Backing Up Your Life is THIS Easy

once you get to a certain point with these all-in-one as units you're basically buying a full-fledged super compact computer except that everything you don't need for storing data has been removed and it comes with software that's optimized for storage so this one right here is basically that this is the ds9 18 plus it's got a quad core Celeron processor four gigs of ram for hard drive bays in the front and actually dual MDOT two slots which you can install SSDs in if you want to use them as a cache physically there's not much to it it's an ass so you've got dual one gig LAN ports and eSATA interface if you wanted to add additional drives off the back of the device and you've got a USB 3 port for the same purpose finally there's DC power in and a couple of 92 millimeter cooling fans drives are mounted to lessly and we're gonna be loading this thing up with four iron wolf Nazz 14 terabyte drive so that's gonna give us a total of 56 terabytes of raw storage and how much we're left with is going to depend on what level of data redundancy we configure our software with so that's it all our drives are installed hi so now what we got to do is power it up and this thing is surprisingly functional it's got everything from personal cloud backup features to the ability to use their office suite to edit and share documents they've got a mobile app that allows you to again share files you can set a password you can set a time restriction it acts as a fully functioning home media server so you can handle up to two 4k h.264 h.265 streams off of this device at once it's really amazing how far entry level you know Celeron hardware has come in the last 5-10 years and of course you can use it to protect your data so the three to one principle of data protection stipulates that you should have at least three copies of your data on at least two different storage mediums and one of them should be off-site so the big feature we're looking at today is Synology super easy off-site backup and you can do this in the cloud but the problem with the cloud is that depending on what you're trying to store and just how much freakin data it is that can get really really expensive in monthly subscription fees I mean part of the point of owning your own data is that you don't have to pay a subscription fee in order to store it or access it so this not only keeps your data safe and only in your hands instead of giving it to large cloud storage providers it also means that you can do it on the cheap all you need is a Synology nas and a friend who also has a Synology nas excuse me sir so I've gone ahead and plugged in both of my Ethernet Jack's that gives me failover in the event that you know a port on my switch dies or something like that and now I'm gonna go ahead and fire this puppy up oh I missed this before but there's another USB 3 port for expansion on the front there so the first thing we're gonna do is install the Synology assistant this is going to help us find our Synology nas on the network so you can see it shows up twice that's because we plugged in both of our ports we're gonna go ahead and connect to this one very set up install the latest DiskStation manager so this is basically their operating system it's wiping my drives right now but that's ok because these are brand new ten minutes later we're setting up our administrator account and a Quick Connect web account with Synology Quick Connect allows us to connect to external devices without setting up port forwarding which I mean obviously I can do that but for some people might be complicated so we can actually test this real quick on my phone by popping off my Wi-Fi hey now that we're fired up we're gonna head into our Storage Manager here and we're gonna create a storage pool and a volume hmm I'm gonna go for better performance and we're gonna go with the recommendation which is raid 5 that gives us three drives worth of space and we can lose up to one entire drive without losing any of our data and it's crazy to think you can have just about 40 terabytes of usable space in that how much is that going to cost you in Dropbox subscriptions its create a volume so our safe volume is created we got 36 terabytes of storage space but if we navigate to our line of solid Jina's there's nothing in there and there's no way to create a folder that's because we need to actually create our shares from within the Synology software so we're gonna go to our control panel here shared folder and create won't we call this super safe we can make this an encrypted folder encryption is good sure is all defaults there's no way to rescue this encrypted data yeah that's right one way to rescue it though would be to save this key file somewhere safe like on a USB Drive that you put a security lock box somewhere now we've got our super safe share and all we've got to do is find some data to put in it that we need to keep super safe how about some dank memes and there goes everything is working as intended these are now backed up on the network of course not everyone wants to manually select the files they want to backup so we're gonna open up the package center here and we're gonna look for the Synology drive server we're gonna install this puppy we're also going to need the Synology drive client on any computers that we want to backup so I'm go ahead and install that we verify thats Knology drive is installed on the server by going to installed we open it up just head over to team folder we're gonna use our encrypted drive here and enable this guy so we're gonna enable version control up to 32 versions yes our user account does have the appropriate permissions now we go back to the desktop software key and all of our credentials and theoretically it should connect you I'll use click connect Hey look at that now all we got to do is pick what our most important ists essential did is make sure we you know save all those pictures and you know save games as for our destination team folder super safe Linus XPS now you could just back up everything but there's a lot of stuff on a Windows PC that is not exactly essential continuous backup sure we do that whoo so the clients running which means if we pop into linus ology go to linus XPS and drill down to our pictures folder let's give this a second and it should populate all right let's give that yield refresh and boom there it all is my dank means no longer need to be manually backed up of course everyone who knows backup knows that what I have done here is not quite enough in the event of a house fire for example both my laptop and my Synology nas which as you can see is located in my house would be burned to a crisp so I want one copy of my data off-site fortunately I have friends or at least people that I pay to help me with things so I'm gonna give Jake a call and we're gonna show you guys how to take our backup that we've done here and replicate it to a buddy but without that person having access to your dank memes thanks to the magic of encryption hey Jake say bye now Andy while those guys are fooling around we can have a look at the package center there's a lot of stuff in here you can set up a mail server you can set up a plex server for example so that you can stream media to yourself anywhere throughout the house or anywhere around the world whether it's to your phone your laptop or whatever the case may be you can use it to run a surveillance system in your house you can set it up to backup selectively to a cloud service provider like a Dropbox or Google or whatever