Never lose a photo, video, or file again. Cloud backup made easy and automatic. Backblaze unlimited online backup for $6 per month. Backblaze are entirely a storage company and yet are the cheapest outside of AWS Glacier. The closest I could find is OVH's public cloud at $7/TB/mth compared to $5 with BB. I'm not concerned about how much it'll cost me, especially not with such a small payload but I'm not thinking shortterm. Backblaze B2 is priced per-GB and costs 1/4th as much as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform ($0.005/GB/month for storage and $0.01/GB for download). Data can be stored and accessed in Backblaze B2 via web, command-line, and API interfaces.
Network-Attached-Storage (NAS) devices are great for local backups and archives of data. They have become even more capable, now often taking over functions that used to be reserved for servers.
QNAP produces a popular line of networking products, including NAS units that can work with Macintosh, Windows, Linux, and other OS’s. QNAP’s NAS products are used in office, home, and professional environments for storage and a variety of applications, including business, development, home automation, security, and entertainment.
Data stored on a QNAP NAS can be backed up to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage using QNAP’s Hybrid Backup Sync application, which consolidates backup, restoration and synchronization functions into a single QTS application. With the latest releases of QTS and Hybrid Backup Sync (HBS), you can now sync the data on your QNAP NAS to and from Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.
How to Set up QNAP’s Hybrid Backup Sync to Work With B2 Cloud Storage
To set up your QNAP with B2 sync support, you’ll need access to your B2 account. You’ll also need your B2 Account ID, application key and bucket name — all of which are available after you log into your Backblaze account. Finally, you’ll need the Hybrid Backup Sync application installed in QTS on your QNAP NAS. You’ll need QTS 4.3.3 or later and Hybrid Backup Sync v2.1.170615 or later.
- Open the QTS desktop in your web browser.
- If it’s not already installed, install the latest Hybrid Backup Sync from the App Center.
- Click on Hybrid Backup Sync from the desktop.
- Click the Sync button to create a new connection to B2.
- Select “One-way Sync” and “Sync with the cloud.” Other options are also available.
- Select “Local to cloud sync.”
- Select an existing Account (job), or just select “Backblaze B2” to create a new one.
- Enter a display name for this job, and an Application Key ID and Application Key for the Backblaze B2 account. This Application Key needs to have full read/write permissions for the bucket or section of the bucket the QNAP will access.
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- Select the source folder on the NAS you’d like to sync, and the bucket name and folder name on B2 for the destination. If you’d like to sync immediately, select the “Sync Now” checkbox. Click “Advanced Settings” if you’d like to configure a backup schedule, select client-side encryption, compression, filters, file replacement policies, and other options. Click “Apply.” If you selected “Sync Now,” your job will start.
- After you’ve finished configuring your job, you will see the “All Jobs” dialog with the status of all your jobs.
What You Can Do With B2 and QNAP Hybrid Backup Sync?
The Hybrid Backup Sync app provides you with total control over what gets backed up to B2. You can synchronize in the cloud as little or as much as you want. Here are some practical examples of what you can do with Hybrid Backup Sync and B2 working together.
1 — Sync the Entire Contents of your QNAP to the Cloud
The QNAP NAS has excellent fault-tolerance — it can continue operating even when individual drive units fail — but nothing in life is foolproof. It pays to be prepared in the event of a catastrophe. If you follow our 3-2-1 Backup Strategy, you know how important it is to make sure that you have a copy of your files in the cloud.
2 — Sync Your Most Important Media Files
Using your QNAP to store movies, music and photos? You’ve invested untold amounts of time, money, and effort into collecting those media files, so make sure they’re safely and securely synced to the cloud with Hybrid Backup Sync and B2.
3 — Back Up Time Machine and Other Local Backups
Apple’s Time Machine software provides Mac users with reliable local backup, and many of our customers rely on it to provide that crucial first step in making sure their data is secure. QNAP enables the NAS to act as a network-based Time Machine backup. Those Time Machine files can be synced to the cloud, so you can make sure to have Time Machine files to restore from in the event of a critical failure.
If you use Windows or Linux, you can configure the QNAP NAS as the destination for your Windows or Linux local data backup. That, in turn, can be synced to the cloud from the NAS.
Why B2?
B2 is the best value in cloud storage. The cost to store data in the B2 cloud is up to 75 percent less than the competition. You can see for yourself with our B2 Cost Calculator.
If you haven’t given B2 a try yet, now is the time. You can get started with B2 and your QNAP NAS right now, and make sure your NAS is synced securely and automatically to the cloud.
QNAP® Systems, Inc. (“QNAP”), a leading computing, networking and storage solution innovator, today announced its collaboration with Backblaze, Inc. (“Backblaze“), a US-headquartered data storage provider, for the integration of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage into several QNAP solutions, including HybridMount, VJBOD Cloud, and Hybrid Backup Sync 3 (HBS 3). With Backblaze B2, QNAP NAS users can now enjoy a cloud storage service that is easy, affordable, and predictable.
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“By supporting the advanced Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, we’ve provided QNAP NAS users with greater choice in building fast, cost-effective, and expandable hybrid cloud solutions,” said Josh Chen, product manager of QNAP.
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HybridMount is QNAP’s file-based cloud storage gateway solution for accelerating access to major cloud storage services, such as Backblaze B2. The VJBOD Cloud block-based cloud storage gateway allows QNAP NAS users to effortlessly back up to a cloud object storage, further enhancing availability and reliability. HBS 3 is the latest version of QNAP’s NAS backup/restore/synchronization app, providing users with superior disaster recovery planning solutions. HBS 3 can back up and synchronize data to supported cloud storage services, including Backblaze B2. For these solutions, users can now select Backblaze B2 as their cloud storage and enjoy versatile benefits including low cost and high performance.
Backblaze B2 is a cloud storage solution that provides high performance data storage at one fourth the cost of leading cloud storage providers: US$ 0.005/GB/month for storage, free uploads, and US$ 0.01/GB for downloads*. There is no minimum storage amount or time requirements for data storage, and stored data is instantly available with no off-line or near-line delays. With 10+ years of experience and over 1 exabyte of client data being managed, B2 is one of the most trusted brands for block-based cloud storage.
“Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage is the ideal complement to QNAP’s backup and cloud storage gateway software, giving individuals and businesses a simple, robust, and highly cost-effective hybrid cloud data protection solution that can be deployed in minutes,” said Nilay Patel, Vice President, Backblaze.
Backblaze will be hosting a webinar on May 19, 2020 featuring introductions and demonstrations of QNAP HybridMount, VJBOD Cloud, and HBS 3 solutions with Backblaze B2. To register for the online event, go to https://bit.ly/3cI5d9g.
To learn more about QNAP x Backblaze integrations, visit the Backblaze Blog.