If I have to point out one single thing that I like about DSM7 it would be this. If you were in a situation that you have to restore or backup some settings to have them ready, you would find out soon that not all settings in DSM are backed up. Well, DSM7 has put an end to this.
With the new Configuration backup and restore options you will be able to snapshot your DSM settings (this does not include your Apps or data, those have to back up via Hyper Backup for example) so you can have them at hand whenever you need.
To make things better you can back them up to your Synology Account, and restore one NAS settings on a completely different NAS! Now, this is great as I'm sure some of you out there were in a situation that you had to restore some settings from your current device onto a new one without the need to migrate the drives and data (a large number of reverse proxy entries maybe?).
With DSM7 this is now possible and works great. Let's see how easy it is and what needs to be done.
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