Good afternoon all.
New here, but have been using Synology for about 15 years or more. Certainly since Windows Home Server demise many years ago.
I have a couple of questions if anyone can point me in the right direction.
I have multiple NAS running. One of which is dedicated backup using hyper backup. (DS918+)
Thats the easy part. It takes care of itself.
My data on it doesn't change so often, it just sits in the corner looking after itself. I take a hard drive backup copy which goes in a safe place.
My primary server is DS1621+
On this, I use synology drive, calendar, web station, VMM, Mailplus server, contacts, note station, and hyper backup. amongst others.
Most of these packages, if I have a problem easy and fairly quick solution is just restore from backup.
On my virtual machine, I have hosted a database, ERP Software (dolibarr), its associated web server, PHP etc.
Its running the same DSM7.1 software, (latest release) as the other NAS drives.
My point and question,
I can take a copy of the VM,(via an export) and take it to any other synology machine, and hit the go (import) button, and I have an exact working copy of that, server, database etc all essentially working out the box.
Is this possible with the primary DSM package, or am I better off moving my mail server plus to the VM and having that ability with that.
My main problem, is not knowing how to have that fairly instant, on demand, back up and running ability that I can do with the VM, for the standard dsm os.
Not sure if my description is good, but any pointers most appreciated.
I realise there is a large amount of backup solutions, but to be honest Ive probably confused myself.
I use my servers for my work, and losing my emails etc, spending the long days rebuilding etc is now no longer an option for me.
Taken me too long working out how to host Dolibarr natively amongst other things.
cheers
rob
New here, but have been using Synology for about 15 years or more. Certainly since Windows Home Server demise many years ago.
I have a couple of questions if anyone can point me in the right direction.
I have multiple NAS running. One of which is dedicated backup using hyper backup. (DS918+)
Thats the easy part. It takes care of itself.
My data on it doesn't change so often, it just sits in the corner looking after itself. I take a hard drive backup copy which goes in a safe place.
My primary server is DS1621+
On this, I use synology drive, calendar, web station, VMM, Mailplus server, contacts, note station, and hyper backup. amongst others.
Most of these packages, if I have a problem easy and fairly quick solution is just restore from backup.
On my virtual machine, I have hosted a database, ERP Software (dolibarr), its associated web server, PHP etc.
Its running the same DSM7.1 software, (latest release) as the other NAS drives.
My point and question,
I can take a copy of the VM,(via an export) and take it to any other synology machine, and hit the go (import) button, and I have an exact working copy of that, server, database etc all essentially working out the box.
Is this possible with the primary DSM package, or am I better off moving my mail server plus to the VM and having that ability with that.
My main problem, is not knowing how to have that fairly instant, on demand, back up and running ability that I can do with the VM, for the standard dsm os.
Not sure if my description is good, but any pointers most appreciated.
I realise there is a large amount of backup solutions, but to be honest Ive probably confused myself.
I use my servers for my work, and losing my emails etc, spending the long days rebuilding etc is now no longer an option for me.
Taken me too long working out how to host Dolibarr natively amongst other things.
cheers
rob