the case may be so that way you're not paying the entire bill of like you know all of your you know media backups and stuff like that if they're things that can be easily replaced you're just about ready over there okay so you want to download hyper madcap Wow regular backup isn't enough and then on my side I'm gonna download hyper backup vault and I'm basically creating a vault for you to hyper backup to you know so the use case for showing here is let's say Jake and I are tech-savvy friends or at least people that I pay and we want to kind of help each other out all we've got to do is buy an extra drive or two for each other put them in each other's NASA's and then we can act as backup targets for each other so we both have safe off-site backups without resorting to paying a cloud storage fee on a monthly basis okay I've got hyper backup okay so because we're not using Synology x' quick-connect system we're actually gonna have to port forward a tcp port now for some people this might sound a little scary but because the Synology nasa's already have UPnP we can pretty much do this automatically for most types of routers the advantage of not doing it with quick-connect is that the person on the other end won't have access to my data yeah so chances are if you're at a residential address you might have an IP address that is dynamic or changing so maybe every week or every month your IP address will actually cycle to something new now for Linus connecting to me remotely this is not good because every month or week or whatever he's gonna have to change my IP address in his settings to be able to access the files again so instead we're actually gonna set up called something called dynamic DNS now Synology includes this by default in their system and they even have their own service for it so we can just go in the software set our host name let's say Jake Nass test dot Synology dot me and we just click OK at some point here we should actually get our own domain name that's tied to my external IP address so when Linus goes to put it in on his end he can just put that domain name in and then never have to worry about it again okay so now that it's set up if we just want to go in and double check you can actually go back into the wizard and just click test connection and it should say status normal if it all worked and it looks like it did so now we can move on to actually port forwarding we're gonna head over to the router configuration tab and click setup router now this is gonna check your internal gateway to see if it can actually do the UPnP port forward there's an error but I think it worked last time anyway so it should be good to go ok we can see that it's found a UPnP compatible router which is awesome it's ubiquity something-or-other click apply now we have the router setup so now I can go in and actually create our port forwarding rule for all of the knowledge ease built in applications they actually have the port's already defined so we can just go in here and say we want to do a hyper backup vault that's gonna say our local port is 6 to 8 1 which is perfect click apply and then just click Save it's gonna do some stuff in the background with your router and theoretically when it's done we should be able to access this application remotely Hey connection okay cool so it looks like it worked now you can do stuff on your side there Linus so I'm going to backup destination remote as device and then instead of entering the server IP I'm gonna enter the server name so Jake do you want to hit me with that ok my host name is Jake Nass test dot Synology dot me now that i've entered that i'm actually going to allow jake to remote into my machine this is as far as we can tell the simplest way for him to validate the credentials for his Nazz without ever actually sharing them with me and then theoretically once enter the password we should be able to see my shared folders there we go so Jake share is where I'm gonna back up all minuses top-secret data you just hit next and the rest of it's up to you ok so now what I do here is I take my supers you know what I'm gonna take my whole super safe folder boom now I've got the ability to backup my applications obviously I could download hyper backup again from the Synology store but what I don't necessarily want to deal with again is configuring all my settings so I'm gonna go ahead and get both hyper backup and Drive server I'm gonna back those up as well I'm gonna enable a client-side encryption and I'm gonna go ahead and enter a password encryption is good so normally I would not do that oh there we go I got it on my side mine says waiting backing up here it goes yeah I see the running task here it says it's waiting to backup so far you have a total of 60 kilobytes on my system you're welcome so on my side it shows up actually is like a folder and then if I go to open the folder it has a password encryption so I think you can say if you do a backup every night it'll have them all within there so that's pretty cool so you can see I'm uploading at around 12 megabytes a second not bad yeah that's like very usable like obviously I'm not going to be backing up you know my entire library of blu-rays to Jake's house or anything like that that's kind of silly the idea is that I've already got a copy of that if I really wanted my blu-rays to be safe I'd Drive to his house and leave them there so now Jake when it comes time for me to go ahead and restore that data you want to go ahead and enter that password and see if it works boom processing sweet I see all your data oh and so it shows me two versions so that's cool because you backed up twice right oh that actually brings us to something pretty cool Synology is backup software actually makes use of something called deduplication so when you're backing up over data that has already been backed up say you've added a few photos and it runs its weekly backup it's not gonna transfer all of those let's say 10 gigabytes again so if you only added 5 megabytes of photos all its gonna do is add the new photos and leave the rest of the data intact so you don't actually have to worry about screwing up your bandwidth cap every month so that's basically it in less than an hour I was able to configure backing up my system on a regular basis to my Synology nas and backing my Synology nas up to a friend Synology nas or at least people that i pay without him or her having any access to my files but me being able to sleep better at night knowing that everything is safe somewhere off-site so massive shadow technology for sponsoring this video their hardware nas solutions are available in a broad variety of configurations and their software really does make it that easy even if you're not super tech savvy to get powerful functionality that otherwise you'd have to familiarize yourself with some command-line wizardry in order to do yeah I think so I mean if you're doing this on unread you'd be setting up our sink and cron tabs and like so go check them out at the in the video description guys giveaway remember oh that's right we've got to giveaway we're actually giving away a Synology nas and a couple of I think it was 14 terabyte drives is that right Jake yeah we're giving away a double bayonet or dual bane ass with two 14 terabyte iron wolf drives whoa so go check that out at the link in the video description as well

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Published: Fri Dec 06 2019

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[u/_Kristian_]

Shouldn't the title have 'Showcase'?