures4050]

Is there any difference using hyperbackup with backblaze to Google Drive?

[@bnm123z]

Great tutorial. Question - your affiliate link takes me to the Personal Backup solution instead of B2 Cloud Storage. Which is the correct product for the solution you have presented in this video? Thanks!

[@SpaceRexWill]

For this you want to use B2, link must be broken

[@ShanyGolan]

@spacerex need solution to backup plex media files (movies/shows) b2 will be crazy here.

[@jimholloway1785]

Are you still using BackBlaze for your Synology files and/or for your TrueNas files?

[@SpaceRexWill]

For my offsite cloud backup I have switched to synology C2. I don’t get a discount or anything but I have just found it is more bullet proof

[@jimholloway1785]

@@SpaceRexWill Thanks for the update

[@notreallyme425]

After watching this and your other video that covered snapshots, I think snapshots would be better for quickly recovering individual files and Hyper Backup is best for catastrophic loss of data or complete NAS failure (especially if the snapshots are lost). So, use both with this being a good offsite backup in the “3-2-1” backup strategy. Am I missing something?

[@filmakingproductions]

This tutorial was super helpful when I used it to setup my back blaze B2 with my NAS a few months ago. It's been working really well until recently it decided to stop backing up my chosen folders. It says the target is offline and I can't figure out how to re-connect it again. Backblaze support weren't much help either. Do you have any solutions?

[@SpaceRexWill]

That’s really weird. First I would check your DNS settings on the Synology. Then I would setup a new account and shared key

[@tanguy19]

@spacerex : i used to backup with hyperback. The only Synology's solution for encrypting datas. I recently had problem with this package: One disk of my raid6 had 6 had sectors.Backups failed.... Even with changing the disk, couldn't resume the task and had to erase everything, delete and recreate the task... So if I have a "real" problem on my RAID it can corrupt the save.... Which means I (we) can lose evrything. Do you know if there is a way to recover this file format/database? For myself I prefer using Active Backup and data replication. But it doesn't offer encryption for now... (Except on share with mounting/unmounting)

[@tanguy19]

And I have more than 100To to backup..

[@andreas.lugert]

Hello Spacerex, question regarding backup rotation: The difference between "from the earliest version" and "smart recycle" are pretty clear, but does the smart recycle option not use more space on your NAS, simply because it stores / keeps more versions of files compared to the first option? I mean smart recycle makes sense if you really have to access files from months ago, but if you just want to have a versioning of your files I think the first option makes more sense. What do you think?

[@SpaceRexWill]

The smart recycle will use more space if you compare number of versions (last 10 versions) as there will be more from longer ago. The smart recycle uses less storage when you look at how far back you want to go

[@andreas.lugert]

@@SpaceRexWill Thanks man - have a great day and stay safe and healthy.

[@crumpecker]

Can I backup my Synology to MyCloud NAS which is in the same building on the same network or will this only work with USB drives?

[@SpaceRexWill]

You are going to want to use hyper backup and there are options for Rsync, WEBDAV, and S3 so if you can setup MyCloud to act as one of those then yes you can

[@DiyintheGhetto]

How can we backup say to a smb backup from say Linux of some kind?

[@SpaceRexWill]

I have a video on 'backup to raspberryPi with hybperbackup' which is exactly what you are looking for. Has the full how to using rsync

[@DiyintheGhetto]

@@SpaceRexWill I have a snyology And a xpenology. I would love to back up them to my offsite Linux server.

[@justinknash]

. @SpaceRex Is the backup network speed from the NAS to Backblaze B2 really slow? I have Google Fiber 1Gbps and only getting around 7-10MB/s (70Mbps). Not great, gonna take forever.

[@SpaceRexWill]

That’s odd. I wonder if it is the S3 protocol overhead. I have not tested backblaze with really fast Ethernet, but have had clients going to C2 at 500mbit speeds

[@crumpecker]

How would you restore if your Synology is completely destroyed? How would you get back to the BackBlaze backup to restore to another device or another Synology?

[@SpaceRexWill]

You would simply get hyper backup on your new NAS and link it and restore

[@JohnDoe-jz7bj]

Like, do the same procedure again? Thank you.

[@ThomasAgain]

@spacerex, so I took your recommendation awhile back on another one of your videos to do my backup through Backblaze Cloud Sync. Would you recommend with the new S3 API capability with HyperBackup, should I just get rid of the CloudSync bucket so I am not paying monthly for both? Would it be smart (although not cost efficient) to backup to both? I don't really ever need to access my files (outside of network) on BackBlaze (which I understand is an advantage of the CloudSync method), I would just use Synology Drive for that. Is there any advantages to the CloudSync where I would want to continue using both? If I do maintain both and I have a catastrophic failure, which bucket would I use to restore, HyperBackup? For what its worth, I have around 10TB of data if that figures into this equation. As always, thx for the vids and all your help. Great to see you have added almost 20% more subs since I subscribed, well deserved!

[@SpaceRexWill]

If you don't need the external access to the files then Hyperbackup is a ton better. I would honestly just start a new and go with Hyperbackup.

[@ThomasAgain]

Thx for the suggestion! Do you know if this would this be quicker to restore from with 10TB of data vs Cloud Sync or roughly the same? Do you know if they offer the option to get the hard drive sent to you so it’s quicker that’s redownloading 10TB?

[@wyattarich]

@@ThomasAgain Cloud sync would likely cost more since it'll be transferring more individual files. I can't speak for the speed but it's probably around the same time.

[@ShanyGolan]

The cost though...

[@SpaceRexWill]

That’s why I would recommend backing up your critical files such as family photos. It’s totally up to what you need backed up

[@ShanyGolan]

@@SpaceRexWill I use a different way though. 1. Nas -> usb backup with hyperbackup 2. Windows -> Synology drive sync from Nas (download only) -> backblaze personal backup watches this folder ;) This saves cost on b2