This is easily installed with a single click via the Synology Package Manager. So to backup to B2, I’m using the Synology Cloud Sync application. Fosstodon has a limit of 500 characters and that wasn’t going to cut it, so I decided to write a post instead. So you want to backup a Synology to Backblaze B2? Well, so does my friend and Fosstodon co-founder, Mike Stone who asked for more detail around how I backup to Backblaze B2 storage. This post explains how I configured that. I recently wrote a post about moving from Nextcloud to Synology, in that post I mention how I’m backing up to Backblaze B2. I wish Backblaze had a simple desktop client for it's B2 services for basic file backup.Home About Contact Microblog Search More. I run Duplicati on my home server because it is free. You would want to make sure your NAS manufacturer offers something similar or you will need to find and likely pay for a 3rd party client. If it's a synology NAS you should be able to use the synology cloudsync. The other gotcha with B2 is that they do not offer a backup client to the best of my knowledge. They also offer options to have your data sent back to you on an HD or NAS in the event that you need all of your data quickly. Fortunately we have always been able to recover from local backups so we never have had to worry about this cost. There is an additional bandwidth fee to recover your files after 1gb.

I would consider it for home use but never suggest it as an enterprise solution. (The problem I have relying on that method is you are one ToS update away from no more backups. This is by far the cheapest solution I have found outside of backblaze for desktop use and finagling a non server OS into the loop.

Backblaze for synology