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Is Rapid Recovery compatible with Synology DSM?

zacklong
over 7 years ago

We have are currently using a Synology DiskStation as our file server. We weren't sure if it was compatible with Rapid Recovery. I know that Rapid Recovery works with a handful of Linux distributions but I didn't see anything for Synology DSM.

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  • 0 over 7 years ago
    Hi Zacklong:
    Sorry for the delay in replying. Synology DiskSation uses a heavily modified Linux distribution and as such protecting it with the Rapid Recovery agent is not supported.
    However, you should be able to carve LUNs on your Synology appliance and connect them via ISCSI to Windows (or supported Linux distributions) which in turn allow you protecting them via Rapid Recovery.
    Although being able to protect your DiskStation directly via RapidRecovery would be the most straightforward solution, there advantages pertaining protected the LUNs together with the hosts they pertain to. (The most evident being that you can easily restore to a different location, that the recovery points created on Windows hosts are directly mountable on the Core, that you have to deal with smaller chunks of data for backup/restore and that the CPU/Memory load is divided between multiple hosts).

    Under the circumstances, I propose the following quick DR plan:
    * Download and store safely the newest version of the DiskStation OS every time you update the Synology Appliance
    * Backup the Synology appliance configuration (www.synology.com/.../system_configbackup)
    * Protect the LUNs containing data via RapidRecovery by attaching them using ISCSI to the supported hosts they serve.

    In the worst case disaster scenario, you need to repair the Synology Hardware, re-install the OS (that you saved), restore the configuration (that you saved) and restore the data on the various LUNs using the protected hosts' recovery points, in the order that makes sense to your organization.
    Moreover, if bringing the Synology Appliance is difficult or takes too long, you can recover critical data on the Synology LUNS to other type of storage (local storage for instance) or quickly recover critical files from mounted Recovery Points belonging to Windows Hosts.

    Hope that this helps.
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  • 0 over 7 years ago
    Hi Zacklong:
    Sorry for the delay in replying. Synology DiskSation uses a heavily modified Linux distribution and as such protecting it with the Rapid Recovery agent is not supported.
    However, you should be able to carve LUNs on your Synology appliance and connect them via ISCSI to Windows (or supported Linux distributions) which in turn allow you protecting them via Rapid Recovery.
    Although being able to protect your DiskStation directly via RapidRecovery would be the most straightforward solution, there advantages pertaining protected the LUNs together with the hosts they pertain to. (The most evident being that you can easily restore to a different location, that the recovery points created on Windows hosts are directly mountable on the Core, that you have to deal with smaller chunks of data for backup/restore and that the CPU/Memory load is divided between multiple hosts).

    Under the circumstances, I propose the following quick DR plan:
    * Download and store safely the newest version of the DiskStation OS every time you update the Synology Appliance
    * Backup the Synology appliance configuration (www.synology.com/.../system_configbackup)
    * Protect the LUNs containing data via RapidRecovery by attaching them using ISCSI to the supported hosts they serve.

    In the worst case disaster scenario, you need to repair the Synology Hardware, re-install the OS (that you saved), restore the configuration (that you saved) and restore the data on the various LUNs using the protected hosts' recovery points, in the order that makes sense to your organization.
    Moreover, if bringing the Synology Appliance is difficult or takes too long, you can recover critical data on the Synology LUNS to other type of storage (local storage for instance) or quickly recover critical files from mounted Recovery Points belonging to Windows Hosts.

    Hope that this helps.
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