Time Machine will continue to make backups until the storage space is completely filled. But, for me, ABB's ability to customize what data is retained and how much data is retained makes it much more appealing. Differences between the way data is stored makes ABB faster for finding and restoring large amounts of data. Synology's solution is significantly more sophisticated. Time Machine is fine for what it is-I use it-but it has not been updated by Apple and remains a rather blunt instrument compared to Active Backup for Business. My understanding is that the hold up is convincing Apple to give them access to certain processes. I too am looking forward to Active Backup for Business (ABB) coming to the Mac, though it does seem as though Synology has gone from saying it will be coming to saying that they hope it is coming. The Synology is locally backed up to USB and critical network data is replicated to the cloud in a near 3-2-1 system.
SYNOLOGY CLOUD STATION BACKUP FOR MAC PC
For ABB (starting in DSM 6, upgraded to 7) I have all VMs back up through VMware and PC desktops back up through native agent. I have 3 desktops, 1 PC laptop, and 1 Mac laptop.
My homelab has around 40 total nodes, mixture of physical and VM (vSAN+HA). Sense of scale: I'm no enterprise, but I have more gear than most small businesses.
SYNOLOGY CLOUD STATION BACKUP FOR MAC OFFLINE
The biggest thing for me with a native macOS ABB client would be the ability for it to just be in ABB and not have to worry about a sparesbundle, so if the Mac were offline for a period of time, it's old backups could be scavanged server side if needed without said Mac being attached. And because it wasn't the only data on said share, my virtual backup image has multiple times tombstoned itself into being read only.Īpple doesn't trust your remote filesystem to be compliant with all of their attributes, so they just throw a multipart container (sparesbundle) sized to your disk's then-current free space, and it doesn't always manage scavanging that space well. Now I'm not going to come in here and say ABB is a flawless product - it's got plenty of issues, once I get a few moments i may write to Syno about a few of them to see what they say.īut that said, I literally have to have an entirely separate share for Time Machine because of how it allocates disk space.
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