Synology Active Backup Suite

Score9.3 out of 10

12 Reviews and Ratings

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Business Problems Solved

Synology Active Backup Suite offers a range of features that effectively address various business problems and meet the needs of its users. Users appreciate the software's ability to schedule daily backups for servers, desktops, and laptops, providing them with peace of mind knowing their important data is secure. The email alerts feature also ensures that users are notified promptly about the status of their backups, whether successful or unsuccessful.

One of the key benefits of Active Backup Suite is its seamless file sharing capabilities. Users find it incredibly convenient to share documents, photos, files, and sheets with their teams without worrying about storage limitations. This eliminates the need for cumbersome file transfer methods and enhances collaboration within organizations.

Active Backup for Business has proven to be a cost-effective solution for individual users compared to other software options available in the market. Small and medium businesses particularly find this software to be a perfect fit for backing up PCs in an office environment, especially for disaster recovery scenarios. The ability to restore a PC to its previous state efficiently ensures minimal downtime and productivity loss in case of any issues.

Another significant advantage of utilizing Active Backup Suite is its robust storage capabilities. Many users have applauded the software for providing a secure place to store large amounts of data. With Synology Disk Station acting as a reliable backup destination, users no longer worry about finding an adequate storage solution for their files. This proves to be particularly beneficial when faced with catastrophic events like server failures or hosting company mishaps.

In fact, there have been instances where companies experienced a catastrophic failure at their hosting company resulting in the loss of all websites. However, thanks to the backup stored on Synology Disk Station using Active Backup Suite, every site was successfully restored. This incident showcases how the software can truly be a lifesaver for businesses by ensuring data integrity and offering reliable disaster recovery options.

Overall, Synology Active Backup Suite addresses critical business problems such as data protection, collaboration, cost-effectiveness, and disaster recovery. Its range of features and user-friendly interface make it a highly valuable tool for businesses of all sizes, providing them with the peace of mind and efficiency they need to operate smoothly.

Reviews

4 Reviews

The only way to backup with Synology Active Backup Suite

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 4, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Synology Active Backup Suite in my organization to activate backups. Make them in a specific time, synchronize them and make everything available on our Cloud without having to worry about scheduling about notifications and about errors. It is very simple to install and set up once you have the nest pointed to the computer. It's a automatic functionality that we will run in a specific time and you get a notification every time there is a problem

Pros

Notification
Scheduling
Synchronization

Cons

Setup
Remote control
One click setup

Likelihood to Recommend

Synology Active Backup Suite is well suited for machines running in the same network due to the setup being easier config as well as the network transmission speed. Through the internet is also possible to make a backup but you would be limited to the internet upload speed of your ISP. I believe it is less appropriate to complex networks with several jumps due to configuration.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

Synology Active Backup Suite: Features, Benefits, and Limitations

Rating: 9 out of 10

January 27, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our organization currently uses both Active backup and Active backup for Microsoft 365.
Active backup:
We use active backup to backup Synology devices on remote sites.To backup a few physical servers. Backup an Dev ESXI environment to avoid extra licensing costs with Veeam.

Active backup for Microsoft 365:All user mailboxes, shared mailboxes, contacts and calendars. All sharepoint online data and Teams data. Onedrive data for certain VIPS.

Pros

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

Cons

For our use case managing multiple public entities, it would be nice to have a breakdown of total storage used by job/task after deduplication/compression.
Restoring of SharePoint online data can only be done to the root of the SharePoint site, it’s possibly a Microsoft limitation not the Synology software.
Updates can be slow for the linux kernel support for the Linux version of the agent, it seems to have gotten better over the past year.

Likelihood to Recommend

Synology Active backup is a great low-cost solution to backup your entire infrastructure, no license cost whatsoever currently, only the only requirement is using Synology hardware which is great, and we’ve not had any issues with. Compared to more mature solutions like Veeam, it’s lacking some tools for restoring data / elements quickly. Veeam has tools to restore databases/data or active directory elements like users, groups or Ous. So, if you need the extra tools for certain applications this isn’t the right tool for you.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Reliable cloud data-to-local backup solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 24, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I've been using the Active Backup Suite for over 3 years now at the school where I work. I use the 3 modules for 'Business', 'Google Workspace' and 'Microsoft 365'. The Business module is used to back up a standalone VEEAM server PC. The other two for Google and Microsoft are used to backup cloud data from the respective providers onto encrypted disk storage on the local Synology Box.

This forms part of my school's backup strategy - backing up the data backup server and backing up cloud data to local storage.

Pros

The interface to browse and restore files from the cloud backups is super-easy. As in drop-down boxes to select which account and then files and be exported for restore - no training needed to use it.
The Synology device is fast on the network - 4 x 1Gbps NICs
Updating itself
Being Reliable as a permanently on 24/7 device

Cons

Can't think of any currently.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Clive Francis

ICT Network Manager in Information Technology at Leicester Partnership School (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience