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 create backups to an Amazon S3-compatible storage like the Exoscale Object Storage. This guide shows how to set that up with the Hyper Backup application.

This method creates a versioned backup of a Synology NAS to the Exoscale Object Storage.

Prerequisites

As prerequisite for the following documentation, you’ll have to:

Install Hyper Backup

Open the Package Center:

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

Set up Hyper Backup

Open the main menu and start Hyper Backup:

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Follow now the description in the following images.

In the figure with the target destination selection, select Custom Server URL and enter https://sos-ZONE.exo.io in the server field, taking care of substituting ZONE with the proper zone.

Note

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

Also insert the API key and secret, as well as the bucket name.