#SYNOLOGY CLOUD STATION BACKUP FOR MAC INSTALL#
#SYNOLOGY CLOUD STATION BACKUP FOR MAC SOFTWARE#

This table contains all of the information to connect to the Synology. The first table in this database is the connection_table.

Here’s the breakdown of the sys.sqlite file.

#SYNOLOGY CLOUD STATION BACKUP FOR MAC INSTALL#

There are five values we’ll need to update per install so that we don’t have all of our machines backing up on top of each other. This file contains most of our configuration. Go ahead and exit the app (right click the menu item -> exit.)ġ5. Open the invisible ~/.CloudStationBackup folderġ6. Copy out ~/.CloudStationBackup/data/db/sys.sqlite file Once you’re done with the setup wizard the client will start backing up. On the Summary click Done and then click No need. Walk through the steps until you get to the Summary screen. In this step you’ll want to enter the connection details using the backup user from step one. Once installed it’ll open a setup wizard.ġ4. Walk through the setup wizard and configure the Cloud Station Backup We’re going to install this on a test machine first, so that we can grab two configuration files.

#SYNOLOGY CLOUD STATION BACKUP FOR MAC SOFTWARE#

Install the Cloud Station Backup software on a test machine or VM You can come back and edit any of this if you ever want to make any changes and it will download the new sync profile to the backup client.ġ3. This should finalize your Cloud Station Server configuration. Click Apply to save the settings configuration Click the Applied User tab, check your backup user, and then click Applyġ2. You can also add file extensions at the bottom like this: *.dmgġ1. Give it a name and uncheck any file types that you don’t want to be backed upġ0. Click User Sync Profiles and click Createĩ. Configure versioning how you’d like it and then click OKĨ. Select the share you just created and click Enableħ. Download the Cloud Station Backup softwareĦ. These credentials will be deployed to connect Cloud Station Backup to your Synology.Ģ. Install Cloud Station Server on your SynologyĤ. I recommend creating a specific user for this with a long random password. Give a user account read/write access to this folder.

Create a new Shared Folder to use as your Cloud Station Backup destination.

I used VMware Fusion for testing and Munki for deployment. To get this setup I used a text editor for scripts, DB Browser for SQLite to review the SQLite databases, and Packages to create my configuration package. This post will walk you through deploying Synology’s Cloud Station Backup on macOS.

Synology cloud station backup for mac