I have a client that uses it and it’s a good product. This product performs backups to various local and Cloud services and worked very well. This package had great reviews, however the simplistic interface was not for me. One of the main reasons was that using the catalog for file recovery was easier to use than the alternatives. After significant testing, I decided to update it and use it for backups. I already own this product, so I spent time determining if I wanted to continue using it or replace it with an alternate. Maybe I’ll use it for full backups down the road once it gains my trust. I ended up buying a copy of this to use strictly for synchronization with the new media server. This product costs about the same as Syncback Pro, but does support block level backups, as well as file/directory synchronization. In order to Synchronize to the CentOS server via the more secure SFTP, I needed to purchase Syncback Pro (and not SE).īeing about same price, the block level support of Syncovery put it ahead of Syncback Pro. It does not support block level backups, which I felt were important with the number of Virtual Machines I’m using. There are several versions of this product, and Syncback free has allowed me to backup across SMB shares without any problems in the past. So, let’s look at each of the packages I tried. It also turns out that dedicated backup software such as Acronis or Cloudberry don’t really support that functionality. I just wanted a source and destination synchronization of my media directories. In this case, I didn’t want incrementals or the ability to restore an old version. It slowly dawned on me that when performing occasional full backups with Syncback, what I really wanted to do was to perform file synchronization. Acronis Backup/Recovery (I already own this).Syncback (I have been using Syncback free).Disk and file backups with incremental and block level support for extra large files.Replace an existing 10/100 ethernet switch with a 10/100/1000 ethernet switch.Add a 4TB WD Red drive to the ESXi server, create a 4TB ext4 volume and attach it to the CentOS VM.

Replace the Synology with a CentOS 7 VM running on an existing ESXi server, and install Plex on it.

I’m concerned about SMB shares being trashed by a possible Cryptowall virus.

File copying is slow, and videos occasionally stutter.

The Synology server is embarassingly slow.

Acronis has failed in the past, so I need to either trust it again or dump it.

Using the Synology DS209J as a media server.

Using Syncback to occasionally copy Videos, Music and Photos to an SMB share on a Synology DS209J.

Using Acronis to backup the files on drives C, D to drive Z.

I have spent rar too much time this past week reviewing and updating the backup procedures on my development workstation.

Cloudberry server on synology