Combine ActiveProtect with Active Backup for Business to make disaster recovery even better

Synology

Modern businesses are at greater risk than ever of losing their most important data, whether it’s through ransomware, hardware failures, or regulatory pressure. Synology’s Active Backup for Business (ABB) is still a powerful and popular backup solution for small and medium-sized businesses. However, as datasets grow and operations move to more than one site, they need more advanced, centralized, and compliance-ready protection.

Synology came up with the ActiveProtect appliance to help businesses deal with these new problems. It’s an enterprise-grade backup and protection platform that brings together ABB environments and turns them into a fully managed disaster recovery ecosystem. When Epis Technology sets up and optimizes a backup system for a business, they get a full, scalable, and compliant backup system that follows the 3-2-1-1-0 strategy and the latest standards for cyber-resilience.

Epis Technology’s Seamless Integration: Bringing ABB Together Under the ActiveProtect Ecosystem

You can now add Active Backup for Business directly to an ActiveProtect cluster. When you type in your NAS domain and use the ActiveProtect connect key, ABB servers automatically connect to the centralized management node.

ActiveProtect makes it easier for organizations that use multiple Synology NAS units with ABB to onboard a lot of new servers at once.

How Epis Technology Makes Things Better

Synology provides the base, and Epis Technology makes sure everything works perfectly together, including:

Designing the architecture for ABB deployments across multiple sites and devices
Safe onboarding of all ABB servers into an ActiveProtect cluster
Configuration for sensitive workloads that meets compliance standards
Centralized monitoring dashboards made just for business governance

This turns separate backup servers into a single, enterprise-level disaster recovery system that can be seen from all sites, devices, and workloads.

The 3-2-1-1-0 Strategy for Advanced Protection

ActiveProtect lets businesses use the full 3-2-1-1-0 backup model, which includes offline protection and backup verification with no errors. Its custom protection policies automatically make backup copies that are kept off-site or in different storage tiers.

Smart Scheduling and No Mistakes Made by People

ActiveProtect does not need extra software or manual scheduling like traditional backup systems do:

Automates the protection of backup copies
Lets you set up a schedule based on version, interval, or a custom policy
System-driven automation gets rid of user mistakes

Epis Technology makes this even better by creating schedules, retention policies, and copy workflows that are in line with:

Requirements for compliance in the industry
Frameworks for reducing ransomware
Needs for operational uptime

Immutable Backup Protection for Environments with No Trust

Modern ransomware goes after backups very hard. ActiveProtect fixes this by making sure that backup versions can’t be changed or deleted, even internally, thanks to version-level immutability and a retention lock mechanism.

Epis Technology makes this layer of protection even stronger by:

Creating unchangeable retention policies that follow the rules of the industry
Setting up strict separation of administrator privileges
Testing the validity of immutable snapshots by regularly restoring them

This makes sure that every backup version is safe from being changed, corrupted, or tampered with without permission.

Automated Isolation for Air-Gapped Protection

ActiveProtect has smart air-gapping features. When ABB data is moved to ActiveProtect:

The appliance finds the right transfer windows
Network interfaces turn off on their own
Until the next scheduled window, systems block all unauthorized access

This gets rid of dangerous manual tasks like unplugging cables or turning off hardware.

How Epis Technology Makes Air-Gapped Security Stronger

Epis Technology sets up:

Air-gap cycles that work best with your backup schedule
Automatic validation of the restore path
Make sure that offline windows work safely

This makes offline protection that works and doesn’t require any touch, and it’s made for business workflows.

Testing for Enterprise Validation, Monitoring, and Recovery

ActiveProtect has a central dashboard for:

Workloads for ABB
Backup success or failure
Results of the drill
Visibility into the lifecycle of cross-site backups

Epis Technology turns this monitoring into a managed service that includes:

Monitoring of ABB and ActiveProtect clusters 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Reports on compliance and health status every month
Analysis and optimization of predictive capacity
Routine restore drills that check if recovery is possible in real life

Companies get more than just software; they also get a dedicated team to handle enterprise backup operations.

Protection that is ready for business Synology powers it

Organizations get a powerful, scalable, and compliant backup system by combining the ease of Active Backup for Business with the advanced features of ActiveProtect. ActiveProtect is a powerful way to keep modern business data safe because it has centralized management, immutability, automated air-gapping, and smart policy-driven protection.

Businesses can confidently use the 3-2-1-1-0 strategy, meet regulatory requirements, and keep their operations running smoothly, no matter how their data grows or how the threat landscape changes, thanks to Epis Technology’s design, deployment, and management of these systems.