Before choosing a backup solution, let's understand the several main backup modes offered by TerraMaster:
- Multi-Version Backup: In this mode, each backup completely duplicates all file data. While this method is comprehensive, it is time-consuming and consumes a significant amount of disk space.
- Differential Backup: This mode only backs up data that has changed since the last full backup. This improves efficiency, reducing backup time and storage space required.
- Incremental Backup: This mode focuses on data that has changed since the last backup of any type (full, differential, or incremental), making it the most time and space-efficient of the three methods.
- Hybrid Backup: Hybrid Backup is a unique and efficient backup method developed by TerraMaster. It smartly combines the essence of multi-version and incremental backups, intelligently splitting backup data into multiple data blocks to enable data block sharing between different backup versions. This innovative mechanism significantly reduces disk space usage while preserving the flexibility of multi-version management. Users can easily select the appropriate version for data recovery based on their actual needs. The significant advantages of Hybrid Backup include efficient disk space utilization, fast backup processes, and convenient version management capabilities.
- Synchronization: As a special backup method, synchronization copies the content of a specified folder to another folder, ensuring complete data consistency between them. The synchronization operation does not compress files, providing an intuitive and immediate data replication method that allows users to access the contents of the synchronized folder anytime.
Please note that not all TNAS models support all the backup tools listed below, as some backup tools have specific requirements for the hardware performance of TNAS and the TOS version. To ensure access to more backup tools and enjoy more efficient data protection, we recommend selecting a TNAS device from the TerraMaster x.86 series with a quad-core or higher processor.
- TerraSync
TerraSync is a cloud disk service application designed to help users easily build their own personal private cloud disk service using a TNAS device. By setting flexible synchronization strategies, users can achieve seamless file synchronization between TNAS devices, as well as between TNAS and Windows computers, macOS computers, iOS/Android mobile devices. Choosing to use TNAS to build your private cloud disk means opting for a data storage solution that combines autonomy, independence, security, and economy.
- Centralized Backup
Centralized Backup is a professional disaster recovery tool tailored for business users. With Centralized Backup, IT managers can easily set up the TNAS as a central backup server, avoiding the tedium of configuring each host separately. Using TNAS as a starting point, centralized backup of employee computers, workstations, servers, virtual machine storage spaces, and even system partitions within the enterprise can be achieved, greatly improving the efficiency and security of data management.
- Duple Backup
Duple Backup is a powerful disaster recovery tool focused on enhancing the data security of TNAS devices. It has excellent backup and restore capabilities, effectively preventing data loss due to hardware or system failures of the TNAS device. Through Duple Backup's intuitive and easy-to-use user menu, users can easily back up important folders, volumes, or iSCSI LUNs on the TNAS to multiple destinations, such as remote TNAS devices, file servers, or cloud disks. It supports incremental backups, multi-version backups, and efficient hybrid mode backups, ensuring data integrity and recoverability. In the event of a device failure, Duple Backup can quickly restore lost data, ensuring business continuity and data security.
- CloudSync
CloudSync is an efficient cloud disk synchronization application that achieves fast and secure data synchronization between your TNAS and cloud disks, ensuring perfect integration of cloud disk data with TNAS data. CloudSync supports major cloud disk services around the world, providing users with an extremely practical and efficient one-stop cloud disk disaster recovery solution that makes data backup easier and more convenient.
- USB Copy
Using USB devices for data backup is undoubtedly a simple and efficient disaster recovery strategy. USB Copy is a practical tool specifically designed for data backup between TNAS and USB storage devices. Whether backing up from TNAS to USB or from USB to TNAS, USB Copy provides a graphical interface that allows users to easily create backup tasks, select backup modes, and develop personalized backup plans. It's worth mentioning that USB Copy also has an intelligent mode that automatically unmounts the USB device after the backup task is completed and automatically mounts it before the next backup starts, effectively resisting the threat of ransomware. This feature significantly enhances data security and meets users' backup needs in various scenarios.
- TFM Backup
TFM Backup, or TerraMaster Folder Mirror Backup, is a backup tool specifically designed by TerraMaster for TNAS shared folders. With this tool, users can easily backup shared folders from the TNAS to other local storage locations or remotely mounted folders. TFM Backup offers two backup options: mirror backup and differential backup, satisfying different user backup needs. Additionally, users can configure backup scheduled tasks to achieve automatic timed backups, ensuring continuous data protection. In summary, TFM Backup provides users with a simple and flexible data backup solution for TNAS.
