The Synology then behaves exactly like it was an external drive attached to the Mac you format the drive using Disk Utility, and BackBlaze will see it as a local drive and back it up. However, this is probably NOT what you want. There are paid versions available, and I believe free versions as well. This is not natively supported by MacOS, and requires software called “SCSI initiator” to be installed on the Mac. With both your Mac and the Synology on your LAN, you basically make some or all of the Synology storage look like a local drive, via an interface that looks like SCSI, but uses Ethernet as the underlying hardware rather than a (now obsolete) SCSI hardware interface and cable. There is a way to connect the Synology so that it looks like a local disk, and that is to use SCSI over Ethernet. I always want my backup strategies to be reliable. You may be able to “fool” BackBlaze by mounting Synology shares to non-standard locations as describe above, but I would be reluctant to rely on that approach in that it is possible for the BackBlaze software to detect such mount points and you might find your backups silently fail at some point. You cannot connect the Synology to your Mac via USB there is no software on either end to make this connection work.īackBlaze backup is not designed to allow backups of network shares.

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