After tests, we found Active Backup for Business has astonishing backup speeds and works wonders on deleting duplicate data – it only took up 28TB out of the total 58TB on the server. We are quite satisfied with the overall performance.
Active Backup for Business
Back up your business, not just your data
Fear license fees no more. Active Backup for Business (ABB), the modern backup & instant recovery software that comes free with Synology NAS, allows you to back up unlimited Windows endpoints, VMware, Hyper-V and file servers without additional software license costs.
The top three pain points can be solved at once.
Working overtime due to a service outage? Suffering from time-consuming deployments or slow backup time? Concerned about storage usage? With Active Backup for Business, say goodbye to all those pain points.
Have no fear and gain peace of mind
Service downtime hurts and may be detrimental to revenue and brand reputation. Active Backup for Business gives you the confidence to bring data, applications, and services back in a short time to achieve business continuity.
Hassle-free efficiency
Full data protection and backup efficiency should not be a trade-off, but a given. Active Backup for Business enables you to greatly reduce backup time and enhance storage usage efficiency while achieving full data protection.
Work faster with light-touch deployment
You don't need troublesome deployment processes anymore. A NAS and installation within a few clicks is all you need for Active Backup for Business to start working behind the scene.
Complete your 3-2-1 backup efficiently
Always think one step ahead - extend your data protection by replicating backup data to another Synology NAS using Snapshot Replication, and let your storage size stay deduped. Easily restore from offsite backup tasks when a disaster happens at the production site.
Smarter IT
Keep alert of anything unusual.
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Centralized management console
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Scheduled report
Generate a report based on your policy and see it in your inbox, letting you quickly see backup status without logging into your NAS.
Unlimited backups. No license necessary.
Choose a compatible Synology NAS that fits your backup capacity planning, no matter how many computers, servers, or virtual machines you back up – completely free of software licenses.
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Risk-free system-level protection
Centralize PC backups
Active Backup for Business offers entire Windows PC protection from the administrative perspective, helping businesses or individuals centrally back up their critical digital assets and settings, while saving storage space with global deduplication.
Learn more about supported Windows operating systems.
Bare-metal backup & recovery
System-level backup ensures bare-metal recovery (BMR) of disk images, applications, settings, and data in the event of disasters, extending protection to all the endpoints in your network.
Get your PC prepared against disasters
Regularly back up Windows system images and adopt the 3-2-1 backup strategy to realize off-site backup, minimizing the risk of ransomware and system crashes.
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Client-side protection
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Monitor backup traffic your way
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Create recovery media with a click
Generate boot media in mainstream USB and ISO formats with the Active Backup Recovery Media Creator, greatly simplifying the backup process — just a click away.
Optimize NAS storage efficiency
Provide business-grade backup methods to maximize storage capacity, thereby cutting down on storage costs as data continues to grow.
Global deduplication
Global deduplication technology works wonders especially for backup tasks across multiple PCs, as the operating systems and files across different devices and platforms will be deduplicated and saved only once.
Forever-incremental
Integrate Microsoft VSS to ensure data consistency and leverage Changed Block Tracking (CBT) to perform fast forever-incremental backup.
Streamline IT deployment and management
Active Backup for Business makes it easier for IT to deploy multiple PC backup in business environments.
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Self-restore portal
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Automatically apply backup rules
Set up templates to automatically apply backup frequency, number of backup versions, and retention policies to devices with different user groups — without manual configuration for each. -
Seamlessly integrate existing account system
Integrate Windows AD server so that the administrator can silently deploy mass installations & auto-logins at each client site.
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Get the best of both virtual and physical worlds
Fully protect your data and services on physical servers running Microsoft Windows. With Instant Restore, you can migrate your services to VMware vSphere and Synology VMM in the event of unexpected interruptions.
Pain points solved and needs satisfied
Highly efficient backup experience
Versatile ways of restoring
Risk management
Administer with ease
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- Global deduplication greatly reduces identical blocks across devices, platforms, and versions – with the proven 50%+ deduplication rate in real customer environments.
- Forever-incremental backup identifies and transfers only changed blocks to reduce backup time and bandwidth.
- Ensures backup consistency of VSS-aware applications, such as Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, SQL, and SharePoint.
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- Bare-metal recovery: Bare-metal recovery (BMR) helps you recover disk images, applications, settings, and data in the event of disasters.
- P2V recovery: Instantly boot the backup image on VMware, Hyper-V or Synology’s own hypervisor platform, Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), to recover your service.
- Self-service recovery portal: Allow users to perform instant file and folder recovery on their own without IT support.
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Even though everything seems on track when in service, once a server gets restarted, that is when existing errors reveal themselves. To make sure every problem can be discovered and the version is fully restorable, ahead of real restoration, the image will be sent to VMM for a dry run mocking the restart of the server. The results will be recorded and displayed in a form of video playing on split-screen monitors, where IT admins can easily spot the blue screen of death and troubleshoot the degradated versions even before the trouble takes place.