- Snapshot
Snapshot is a disaster recovery tool specifically designed for the BTRFS file system. It fully utilizes the characteristics of this file system to create snapshots of shared folders or iSCSI LUNs on the TNAS, ensuring rapid data recovery in the event of a disaster. In the new TOS system, we have comprehensively upgraded Snapshot, not only enriching its functionality but also greatly enhancing the user experience. Now, users can more easily manage and restore data, ensuring data security and integrity.
- TFSS
TFSS (TerraMaster File System Snapshot) is a disaster recovery tool developed based on the BTRFS file system. It is the first in the industry to implement a snapshot function at the file system/volume level. This innovative feature eliminates the need for users to set snapshot tasks for each individual folder one by one. Instead, they can take snapshots of the entire important volume at once, significantly expanding the scope of data protection and greatly improving the convenience of operation. By leveraging the unique characteristics of the BTRFS file system, TFSS can quickly create snapshots for the entire file system of TNAS devices, effectively preventing data loss caused by misoperation or ransomware attacks and providing a solid guarantee for user data security.
- Time Machine Backup
To facilitate data backup for macOS users, TerraMaster specially developed a backup service in the TOS system that supports Time Machine Backup. This service enables macOS users to easily back up data from their Mac to TNAS using the built-in Time Machine function in macOS through SMB file services, thereby ensuring data security and recoverability.
- Rsync Backup
Rsync is a widely used backup tool in the Linux environment, supported by most Linux servers. When using the Rsync backup service, TNAS can serve as both the source and the destination for Rsync, providing great convenience for backing up data between TNAS and other file servers. This flexibility allows users to easily synchronize and migrate data between different systems, ensuring data security and consistency.
- TPC Backupper
TPC Backupper is a user-friendly backup tool that supports backing up directories on Windows computers to TNAS, USB devices, or other network storage devices. It provides multiple backup modes, supports data restoration, and has a graphical and easy-to-understand operation interface. TPC Backupper is an ideal choice for individual and home users, which can easily meet daily backup needs.
Backup from Windows computer to TNAS
Tool 1: TerraSync
To start using TerraSync, first find and install it in the TOS App Center. Then, set up your personal synchronization directory or team folder in TerraSync. After that, install the TNAS PC client (which includes the synchronization function of TerraSync) on your Windows computer. Finally, create a connection and set up synchronization tasks in the TerraSync module of the TNAS PC to easily achieve data synchronization and backup.
Tool 2: TPC Backupper
To use TPC Backupper for backup, first find and download the app in the TOS App Center, and then install it on your Windows computer. After installation, follow the guidance on the page menu to easily set up backup tasks on the TPC Backupper page, ensuring the safety of your data.
Tool 3: Centralized Backup
Centralized Backup is a backup tool designed for business users, which is very suitable for batch backup of computers, servers, or virtual machines, and may not be suitable for personal or household users. To start using it, find and install Centralized Backup in the TOS App Center. Then, add devices on the Centralized Backup page and download and install the Centralized Backup Agent to the Windows computers you need to back up according to the instructions. Once the Windows computer is successfully connected to your TNAS server through the Centralized Backup Agent, the administrator can initiate backup tasks for the Windows computer from the Centralized Backup server.
Backup From macOS Computers to TNAS
Tool 1: Time Machine Backup
To use Time Machine Backup, you need to ensure that SMB file services are enabled in TOS. Then, go to the "Backup" module of TOS, enable Time Machine Backup, and set the backup directory. On your Mac, create a Time Machine Backup task and select the previously set TNAS backup directory as the destination. This way, you can easily back up data from your Mac to TNAS.
Tool 2: TerraSync
To start using TerraSync, first find and install it in the TOS App Center. In TerraSync, you can set up your personal synchronization directory or team folder. Next, install the TNAS PC client (which integrates TerraSync's synchronization function) on your Mac. After installation, open the TNAS PC client, create a connection to TNAS in the TerraSync module, and then set up synchronization tasks. This allows you to synchronize and backup data between your Mac and TNAS, ensuring that your data is safe and available at any time.
Backup From File Servers/NAS to TNAS
Tool 1: TFM Backup
To use TFM Backup, first download and install it from the TOS App Center. Then, mount the file server or NAS directory to TNAS via NFS or SMB protocol. After that, create backup tasks on the TFM Backup page to complete data backup between the mounted directory and the local directory.
Tool 2: Centralized Backup
Centralized Backup is a backup tool specifically designed for business users, which is very suitable for batch backup of computers, servers, or virtual machines, and may not be suitable for personal or household users. Please find and install Centralized Backup in the TOS App Center, and then easily create backup tasks in the "File Server" module to back up file server data to TNAS.
