Backing up my Synology NAS to Amazon Glacier

As I work with Amazon Web Services and once again ran across Amazon Glacier and decided to use it to back up my 20TB Synology NAS server. I currently have two identical Synology NAS Servers – one as my primary image storage, and the other one as a backup to the first. My plan a couple of years ago when I purchased them was to house one of my NAS servers off-site to back up the primary NAS server. I never got around to that, although I do have one backing up the other at my house. Works great in case of a failure, but not so great in case of a fire or another tornado!

Now that I have an AWS account I decided to try out Amazon Glacier to back up my NAS server. It was unbelievably easy to set up. I installed the Glacier backup package from Synology with one click. Then I logged into Amazon Web Services and grabbed my security keys, pasted those into dialog for setting up the backups on the Synology screen, set my schedules, and then just let it run. I am not sure how long it is going to take, but who cares? I will just let it run and then once complete, I have a task scheduled to back up new files once per week. That shouldn’t take nearly as long.

I also have my Synology NAS programmed to replicate our critical every-day working data to Google Drive so that Kay and I can access it while we are out and about. The Glacier data is more for long-term emergency backups, not for daily usage. I am using the free Glacier tier which is plenty for us.

Now to just let it run. I am liking this Amazon stuff!!