Snapshot Replication

Snapshot Replication provides schedulable, near-instantaneous data protection, ensuring business data in shared folders, and virtual machines in iSCSI LUNs, remain safe and available in the event of disaster.

Live Demo Specifications Applied models

Instant protection with snapshot technology

By leveraging the availability of Btrfs file system to more models, the Synology NAS includes state-of-the-art data snapshot technology, allowing for flexible point-in-time recovery of files, while only using a fraction of the storage space and computing resource compared to traditional backup.

Support target

As frequently as 5 minutes for shared folders and 15 minutes for iSCSI LUNs.

Instant recovery

Available for shared folders and iSCSI LUNs. Recover to a previous version in seconds.

Extended replication

Flexible replication topology for different business structures.

Flexible Extended Replication Topology

Flexible replication topology for different business structures

Active/active

Extended replication

Hub-to-spoke

One-to-many

Management Made Easy

Self-service recovery: Recovery can be intuitively done with File Station or Windows File Explorer when the operators are with eligible privilege, without the intervention of system administrator.

View snapshot storage utilization at a glance: The snapshot calculator provides a transparent report on the storage space consumed by shared folder snapshots. IT administrators can utilize storage space more efficiently by deleting sizable snapshots.

Self-service recovery

Recovery can be intuitively done with File Station or Windows File Explorer when the operators are with eligible privilege, without the intervention of system administrator.

Disaster recovery for virtualization environments

Application-aware snapshots for virtualized workloads running on VMware and Hyper-V ensures data consistency of virtual machines. In addition, the support of VMware Site Recovery Manager simplifies the recovery process by allowing to start disaster recovery directly via VMware vCenter Server.

Flexible retention and replication methods

Snapshot Replication provides flexible retention and export/import methods for your replications to save your time, space, and bandwidth

Flexible retention policy

Retention policies can be customized differently on the primary server and recovery server to optimize the storage usage.
Export/import initial replication

The initial replication data can be delivered to the recovery server with the import function with physical storage device, avoid the long-wait time of the initial replication over network.

Powerful administration tools

In addition to the snapshot protection, Snapshot Replication also provides great tools for system administrators to shorten the time required for actual failover and monitor each replication task effectively.