Snapshots
Protect and restore your data. Easy, and fast!
Taking a snapshot is like taking a photo - within seconds the complete status of your NAS system and data is recorded. If an unexpected situation arises on your system, you can revert to the state recorded by a snapshot. With greater space-efficiency and flexibility compared to traditional backup methods, snapshots are the best way to protect your files and data.
Snapshots - A standard feature in every QNAP NAS
Advanced snapshot features
Mitigate the growing threat of ransomware
Ransomware attacks continue to increase, and they indiscriminately target businesses, infrastructure, the public sector, non-profit organizations, and home users. QNAP NAS includes comprehensive backup features and supports point-in-time snapshots to help protect and restore important files/data and avoid downtime. If ransomware attacks or an unexpected situation arises on your system, simply revert your affected files or the entire system to the previous state that the snapshot has recorded.
Easy management with Storage & Snapshots Manager
Enjoy visualized snapshot management for easily creating snapshots and restoring data to any point of time to prevent losing important data.
Restore snapshots locally or remotely
Snapshot space management and reservation strategy
A QNAP NAS will enter protection mode (where no more data can be written) if the available free space is less than 16GB. When using snapshots, you should use snapshot space management to prevent this situation from arising.
Windows Previous Versions support
Snapshots enable Windows® users to restore files directly from File Explorer simply by right clicking on files, saving time and effort without requiring help from IT staff.
Maximum snapshots
Snapshot Replica | SnapSync | RTRR (HBS) | Rsync | |
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Data backup scope | Volume/LUN | Shared folder / LUN | Shared folder | Shared folder |
Transmission mode | Block-based | Block-based | File-level file-based | File-level block-based |
Backup scheme | Transmit only modified blocks | Transmit only modified blocks | Transmit new files | Transmit new files but only with modified blocks |
Backup schedule | Scheduled | Immediate/Scheduled | Immediate/Scheduled | Scheduled |
Encryption | Support | Support | Support | Support |
Compression | Support | Support | Support | Support |
Memory requirements | At least 1GB RAM | Any | Any | Any |
Supported system | QNAP NAS (QTS, QuTS hero) |
QNAP NAS (QuTS hero, QES) |
QNAP NAS (QTS, QuTS hero) |
Rsync Server |
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QNAP’s full suite of backup & data protection solutions
Lifetime, license-free and Lifetime and comprehensive solutions for virtually all data protection requirements. Discover an array of apps and utilities for total backup planning, including:
Boxafe – Google Workspace /Microsoft 365 SaaS backup
Hyper Data Protector – Windows PC/server, VMware vSphere/Microsoft Hyper-V VM backup
Hybrid Backup Sync – QNAP NAS/file server/macOS backup
NetBak PC Agent – Windows PC/server backup utility
Multi-Application Recovery Service (MARS) – Google Photos/WordPress backup
Qfile Pro – Mobile photos/video backup
QmailAgent – Email backup for Gmail™/Yahoo®/Outlook®
Snapshot – QNAP NAS protection/backup
>> Learn more about QNAP’s backup & data protection solutions