Catastrophic Backup

general discussion
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I’m looking to set up a Synology NAS running UrBackup in my home. Incremental and full backups would be stored to the NAS for recovery. However unlikely - I’d like to cover the possibility of a catastrophe (such as a fire) where the NAS is destroyed. I don’t need ‘up to the minute’ recovery, but I’d like to be able to do a bare metal restore no older than the last full backup for each of the PCs in my house. Is it possible to either save occasional backups to a web storage location? Alternately (maybe preferrably) I could script a file copy once a week or so (if the file would stand alone and enable recovery). Is there a way to do this?

If this has been addressed elsewhere, please excuse the duplication. I’d appreciate a reference to where I can find this Use Case discussed.

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This question really deals with the difference between backup and archiving in my view. I’ve always taken the approach that disaster recovery requires archiving where backups are more a day to day business mitigation. That said, the Synology NAS has a few packages available for different cloud vendors, including Amazon’s Glacier. I believe there is also an Azure module in the wild for using their blob storage. Lastly I remember recently Google has also entered the long / medium term storage market with competitive pricing so you may have a number of options available to you.

Although dated, here is a Glacier / Syno video: http://jasonnash.com/2013/02/24/synology-backup-using-amazon-glacier/