Did you opt for a NAS to ensure that your files are safe? Technically speaking with a NAS your files are scattered over the different drives in your NAS, so whenever one drive files you can replace it and rebuild the data. However, in the event that your entire NAS dies, multiple drives die, or there are corrupt sectors during a rebuild, you might lose part of your data. That's why it is essential to back up your data in multiple places in different ways, i.e. Google for the 3-2-1 backup rule. This article will explain how you can set up a job from your Synology NAS to back up your data to another NAS or drive using rsync.

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