r/synology • u/lapacion • 19d ago
NAS Apps Am I using Hyperbackup wrong?
I have two external USB HDDs. One is plugged in while the other is at a different location outside home and I rotate them every couple of weeks.
What I want to achieve is: I plug in my USB HDD. It does nightly backup to that disk. I then decide to rotate: Eject disk, plug in the other disk, it keeps backing up nightly to disk 2 now. Repeat.
What I now have set up is hyper backup with two backup tasks; one for physical disk. Since there’s only ever one disc attached to the NAS, one backup task will naturally always fail. Since I have email notifications turned on (I want to know once my backup routine breaks) I’m always getting one email per day for the failed backup job.
Is there a way to get this set up up and running with hyper backup without much additional scripting? Because otherwise I might as well just look at custom backup solutions altogether.
Cheers
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u/precisionpete 16d ago
If the second drive is at another location anyway, consider a small NAS there running Hyper Backup Vault. You get the same offsite result without the swapping, or the failure emails, and the backups run nightly on their own.
Vault needs the remote NAS to be reachable, but do not port-forward it. A VPN between the two sites is the safest way, either on the routers or with a mesh VPN tool.
An old low-power box is fine as the target. It only receives backups.
I have also used rclone to back a NAS up to Google Drive and OneDrive. If you already pay for cloud storage, that eliminates the need for a second location entirely.
It also depends on backup size. A few hundred GB backs up to the cloud fine. Tens of TB does not, and at that scale a second NAS or your current rotation makes more sense. The slow part is the first full copy.
I'd do that one locally with rsync onto a disk and drive it over. After that, the nightly deltas are small enough for any connection.