

#ARQ BACKUP TO CLOUD ON SYNOLOGY FULL#
For this purpose I am using Carbon Copy Cloner with another external harddrive.īy this strategy, the worst that can happen is that my full backup of applications and settings is around 4 weeks old, but at the same time I have the most recent work backed-up as described in Nr. Last but not least I would like to have another image avilable as a last resort if all of the solutions above will fail and I can restore a fairly recent working state in an acceptable amount of time. At work I have a SSD directly connected to my external monitor so I event do not have to think about connecting the backup device and I have another image I can rely on. This ensures a fast and smooth production of the latest image. For this purpose I connect an external SSD device (Samsung T5 1 TB) via USC-C directly to my machine. To complement this backup strategy of core files and folders I am aining at having at least one full backup with the help of the built-in TimeMachine backups. But as soon as I have internet access the adaptes files will be stored. Hourly is not meant literally since I am not online and working all the time. The Arq symbols signals its activity and by that I can be sure that no progress is lost no matter what will happen.

Sometimes a re-authentication with the cloud-provider of your choice is required. After defining the files and folders which should be included in your backup, you do no thave to interfere with the application anymore. Arq supports end-to-end encryptions and you can restore files states back in time.
#ARQ BACKUP TO CLOUD ON SYNOLOGY SOFTWARE#
For this purpose I use the software Arq (7) in combination with cloudhosting included in a O365 subscription. If you go with Synology, use SHR1 and btrfs with data integrity enabled. They have a free backup tool for Windows, but not macOS. While I used to do this on a local Synology-NAS with BitTorrentSync/Resilio Sync I have nowadays switched to a complete cloud-based approach. No experience of Arq, I use the standard Windows backup tools to backup to the Synology and then use Hyper Backup on the Synology (connected to Backblaze B2) to do a cloud backup. My backup-strategy has three components.Īlready some years ago I started to store core files and folders in an incremental backup approach each hour. Actually, the easy backup and transfer of settings and data is one of the major benefits of working with Mac OS.

In this posting I will briefly describe my approach for the backup of data under the MacOS operating system. If your productice work is 100% happening in digital environments the secure and reliable backup of data becomes a necessity and data-loss can have serious implications for all kind of processes.
