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Backup to remote NAS/Home server

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Hello,

the situation is as follows: At home, I mainly used my NAS (Synology DS920+) as storage for my local backups.
Now I would like to make backups to my "home NAS" from two other remote locations. Sufficient Internet bandwidth/Static IP is available.

 

Thanks In advance!

 

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You would need to use FTP across the Internet from your other remote locations to your home NAS, including opening the necessary FTP ports in your router / firewall.

The downside to doing this is that Acronis do not support use of SFTP and your NAS will get a lot of potential attacks by having the insecure FTP ports exposed to the Internet unless you can limit the source IP addresses being allowed to connect.

I have never attempted this with my own Synology NAS as just turning on FTP and opening the router ports caused too many alerts for incoming connection attempts that I turned it all off again very quickly!

You could try using the Synology Drive Client instead of using ATI to backup directly to your NAS from the remote locations.  You would need to backup to a local destination for each of the remote systems, then create a Synology Drive Client connection from that backup destination to the NAS, so that this would then run in the background to transfer the data without needing to wait on the ATI backup task to do this.

If using ATI 2020, then be aware of the limitations of using Incremental .tibx disk backups which use only a single backup file!  This will cause a whole lot more data to be transferred across the network due to this design.