![]() ![]() Now, this may result in you using more storage within your B2 bucket, but the cost probably won’t be significant. Instead, Backblaze treats duplicated files as a new version. Cloud Sync will not overwrite your finances file with the new revisions. ![]() You add your monthly finances for January, then again in February. Let’s say you have a spreadsheet you use to manage your finances. And if you delete a file, that deletion will not be synced. Set this option to “ Upload Local Changes Only” and check the box that says “ Don’t remove files in the destination folder…” Using both of these settings means that files will only sync one way - up to Backblaze. If you lose either of these, you will not be able to retrieve your data! Sync Direction Settings Keep both the certificates and passphrase safe. Once configured, Synology will download certificates so you can decrypt your data later. You will be asked to configure and encryption passphrase. This means that all of your data is encrypted at rest, so nobody except you can access it. When setting up the B2 backup routine, it’s very important to ensure encryption is enabled. Here is a screenshot of the configuration for one of my B2 backup routines: What I will do though, is show you how I’ve configured my backups and what those settings mean. I’m not going to take you through the process step by step, as it’s pretty straightforward. Multimedia files aren’t crucial and can be replaced, so I’m comfortable with just having local backups for that. I tend to make sure that my crucial data is still available, even if I lose all my local data. I could backup all the media on my Synology, but that would be very expensive. Personally I backup all user home folders, as well as our Family Share folder to B2. 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.
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