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Backup NAS to Cloud: Online NAS Backup to Amazon S3, Google Drive, OneDrive

NAS cloud backup is the term that means the technique of saving a copy of your network-attached storage (or some of its crucial content) by doing some NAS backup over Internet. Handy Backup allows you making backup NAS to cloud, automating every step.

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Online Backup NAS to Cloud: Basic Principles

Consider the Size of NAS Cloud Backup

If you want to backup your NAS online, the first thing you must take into considerations is a backup size, as NAS units are often have much more storage capability than typical cloud accounts. Handy Backup allows you selecting between many clouds to backup your NAS, choosing the most capable vault!

Speed up Network Data Exchange

Backup NAS to cloud is not a fast activity, and it loads the network heavily. To minimize both size of backups and network usage, Handy Backup contains some technical solutions including incremental and differential backup, as well as compressing your NAS offsite backup data to shrink a traffic!

Securing or Simplifying Online NAS Backup

In cloud backup NAS data are prone to accidental or unscrupulous access. To secure these data, Handy Backup allows encrypting the information with a built-in feature. If not to do such a thing, Handy Backup stores all data of online backup for NAS in their native formats, making simple an access to these data!

Many Clouds for Many Tasks: Backup NAS Drive to Cloud of Your Dream

As the NAS backup solution, Handy Backup contains several plug-ins, including all the most popular cloud services. These plug-in often use particular cloud API functions, requiring no third-party software or bridge websites to work properly.

Microsoft OneDrive	Google Drive
NAS users commonly opt for onedrive automatic backup as their standard choice for online backup on Windows. For NAS backup OneDrive provides speed, comfort and a relevant level of security, linking your NAS data with your personal Microsoft account.	NAS backup to Google Drive opens a couple of advantages over a user, including sharing, modifying, granular restore (especially in junction with using the native data format) and quickly replicating NAS data.
Dropbox	Amazon S3
Again, when you store your NAS backup to Dropbox, you will get a quick access and a fast replication of any data you back up. In both cases, the NAS cloud backup can overflow the synchronized folder on your PC! Learn more How to Backup Dropbox locally or online.	NAS backup to Amazon S3 is an option for advanced and business-level users. Although costly, Amazon S3 provides the best quality and security of data keeping, making it a recommended solution for big amounts of different data.

Many Clouds for Many Tasks: Backup NAS Drive to Cloud of Your Dream

Other Cloud Services

Besides the described collection of biggest and most popular commercial clouds in the world, Handy Backup supports some other cloud services including Yandex.Disk, Box, 4shared and Xref for AutoCAD. It also contains a connection plug-in to its own dedicated backup cloud called HBDrive.

Private Clouds and WebDAV Backup

Another great option is turning your NAS unit into a private cloud, i.e. a cloud that you own. Handy Backup has the universal option to access any of these private clouds, making a WebDAV connection between a cloud and other components of the backup solution.

General Advantages of Backup NAS to Cloud with Handy Backup

In addition to crucial features mentioned above, Handy Backup provides much more advantages for online backup for NAS:

Scheduling your tasks to an exact time, with a repeating period from months to minutes;
Running missed tasks, as well as event-related tasks (e.g., making a cloud backup NAS on logon);
Reporting about any task activity, either through logs and reports or by email notifications;
"Stealth" running as a Windows service, reducing user distraction by removing an interface;
Operating tasks along with other programs started before/after the NAS cloud backup.

Organizing Backup NAS to Cloud with Handy Backup

As described above, Handy Backup provides a plenty of choices to make NAS cloud backup. You can use "Network", "FTP", "SFTP" or "FTPS" plug-ins, as well as the "WebDAV" plug-in, to access your NAS configured as a particular storage type, as well as any cloud plug-ins as the destination.