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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. Learn more

Get the best of both virtual and physical worlds
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Highly efficient backup experience Versatile ways of restoring Risk management Administer with ease
  • 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.
  • 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.
Inspect a video of your server backups starting up to ensure integrity and reliability. After a server is backed up, the startup sequence can be recorded and sent to you, helping you identify and troubleshoot issues before they escalate.
Monitor and manage all backups easily from a powerful dashboard.

Achieve full protection with the 3-2-1 backup rule

Replicate your backups offsite to another Synology NAS and restore your data quickly when the production site is down. Learn more

Achieve full protection with the 3-2-1 backup rule

Unlimited backups, license-free

Protect all your data, no matter how many computers, servers, or virtual machines your business is deploying.

Recognized by Gartner Peer InsightsWith a 4.8/5 rating and 100% recommendation rate, Synology has been recognized as a Strong Performer in Gartner® Peer InsightsTM Customers’ Choice 2024 for Enterprise Backup & Recovery Software Solutions.

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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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Synology NAS solution enables convenient, efficient backups for over 700 PCs, 13 physical servers, 49 VMs to easily deal with a wide array of data management challenges.

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"Active Backup for Business is a license-free integrated backup solution, which facilitates optimal use of limited resources for businesses."

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