How To Set Up G Suite Backup With a Synology NAS
Channel: Daniel Rosehill
Date: 2020-06-22

Setting up Active Backup for G Suite on the Synology DS920+ NAS — the setup process for domain administrators.

The Active Backup for G Suite products can create continuous or periodic backups of *some* troughs of user data including email, contacts, and Google Drive.  This allows users to achieve on-premises what many cloud-to-cloud (C2C) backup providers charge high licensing fees to achieve.

The setup process involved 15 steps. But once running, the backup process ran flawlessly. Users that want to do so can mirror the Active Backup shared volume to a second cloud to achieve an offsite backup for 3-2-1 compliance, the cornerstone of well-conceived backup approaches.

👍 What I liked:
- Affordability. Save on licensing fees versus paying a third party to back up GSuite.
- Backups executed well once set up.

👎 What I didn't like:
- I found the scheduling options needlessly restrictive.
- Not all user data is included in the backup, although this is a criticism to be made of most GSuite backup tools. I continue to prefer Google Takeouts which — although not a backup engine per se — allows me to create a fuller copy of all the data I give to Google to host in their cloud. Including the video on this YouTube channel!

Synology's documentation: https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/active_backup_g_suite

By: Daniel Rosehill.
www.danielrosehill.co.il.

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