Backups: the last line of defense when disaster strikes
When data is lost following malicious deletion or modification, backups allow you to restore mission-critical data and avoid costly downtime. Leverage Synology’s data protection solutions to design a backup strategy for your entire IT infrastructure.
Complete protection
Safeguard endpoints as well as primary backups to create multiple safety nets for your data.
Fast recovery
Reduce downtime to a minimum when disaster strikes with instant recovery options.
Immutable storage
Prevent unauthorized changes to data and snapshots.
License-free backups
Back up as much data as your storage allows, without limitations or hidden fees.
Centralized protection against ransomware
Consolidate backups from fleets of workstations, servers, virtual machines, and cloud applications. Optimize storage consumption and avoid bandwidth bottlenecks with data deduplication and incremental backup technologies. Learn more
Physical workloads
Protect endpoints in the event of malicious attacks with comprehensive bare-metal backup and flexible file-level recovery.
Virtual infrastructure
Back up VMware® vSphere™, Microsoft® Hyper-V® VMs, and LUNs with powerful data reduction technologies.
SaaS accounts
Enable continuous protection for data stored on the cloud with automatic detection of newly added accounts.

Efficient recovery
Minimize downtime for critical production systems by rapidly restoring backups from a local or offsite Synology system.
Near-zero RTO
Mount backup images on VMware®, Hyper-V®, or Synology Virtual Machine Manager to resume work as quickly as possible. Restore VMs to an alternative hypervisor to avoid service disruption.
Minimal RPO
Configure backup frequency according to your needs, minimizing the amount of data potentially affected during an attack. Protect systems rapidly thanks to incremental backups and deduplication technology.
Intuitive operation
Let employees browse and preview emails, contacts, and files from a convenient portal before restoring them, delivering a more user-friendly experience and reducing the burden on IT teams.

Add an extra layer of protection
Adhere to the 3-2-1 backup strategy by storing a third set of data offsite or on the cloud, shielding your data against fire, natural disaster, or theft.
To offsite servers
Store backups to a Synology server at a secondary location to defend against physical disaster and replicate immutable snapshots for added ransomware protection.
To the cloud
Back up to any major cloud storage provider, keeping your data safe from unauthorized access through client-side AES-256 encryption.Learn more
Trusted across industries

"Synology … enabled us to reduce server hardware expenditure … while making infrastructure and workstation backups, system logging, and file management much easier."

"Thanks to Active Backup for Business, all our backups are now centralized and available 24/7, which helps us minimize downtime and stay compliant with FERPA's regulations."

". . . Active Backup for Business has astonishing backup speeds and works wonders on deleting duplicate data — it only took up 28 TB out of the total 58 TB on the server. . . ."

". . . Active Backup for Business . . . allows us to centralize and manage all the backup tasks from a single console. Fast and reliable recovery also ensures business continuity."
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Notes:
eSentire, 2022 Official Cybercrime Report https://www.esentire.com/resources/library/2022-official-cybercrime-report