Enterprise Backup Strategies with Synology Active Backup
Using Synology Active Backup for Business to Keep Business Systems Safe
Many systems work together in modern businesses. File servers, laptops, virtual machines, and application databases all store important information that is needed for business. When one fails, work stops right away. Because of this, a backup plan needs to protect the whole infrastructure instead of just one device. Synology Active Backup for Business is made to protect everything in one place so that businesses can handle recovery from one platform instead of many different tools.
Why You Need a Centralized Backup
Businesses now work in a variety of settings, such as on-premises hardware and virtual platforms. Having to use different backup tools for each system makes it harder for administrators and leaves holes in protection. A centralized backup platform makes sure that policies are the same, monitoring is the same, and recovery procedures are always the same. This lowers the chance of missing backups and makes sure that all systems follow the same recovery standard.
Workloads that are supported
Active Backup for Business protects physical servers, employee computers, and virtual machines all from one place. Instead of having to rebuild operating systems and applications by hand, systems can be recovered as whole machines. You can also protect virtual infrastructure without putting extra agents in each virtual machine. This makes it easier to set up in large environments. Version history keeps shared folders and application data available, so you can go back to a previous state if you accidentally change the data.
How to Make a Backup
After the first full backup, the platform does incremental backups, which only save data that has changed. This cuts down on network traffic and storage use while still keeping restore points that happen often. Administrators can check the success of backups from a single dashboard thanks to continuous monitoring. Organizations can keep data for longer periods of time without needing a lot of storage space because only the differences are saved.
Abilities to Recover
The speed of recovery is the most important thing to look at when judging the quality of a backup. Active Backup lets you quickly restore virtual machines so that services can keep running while the repair is being done. You can also restore whole systems to new hardware after a device breaks. You can get back individual files without having to rebuild the whole system. This lets employees quickly get back lost documents without affecting other data.
Protection from Ransomware and Security
Even if production systems are hacked, backup systems must stay safe. The platform keeps backup data separate from regular user permissions and lets you choose from multiple restore points. This makes sure that there are clean copies of data even if encryption malware corrupts live files. Companies can get back to business without paying a ransom or losing historical records if they set things up correctly.
Integration with the Synology platform
Companies don’t have to keep a separate backup server because the backup software runs directly on the storage system. In one place, you can do management, storage, and recovery tasks. This makes deployment easier and reduces the complexity of the infrastructure while still providing enterprise-level reliability.
Common Business Situation
A company that is growing and has many departments may have several virtual servers and employee laptops. Administrators can keep an eye on protection from one place with a centralized backup solution. If a server goes down, operations can pick up right away from a backup while the hardware is fixed. Employees keep working with little to no problems.
About the Epis Technology
Epis Technology uses Synology platforms to set up centralized backup systems for servers, endpoints, and virtual environments. The business also protects data in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace and makes plans for disaster recovery to keep the business running. Epis Technology helps businesses make sure they can quickly get back up and running after a system failure or cyber incident by combining storage planning, automation, and recovery testing.