A 3-2-1(-1-0) Backup Plan for Your Synology NAS

November 3, 2024 Reading time: 43 minutes

It’s late at night and Raul is frantic. He’s desperately searching for an important electronic document he needs for work. He knows it’s on his NAS somewhere, but he can’t remember where he saved it. His frown deepens as he opens folder after folder, not finding what he needs. Then his blood runs cold as he remembers deleting a swath of “unneeded” files last week as part of his annual Spring cleaning. And he has no recent backup. He’d been meaning to back up his NAS, but he kept telling himself he’d do it later.

Raul wakes in a cold sweat. It was all a bad dream. Whew! To reassure himself, and vowing to back up his data right now, Raul gets up and boots his computer. But he realizes all is not well as the computer finishes booting:

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