Synology Active Backup Suite vs. Paragon Hard Disk Manager

1 - Great as a backup device, as part of an overall backup strategy. 2 - Really good for small businesses as it's a very capable box and can be a DHCP server, VPN server, File Server and more.

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Paragon Hard Disk Manager is a solution that makes working directly with hard drives a breeze. It is suited for entry level users through to experienced techs and covers most scenarios you can throw at it!

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• intuitive UI for both managing backups and restore jobs.
• Compression and deduplication, to reduce to storage needs and costs.
• Easy to install and setup backup agent on windows, linux and of course synology

• When you have a hard drive that is physically failing with CHKDSK errors, it will often somehow still clone it and make it work on the new system.
• It can take a computer's operating system installation and make it work on dissimilar hardware.

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• Can't think of any currently.

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• Sometimes it does not estimate time to completion properly.

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Synology Active Backup Suite is easy to use, has great documentation, has video tutorials for a fast integration, it integrates well with Mac OS and Windows. You can have two different NAS machines backing up each other and keeping duplications in separate physical places and with no outside access, just login in from each other.

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I've never had to contact Paragon support which speaks to the quality of their product.

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Synology is
a great and simple solution to backup physical or virtual infrastructure, it
does what it provides very well.

It’s
lacking a lot of advanced features from the more established solutions on the
market such as Veeam but if budget is an issue you can’t beat the cost and an
all in one solution that can back up your on prem infrastructure and your
Microsoft 365 tenant as well.

Google Backup and SYNC required a stable and fast internet connection, and the amount of data we could back up was limited. We use Paragon Hard Disk Manager to back up data to a NAS device - this method does not require an internet connection and the data we can back up is unlimited. Furthermore, we have greater control over our data

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• I was able to store more data for less money
• I was able to keep more backup versions
• I was abe to cut costs from cloud backup by keeping only the newest backup online instead of several versions

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• It has contributed to positive Return on Investment.
• It has catered for all our organization storage needs.