Requirements and Limitations

This section provides you with important information on deployment limitations and supported environments of different devices.

You may refer to following sections to learn more details regarding different devices and deployment requirements.

NAS Requirements and Limitations

To install Active Backup for Business, a NAS device runs DSM 6.1.7 or above is required and only x64 Synology NAS servers and Btrfs file system is supported. For backup performance, it is recommended to have at least 4G of RAM and not to set up the shared folder quota due to deduplication mechanism.

Note:If your NAS runs on DSM 6.2 Beta, please update DSM to the newest version before installing Active Backup for Business.

Personal Computer Requirements and Limitations

Active Backup for Business supports backing up end-point devices running on Windows platform.

Note: The beta version does not support backing up dynamic disks. Backup task would fail if the protected device contains dynamic disks.

Physical Server Requirements and Limitations

For backing up physical server, Active Backup for Business supports Windows operating system.

Note: The beta version does not support backing up dynamic disks. Backup task would fail if the protected device contains dynamic disks.

File Server Requirements and Limitations

For backing up file server, Active Backup for Business supports the servers running with SMB (Windows) and rsync 3.0 or above (Linux) protocol. You may back up data to your Synology NAS using Active Backup for Business.

Note: The beta version does not support backing up dynamic disks. Backup task would fail if the protected device contains dynamic disks.

Virtual Machine Requirements and Limitations

This section provides you with important information on deployment limitations and supported virtual machine (VM) environments.