Tool 3: Rsync Backup
Most file servers and NAS support Rsync backup. You only need to enable the Rsync backup server on TNAS and initiate backup tasks from the file server or NAS end using Rsync to easily complete data backup.
Backup From TNAS to File Servers/NAS
Tool 1: TFM Backup
To use TFM Backup, first download and install it from the TOS App Center. Then, mount the file server or NAS directory to TNAS via NFS or SMB. Finally, create backup tasks on the TFM Backup page to easily complete data backup between the mounted directory and the local directory.
Tool 2: Duple Backup
To use Duple Backup, download and install it from the TOS App Center. Then, create backup tasks in the Duple Backup task module and select "File Server" as the backup destination to easily complete data backup.
Backup From TNAS to TNAS
Tool 1: Duple Backup
If you need to back up data between two TNAS devices, Duple Backup is your first choice. Simply install Duple Backup on the source TNAS and Duple Backup Vault on the target TNAS. Then, initiate a backup from Duple Backup and select "TNAS" as the backup destination when creating a task to easily complete the process.
Tool 2: TerraSync
TerraSync's synchronization function can help you easily synchronize data from one TNAS to another. Simply install TerraSync Client on the source TNAS and TerraSync on the target TNAS, and set the synchronization directory in the TerraSync application. Then, initiate a synchronization task through TerraSync Client to synchronize data from the source TNAS to the target TNAS.
Tool 3: TFM Backup
To use TFM Backup for backup, you need to mount one TNAS directory to another TNAS via NFS or SMB file services. Then, install TFM Backup on the mounted target TNAS to complete data backup between the local directory and the mounted directory. This method is simple and efficient, ensuring double protection for your data security.
Sync From Cloud Drives to TNAS
CloudSync
If you want to sync data from cloud drives to TNAS, simply download and install CloudSync from the TOS app center. After that, create a connection to cloud drives in CloudSync to achieve data synchronization. CloudSync is compatible with most mainstream cloud drives and provides custom synchronization frequency, bandwidth settings, and encrypted upload functions to ensure safe and flexible migration and storage of your data.
Backing up TNAS to Cloud Drives
Tool 1: Duple Backup
Duple Backup stands out for its multi-destination backup function, which can not only back up data to TNAS or file servers but also easily back up to cloud drives. You only need to install Duple Backup on TNAS and simply select "Cloud Drive" as the destination when creating a backup task. It's worth mentioning that Duple Backup is compatible with most mainstream cloud drives, providing you with more backup options.
Tool 2: CloudSync
By installing CloudSync on TNAS, you can easily achieve data synchronization between cloud drives and TNAS. CloudSync not only supports major cloud drives but also allows you to customize synchronization frequency, bandwidth, and encrypted uploads, ensuring data security and flexibility.
Backup From Windows Servers to TNAS
Centralized Backup
To use Centralized Backup on TNAS, you need to install it first. Then, download the Centralized Backup Agent to your Windows server and establish a connection between the server and TNAS through the Agent. Once connected, you can use the active backup function of Centralized Backup to perform backup operations on multiple servers from the TNAS end. In addition, Centralized Backup provides multi-version management functions, allowing you to restore backup targets. More powerful is its ability to perform centralized active backups on enterprise file servers and virtual machines, ensuring data security and integrity.
Backup Virtual Machines to TNAS
Tool 1: Centralized Backup
Centralized Backup provides powerful virtual machine backup functions. Through its active backup feature, users can back up the storage and configuration of multiple virtual machines with one click from the TNAS end. This backup solution supports virtual machines such as VMware ESXi and Windows Hyper-V. In addition, Centralized Backup is equipped with multi-version management, facilitating the recovery of backup targets.
Tool 2: Native Backup Tools for Virtual Machines
Users can mount TNAS storage space to the virtual host via NFS or iSCSI protocol, and then use the virtual machine's built-in backup tools to easily back up the virtual machine's storage space and system configuration to TNAS, achieving reliable data preservation.
Backup Between USB and TNAS
USB Copy
We can use the backup function of USB Copy to easily manage and achieve data backup between USB and TNAS. USB Copy not only supports multi-version and differential backups but also allows users to customize scheduled tasks according to their needs, providing great flexibility. To effectively prevent ransomware, USB Copy has designed a unique function: after the backup task is completed, the system will automatically unmount the USB device to ensure data security; at the same time, before the backup task starts, the system will automatically mount the USB device, providing users with a seamless backup experience. This design not only improves data security but also simplifies user operations.
