Hi there,

I just ran across your review, thanks for providing it!

I need to upgrade a very old Synology box at a small business and it seems I might be able to kill two birds with one stone by using Synology backup to replace the expensive system the business is currently using, which is Unitrends.

A couple of questions if you don't mind.

The current Unitrends systems creates local agent based and VMWare backups and also syncs these up with a secondary cloud backup that can be used for recovery if there is a business situation that destroys all the onsite backups. Is this possible with Synology?

Second question. You comment on VM restore options using SSH.... is it not possible to simply restore a VM to a VMWare host using the same connection that is used to create the backup in the first place?

Thanks.

So sorry for the delay in replying JC Hammer! I had the email notification in my inbox to prompt me, but it's been hectic!

For offsite there's two options. You can natively sync to a second NAS using "Snapshot Replication." You can Cloud Sync to replicate to cloud storage (e.g. Amazon S3 compatible, Azure, etc.)

So, yes you can restore your VMs back to the original hypervisor no problem. I sort of take that as a given. I call our being able to restore VMs directly on the NAS because it opens up a business continuity option of "Oh no, the vmware host has died! Let's spin up the VMs on the NAS to keep us going until it's fixed/replaced."

Thanks for the information. I think it probably makes sense to give this a solution a shot. The only real added expense for the business is they will need more drive space to handle the backups.