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Baking up to UNAS-Pro from Synology - Enquiries - 01-16-2026
Perhaps you could do a video on backing up from a Synology NAS (or other brand) to a UNAS. UNAS has good options for backing up its data but it has been hard for me to find a way to backup to the UNAS, which is what I purchased it for.
My current method is to map UNAS shares in Synology and then use a rsync script in Synology Task Manager to backup to those mapped folders.
I started with the script:
rsync -av /volume1/SynologyFolder /volume1/backups/UNAS_Mapped_Folder
That worked but was extremely slow. I then found out I could run multiple instances in parralel so I moved to this script, running on the Synology (with a lot more folders not listed here):
rsync -av --exclude='@eaDir*' /volume1/music /volume1/backups/UNAS_Share &
rsync -av --exclude='@eaDir*' /volume1/photo /volume1/backups/UNAS_Share &
wait
Unifi support informs me that installing rsync through SSH on the UNAS would violate support so the indirect folder method seems to be all I can do. An app would be much prefered.