Cloud Backup anywhere else than S3

[morphet]

Hello everyone,

I would really like to buy an Asustor NAS but I have an issue. I would like to backup several folder (images, videos, files) from the NAS to the cloud, but it seems we can only use S3 for this.... Is it still the case ? Will we have cloud backup with Hubic ?

I know there is Sync for Hubic, but this is only to sync one folder, and this is not what I want. I want to backup every important part of my volume in case of fire, thief, etc...

Does anyone has any feedback on how to backup specific folders on the cloud without S3 ?
Will Asustor support other clouds than S3 in the near future ?

Thank you for your help !

[orion]

Not sure what you want. However, as I know, there are some cloud backup applications: HiDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive, ... You'd better to find if there is a suitable one for you from demo site. https://www.asustor.com/live_demo (simply search applications under AppCentral)

[morphet]

Thanks, but actually they are just synchronization apps : you can sychnronize your cloud account with a local folder.
What I want is backup local folders to cloud, just like you can do it using the Cloud Backup app (also available in the demo). But this one only works with S3 in demo... I don't know if next versions of ADM will add more services for cloud backup.

[orion]

Thanks, but actually they are just synchronization apps : you can sychnronize your cloud account with a local folder.
What I want is backup local folders to cloud, just like you can do it using the Cloud Backup app (also available in the demo). But this one only works with S3 in demo... I don't know if next versions of ADM will add more services for cloud backup.

Sounds that you are familiar with those quite well. I'm curious what is the difference between "synchronize" and "backup". Is it the same as backup that you do one-way synchronization? From my understanding, synchronization provide more functions than backup, isn't it?

[morphet]

One way syncho would be perfect for a backup, even having the files unencrypted. But the "sync" software on ADM will only have 1 task : sync 1 folder locally with a cloud provider. I want multiple tasks, like Duplicati, but not sure Duplicati works well.

[morphet]

Actually I'm thinking about synchronizing a local folder in which I will simply put symbolic links to the folders I want to sync. That's all. Should work !

[pafer]

I'm probably just not smart enough to figure it out, but I tried an external backup (to an attached USB drive) using a bunch of symlinks created using WinSCP but it just backed up the symlinks themselves!