Synchronize a Synology NAS with Exoscale Object Storage

The Synology NAS is a very user-friendly storage system for private persons and small to medium businesses. It comes with a large number of applications and can synchronize with an Amazon S3-compatible storage, like Exoscale Simple Object Storage. This guide shows how to set synchronization with Exoscale SOS with the Cloud Sync application.

NOTE - This method synchronizes the Synology NAS with Exoscale SOS. It does not create a versioned backup. If you want to create a versioned backup, see the Hyper Backup guide.

Prerequisites

Before you start this guide, you will need to:

Install Cloud Sync

Open the Package Center.

Package Center Icon

Search for Hyper Backup (produced by Synology Inc.) and install it.

Cloud Sync package

Set up Cloud Sync

Open the main menu and start Cloud Sync. Then follow the screenshots below.

When asked for account settings, select Customer Server URL and enter sos-ZONE.exo.io in the server field. Make sure to substitute ZONE with the relevant zone.

NOTE - You can find all Zones on our website and with the cli: exo zones list

Also enter your IAM Key, secret and bucket name.

Main Overview

Click on +

Select S3 storage

Account setting

Select the folder that you want to synchronize