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As part of the all-in-one solution, admins enjoy the simplicity of monitoring and managing all backups in a centralized dashboard, minimizing the effort needed to maintain the service.
Complete your 3-2-1 backup efficiently
Always think one step ahead - extend your data protection by replicating backup data to another Synology NAS using Snapshot Replication, and let your storage size stay deduped. Easily restore from offsite backup tasks when a disaster happens at the production site.
Unlimited backups. No license necessary.
Choose a compatible Synology NAS that fits your backup capacity planning, no matter how many computers, servers, or virtual machines you back up – completely free of software licenses.
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Contact UsProtecting business file servers without the need for an agent
File servers implementing common protocols like SMB and rsync are under our purview. With simplified setup, Active Backup for Business reduces management costs for IT admins as all of the important information you need has been centralized to one dashboard, and one DSM.
Simple deployment with agentless backup
As an agentless backup solution, file servers can be actively protected while free from client performance degradation or incompatibility.
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Agentless backup
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Back up files on a daily basis, without having to install complicated and costly agents on source servers or worry about affecting client performance and agent compatibility.
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Flexible backup schedule
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File server backup supports flexible schedule options from hourly to daily on the days you wish to back up to fit with specific protection policies.
Flexible backup mode
Multi-versioned, mirroring, and incremental modes are provided to meet most frequently required backup needs.
Multi-versioned mode
Offers multiple recovery points by creating a new version for each backup run, allowing you to easily recover files from any previous point in time.
Mirroring mode
Suitable for users that need only the most updated version of their files, as it overwrites the backup on the target based on the changes made on the source.
Incremental mode
It can be used for archival purposes, as the backup will be overwritten by the newly added and modified files, while keeping the deleted files on the target.
DSM integration
Leveraging the maturity of DSM technologies and supporting encryption as well as Btrfs, Active Backup for Business can greatly enhance data security and storage efficiency.
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Encryption
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Btrfs-ready
For data stored in Btrfs volumes, compression can minimize storage consumption, while data scrubbing can correct major memory and storage errors.
Supports SMB and rsync
SMB and rsync protocols are supported in file server backup
An SMB server
SMB is used to transfer files from Windows file servers to your Synology NAS. Taking advantage of FSRVP (File Server Remote VSS Protocol) integration, the consistency of your backup is ensured. In addition to file backup, Windows ACL can also be backed up, letting you easily restore files and access control at the same time.
An rsync server
The rsync protocol is used to transfer files from servers to your Synology NAS. Taking advantage of rsync, you can enable block-level transfer, encryption, compression, and bandwidth control, enjoying safe and efficient transfers. In addition to file backup, Linux POSIX ACL can also be backed up.
After tests, we found Active Backup for Business has astonishing backup speeds and works wonders on deleting duplicate data — it only took up 28TB out of the total 58TB on the server. We are quite satisfied with the overall performance.
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Not sure which Synology NAS is best for your backup environment? Contact us and we will recommend for you.
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Free VMware & Hyper-V backup and recovery
Fear license fees no more. Active Backup for Business (ABB), the modern backup & instant recovery software integrated with Synology NAS, requires no additional software license costs to back up unlimited VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines.
Agentless backup for VMware & Hyper-V
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Forever incremental backup
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Speed up backup through native integration with VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT) & Microsoft Hyper-V Resilient Change Tracking (RCT) to only transfer incremental blocks after the first full backup.
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Application-aware image backup
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Ensure data in VSS-aware applications, such as Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, SQL, and SharePoint running on VMware & Hyper-V stays consistently protected.
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Global deduplication
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Built-in global deduplication greatly reduces storage consumption across devices, platforms, and versions. Learn more from success stories
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Verify backup reliability
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Ensure backup reliability through on-screen simulation of VMs on Synology Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).
Complete your 3-2-1 backup efficiently
Always think one step ahead - extend your data protection by replicating backup data to another Synology NAS using Snapshot Replication, and let your storage size stay deduped. Easily restore from offsite backup tasks when a disaster happens at the production site.
Recover what you need in a flash
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Instant restore to VMware & Hyper-V
Quickly start your service with the backups on Synology NAS – just within seconds.
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Instant recovery on Synology NAS
Integration with Synology VMM turns Synology NAS temporarily into a production site for upgrade testing, or a disaster recovery site for critical service restoration to Synology NAS when the hypervisor goes down.
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Self-service recovery portal
The administrator and authorized users can visit Active Backup for Business Portal for file-level granular recovery, thus saving IT admins the trouble.
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Learn more about the following backup environments where you can use the Active Backup suite.
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