Active Backup for Business Introduction | Synology Webinar

In this video, you will learn how to use Synology's Active Backup for Business software to back up various platforms like PCs, virtual machines, and data stored in the cloud. A proper backup strategy is essential in today's business environment, and with Synology’s Active Backup Suite you can centralize management and properly organize your backups.

[crazychatting]

New drinking game: drink every time a shot when he says “active backup for business”. Please have a buddy who backs you up!

[takacsi]

I really like this product, but I would have a bit more settings. For example exception for the system volume (page file, temps, etc), select folder option for customized volumes, and I know this is not secure, but why I cant backup an smb share what is does not request user/pass because shared for everyone. Thank you for you support!

[birdbird]

Hi Synology Team,
Server address text field able to use DDNS instead of IP address?

[Goettscheeric]

Hello, I am new to the NAS/Synology world. Wanting to purchase a DS923+ to keep at my house to use as an offsite back up for my business server. Is this possible without purchasing a second NAS to keep at my business? I already have my server data at my office backed up and RAIDed at my office and don't really want to spend more money than I need to. Thank you!

[sjaflix]

Did you address the prerequisite that BTRFS is required for ABB? I missed it if you did. I troubleshooted ABB for a long time before I became aware of this issue.

[aofgrant]

Please add Hyper-V support, then I can say goodbye to VEEAM and invest that spend in Synology instead!

[johnhart]

You should note that this isn't available for all Synology NAS devices.

[tornadotj]

I found an issue I cannot find a workaround for. With many solutions like this, such as Windows Server Essentials, the backup server can send a WOL message to the client to take it out of sleep, then the client keeps it awake during the backup. Using this, a WOL is never sent, so I can't back up a sleeping PC in the middle of the night, and if I manually fire off the backup, the PC goes to sleep before it finishes. Synology needs to support WOL and their client needs to prevent sleep before this is what I would consider a finished product.

[tombouie]

Thks again & request an update to your great overview

[MDMiller]

You didn't discuss backing up the NAS to USB portable external drives.

[stevenjohns]

Limiting it to just VMWare when a large percentage of the industry have other Hypervisors is a bit short sighted - especially as this is targeted at SMB's who wouldn't have VMWare.

[rkmacdonald]

I can't find COMPLETE instructions on how to delete everything, including the device, all tasks, and all data, when a PC is taken out of service permanently, so that the data space is now available to be used by other devices. I've managed to delete everything, but the space the old device used seems to be still used.

[rkmacdonald]

In my version of Active Backup for Business, when creating a task, there is no option 'bare metal backup' like what is shown in the video.


In my version there is an choice for 'Entire device' and a sub-choice for 'backup external drive'? What exactly does that mean? For instance, what does 'entire device' include? And, does 'external drive' include external USB drives? Or is it only the drive(s) connected to the motherboard other than the C: drive?

[pmidevelopers]

What permissions does the backup folder need for users?

[ahmadsyaukani]

what i am using Synology DS218+ and DS216J, but DS216J only support Backup Data For Server. it's Backup Data for server same with Backup data for bussines?

[shinjixyz]

Blue raspberry? I thought it was called Blueberry...

Nice video for a nice program !

edit: Blue raspberry is a common flavoring for candy, snack foods, syrups, and soft drinks. The flavor ostensibly originates from Rubus leucodermis, more commonly known as the "whitebark raspberry" or "blue raspberry" for the blue-black color of its fruit.

[tiw]

Just been thinking what is the difference of synology Drive, Cloud sync, and ABB

[Grengis]

Please add the ability to backup to an encrypted store!

[HisLoveArmy]

For some reason active backup is not in the package center, any idea why?

[abdellahtalib]

I WANT TO ACTIVATE THE ACTIVE BACKUP FOR BUSINESS SOFTWARE AND I DON'T HAVE THE REQUEST ID