Synology Hyper Backup: Data Archiving and Retention Utility
Synology Hyper Backup is a tool or a utility that permits you to back up various types of data on your NAS device. You can do it manually or schedule the same. These various kinds of data include system configurations, shared folders, and packages. The backup can be stored in local shared folders or remote servers. You are also free to store this data on public clouds.
The major benefit of this utility is that each backup task stored there can retain numerous versions. Not only this but, the automatic rotation is done and the oldest backup version gets deleted. It is generally called the Smart Recycle or Customized Retention Policy. However, all this acts according to the configuration of your NAS. But, for now, let’s move ahead and discuss the features and components of this utility.
Features of Synology Hyper Backup
You can call Hyper Backup utility as an ultimate backup solution for folders, packages, Logical Unit Number plus the entire NAS system. The reason being it helps you gain access to the precious data stored from various points in time and finally restore all of them to different locations. Jotted down here are a few more features and benefits of the Hyper backup application:
- It prevents data duplication and hence reduces storage usage.
- The Synology Hyper Backup tool provides the user with a flexible data backup schedule to complete different backup requirements.
Specifications of Hyper Backup Tool
The previous section made you familiar with the features offered by Synology Hyper Backup utility. In this section, we will talk about the specifications of this tool with the help of the table given below:
| Specification | Description |
|---|---|
| Backup source | Entire system, folders, files, and Local Unit Numbers Packages and system configurations |
| Backup destination | Remote Synology NAS and Synology C2 Storage for the entire system backup Local shared folders, external drivers, resync servers for other backup tasks Synology C2 storage, Dropbox, Microsoft Azure, Google Drive, OpenStack Swift, Rackspace, HiDrive, S3 Storage and other S3-compatible backup destinations (Public cloud services) |
| Reduces storage usage | Storage usage gets reduced with file-level deduplication and incremental backup for packages Block-level deduplication and incremental backup for the complete system |
| Retains 65, 535 versions of backup data | Earlier versions get rotated when total versions reach the defined limit Smart Recycle helps to keep the earliest version created every time Customized retention policy retains data and its versions according to different needs |
| Abnormal storage usage alert | It is done via email as it defines threshold values for storage usage |
Apart from the aforementioned specifications, the Synology Hyper Backup utility provides the user with an adjustable time scale that helps him/her to monitor data usage statistics. It also creates a blacklist of file names and extensions for each backup task. To add further, it has logs of file manipulations that include adding, converting, and deleting actions. The Hyper Backup tool performs the data and index integrity check for detecting the corrupted data in the previous versions thereby enhancing backup and restoration availability. The tool offers multi-version explorer on the DiskStation manager so that you can easily browser, download, and restore files and their versions via the find.synology.com login address.
Limitations: Synology Hyper Backup Tool
After discussing the features and specifications of the backup tool, let us now have a look at a few limitations so that you can decide whether to use the tool or not:
- The Hyper Backup tool requires your backup destination to possess storage equal to or greater than 8 GB.
- This tool does not support backup through USB flash drive or other external devices.
- You can run only one backup task at a time with the help the utility. Other tasks will get added in a queue and will start only after the completion of the previous one.
- The backup files are stored in the “.hbk” format. It means you can read them with the help of Hyper Backup only. Apart from this, Hyper Backup vault and explorer will help you read them.
- The task names may include 1 to 32 unicode characters. But, not !@#$%^&*()_+={}[]<>|\.
The Final Words
That’s all about the Synology Hyper Backup tool. Let us hope that you have walked through the post carefully and have understood what the tool is for. So, use it carefully for Synology NAS data management.
