Synology Active Backup Suite vs. Iperius Backup

1 - Great as a backup device, as part of an overall backup strategy. 2 - Really good for small businesses as it's a very capable box and can be a DHCP server, VPN server, File Server and more.

Incentivized

Iperius Backup is a very simple and cheap but absolutely effective solution for small infrastructures. You can use it both on Windows clients and servers, it can integrate with ESXi, MySQL, MSSQL, etc. I think the best way to use it is with their cloud space (Iperius Cloud Storage) that allows you to take care effortlessly of your small customers' data. When it comes to more complex infrastructures, I prefer relying on something different (Nakivo Backup and Replication, Promox Backup Server).

Incentivized

• intuitive UI for both managing backups and restore jobs.
• Compression and deduplication, to reduce to storage needs and costs.
• Easy to install and setup backup agent on windows, linux and of course synology

• Less than 15' to set up
• It has its own cloud storage solution
• It has a monitoring console
• It's very cost effective

Incentivized

• Can't think of any currently.

Incentivized

• Lack of clear documentation
• Rsync not supported
• Apparently NFS shares are supported but it's not clear how to use them
• Iperius Console should be improved (it's almost a read-only dashboard and you need too many clicks to get where you want to go)

Incentivized

Synology Active Backup Suite is easy to use, has great documentation, has video tutorials for a fast integration, it integrates well with Mac OS and Windows. You can have two different NAS machines backing up each other and keeping duplications in separate physical places and with no outside access, just login in from each other.

Incentivized

Synology is
a great and simple solution to backup physical or virtual infrastructure, it
does what it provides very well.

It’s
lacking a lot of advanced features from the more established solutions on the
market such as Veeam but if budget is an issue you can’t beat the cost and an
all in one solution that can back up your on prem infrastructure and your
Microsoft 365 tenant as well.

The company used several free solutions (e.g. Cobian Backup et al.) but they were outdated and there was no standardization, nor a simple way to monitor all the backup jobs. Iperius had all the key features needed for the task and the project is very much alive (regular new releases).

Incentivized

• I was able to store more data for less money
• I was able to keep more backup versions
• I was abe to cut costs from cloud backup by keeping only the newest backup online instead of several versions

Incentivized

• One standard solution for small customers
• One console to monitor backup jobs

Incentivized