The risk posed by advanced cyber threats and hardware failures for businesses is growing day by day. Backing up company data securely is one of the most fundamental steps to ensure business continuity. Synology's Active Backup for Business solution meets the data protection needs of corporate enterprises at this very point, without any extra software license costs.
Kısa özet: Synology Active Backup for Business, uç cihazlar, fiziksel sunucular ve sanal makineler için yedekleme görevlerini merkezi bir konsoldan yönetir. Sağlıklı tasarımda hedef yalnızca yedek almak değil; geri dönüş süresini, saklama politikasını ve off-site kopyayı birlikte planlamaktır.
What is Active Backup for Business?
Synology Active Backup for Business (ABB) is a comprehensive and centralized data protection platform specifically developed for virtual machines (VM), physical servers, file servers, as well as PC and Mac computers.
Why Should You Use It?
- Unlimited Device Backup: Perform backups for any number of Macs, PCs, physical devices, servers, virtual environments (VMware and Hyper-V), and file servers without license restrictions.
- High Efficiency: Thanks to incremental backup and global deduplication technologies, you achieve significant savings in both backup times and storage space usage on the device.
- Centralized Management Ease: Easily monitor and manage backup processes, task status, and potential alerts for all your different IT environments through a single management console.
- Disaster Recovery: Securely replicate your critical backups to an offsite Synology NAS device in a different location, establishing robust security against system failures and disaster scenarios.
Pre-Installation Tips
Before starting the installation, certain factors should be considered to ensure the system is configured correctly:
- Calculate the most suitable initial storage size, taking into account the volume of data to be backed up.
- For the data deduplication feature to function, the Btrfs file system must be set up, and the NAS architecture must be x64-bit.
- At least 4GB RAM is recommended for optimal performance and transfer speeds.
- Since data deduplication is not supported on shared folders with quotas (quota limits), the use of quota-applied folders should be avoided.
- Currently, hardware or software-encrypted shared folders cannot be used as backup targets for PCs, physical servers, or virtual machines.
Doğru ABB Tasarımı İçin Karar Tablosu
| İhtiyaç | Önerilen Yaklaşım | Operasyonel Not |
|---|---|---|
| Çok sayıda PC/Mac | Agent tabanlı merkezi görev şablonları | Departmanlara göre farklı saklama politikası ve yedekleme saati tanımlanır. |
| Fiziksel sunucu | İmaj tabanlı bare-metal kurtarma | Kurtarma medyası önceden hazırlanmalı ve yılda en az bir kez test edilmelidir. |
| VMware / Hyper-V | Değişen blok takibi ve uygulama tutarlı yedekler | Kritik VM'ler için RPO/RTO hedefi ayrıca belirlenmelidir. |
| Ransomware dayanıklılığı | Snapshot, replikasyon ve off-site kopya | Yedek NAS erişimleri ayrı admin hesabı ve MFA ile korunmalıdır. |
Geri Dönüş Testi Yapmadan Yedekleme Tamamlanmış Sayılmaz
Yedekleme görevlerinin yeşil görünmesi tek başına yeterli değildir. Her kritik sistem için dosya bazlı geri dönüş, tam cihaz geri dönüşü ve sanal makine ayağa kaldırma senaryoları düzenli aralıklarla test edilmelidir. Synology'nin Active Backup Suite yaklaşımı, merkezi görev yönetimi, incremental yedekleme, tekilleştirme ve hızlı geri dönüş seçeneklerini bir araya getirir; ancak kurum içinde bu özelliklerin RPO/RTO hedefleriyle eşleştirilmesi gerekir.
How to Perform Backups?
PCs, Macs, and Physical Servers
Endpoints and servers are backed up via the dedicated Active Backup for Business Agent software installed on the device. Once the agent is installed, the device is automatically discovered and included in a default template-based backup task.
- Restoration Flexibility: You can restore the entire operating system, applications, and user settings as a 'bare-metal' recovery via recovery media, or quickly download individual files or folders through the self-service Recovery Portal. Physical servers also support instant restoration options to VMware and Hyper-V.
Virtual Machines
The system offers direct, agentless backup for popular virtual environments (VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V). By entering your hypervisor credentials into the console, virtual machine data replication begins immediately.
Shared File Servers and Linux Devices
You can easily integrate standard file servers via Rsync or SMB, or Linux devices running the agent, into the ABB panel and trigger scheduled or manual tasks.
Conclusion
Synology Active Backup for Business panel, in addition to the cost advantage it provides, is designed to fully comply with enterprise-level disaster scenarios. Ensuring your data is safe and remaining unaffected by ransomware or data loss is only possible through proactive planning of this nature.
You can consult our expert team for more detailed information about our Synology devices, data protection strategies, or cloud-based hybrid business solutions.