Synology NAS backup
Gopher Backup runs as a package on DSM 6 and 7 and sends an encrypted, versioned copy of your NAS offsite — so fire, theft, a failed controller or ransomware can't take every copy at once.
Included in every plan · Your NAS counts as one device
The problem
A Synology is the best thing most people have ever done for their data — fast local storage, snapshots, redundancy across disks. It solves a real problem.
It just doesn't solve this one. Every copy still lives in the same box, in the same room, on the same power circuit. RAID keeps you running when a disk dies, and that's genuinely valuable, but it's a different job from backup.
RAID survives a failed disk. It does not survive:
The 3-2-1 rule exists for exactly this reason: three copies, two kinds of storage, one of them somewhere else. The NAS can be two of those three. It can't be the third.
How it works
No PC has to be switched on, and nothing has to be mapped as a network drive first. The client runs on DiskStation Manager and talks to our storage directly.
Works on DSM 6 and 7. Takes a few minutes, no command line needed.
Pick exactly what leaves the building — photos, documents, media, whatever matters. Leave out what you can easily replace.
AES-256 on the NAS before anything goes out, so your data is already encrypted in transit and at rest.
Backups run on schedule. If the NAS was offline when one was due, it picks up the next time it's available.
What you get
Every plan keeps one year of version history. If ransomware encrypts a share on Thursday, Wednesday's copy is still there.
AES-256 applied on the NAS, not after upload. Your files are never in the clear outside your own network.
Primary and replica on servers we own and run, plus a third copy offsite in another region. One site can't take everything.
Synology backup comes with every plan. The NAS simply counts as one of your plan's devices.
Your primary copy sits on hardware we own and operate, not on capacity rented from a larger provider and resold.
Support comes from the people who run the servers. No ticket queue, no scripted first tier.
Worth knowing
If you're sending several terabytes offsite for the first time, that initial backup will run for days or weeks depending on your upload speed. This is true of every offsite backup service, and it's worth planning for rather than being surprised by.
After that first pass, only changes go out, and ongoing backups are small and quick. If you have a particularly large library, get in touch before you start and we'll talk through the best way to seed it.
Questions
DSM 6 and DSM 7.
No. Synology NAS backup is included in every plan, and the NAS counts as one of your plan's devices.
Snapshots are excellent for undoing mistakes quickly, and they'll save you more often than an offsite backup will. But they live on the same unit. Anything that affects the whole device — theft, fire, a controller failure, ransomware with sufficient access — takes the snapshots with it.
Yes. Each NAS counts as one device, so it depends on how many devices your plan covers.
One year, on every plan.
Primary and replica copies on servers we own and operate, plus a third copy offsite in a different region.
It runs at the next opportunity. Nothing needs restarting by hand.
Fourteen days free, no contract. If your NAS is the only place your files exist, that's the gap worth closing first.
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