Can Feiniu NAS support Synology's SHR and full-system backup? Signature features are checked one by one—half can be affordable, half need a different approach

last year, after I switched my main machine to Feiniu, the month I felt most awkward was right after I switched to it. Searching "how to open NAS snapshots" only yields screenshots from DSM; Searching for 'How to build arrays on two different disks'—nine out of ten suggest using SHR, but I searched Feiniu's storage settings three times and couldn't find these three letters. The menu didn't match, and at one point I wondered if I had installed a low-health version.

later, I managed both the Feiniu at home and my mom's old Synology DS220J together for over half a year, and finally settled the score: some of Synology's signature features were native to Feiniu, some were just renamed, and the only real missing were two things. There are ways to bypass the two missing items, but it requires a bit more effort. Let's go through the check-ins one by one.

first, I want to talk about things you can copy directly: snapshots, albums, etc.—Feiniu has them themselves

Let me correct my biggest misunderstanding at the time: not that all Synology tutorials couldn't be used, but that the menu names didn't match. Synology has a suite called Snapshot Replication, which timers to take snapshots of shared folders, and if accidentally deleted, they roll back. Feiniu still has this feature, provided there's only one thing—the day you set up the storage space, you chose Btrfs. At that time, I used two drives: one Btrfs and one ext4. The Btrfs drive could take snapshots, but the ext4 drive had no option and I thought the system was broken. I calculated this selection plan in detail in the of ext4 and Btrfs: you need a snapshot, you have to pick the right banner on the day you set it up, and there's no regret in making changes after slotting.

snapshot is so life-saving that I've seen it with my own eyes. My husband deleted six months' worth of phone photos as duplicate catalogs in one go, and that night they even cleared the recycle bin. In the end, they managed to recover the entire photo just as it was with a snapshot taken every hour. It took less than ten minutes, accidentally deleted the rescue post the entire process. On Synology's side, snapshots can be set to take every five minutes and copy to another device. Feiniu's snapshot management interface is simpler, so you have to set it up yourself to keep the strategy, but at home, this level is more than enough.

photo album is the same. Synology's Synology Photos appears frequently in tutorials, while Feiniu's version corresponds to the built-in photo album app. After installing the app on the phone and checking auto backup, over 40,000 photos and more than 300GB are stored on the NAS, and facial recognition is also enabled. It took a day and a half to create an index for 40,000 photos. I tested all of this in two photos and facial recognition . So the first conclusion is: for everyday features like snapshots, albums, movies, and Docker, Feiniu doesn't owe much. Just copy the ideas from the tutorials—just recognize the functions, not the menu names.

SHR really doesn't exist: the mixed capacity pallet calculates this account first

then acts and next comes the first thing that is truly lacking. SHR is proprietary to Synology; Feiniu's system doesn't even have this option. This isn't a version issue—it's that they simply don't open source. It addresses specific scenarios: two drives with different capacities, like 4TB versus 8TB, SHR will automatically tier, and the available space can reach 8TB. I've calculated this in my SHR and RAID1 comparison .

Feiniu's side, the same two plots have only two paths. First, set up a standard RAID 1, cut the smaller available space, leaving only 4TB, half the 8TB drive wasting idle capacity. Second, use both disks separately—4T plus 8T, totaling 12T—but no redundancy at all—lose every piece you use. My choice at the time was divide and conquer: for photo drives that were a huge loss, I obediently RAID1 with two drives of the same capacity; If a download disk breaks, you can reinstall it. Run a single drive and use backup strategies as a backup. This strategy of partitioning by market position was written in the on how to choose RAID, and it has nothing to do with whether SHR is available.

the real conclusion of SHR's game is: already on Feiniu, with mixed capacity drives in hand, they have to choose one or the other and accept the loss; For those who haven't bought yet, it's actually simple—just buy two units of the same capacity, and you won't get the loss from SHR from the start. The cost is that on the day of the purchase, you can't just pick up cheap scraps.

the biggest loophole is the full-system backup: you have to patch up the computer yourself

The second thing really lacking is Active Backup for Business, which is Synology's full system backup. It can back up the entire family computer to the NAS at the block level, and if the system crashes, plug in a USB drive and restore the whole system in half an hour. It's free and unlimited on the number of devices. the about building three computers to calculate the storage after rebooting. Feiniu has no equip, which I believe is the only major flaw since switching the system.

breaking down the needs, this matter isn't desperate. Most people don't want a "whole mirror," but "don't throw away files." Feiniu can handle the file layer: Mac Time Machine has been natively supported since version 0.8.27. Just check the control panel and it can serve as a target for Time Machine. Remember to set the quota strictly—I didn't set it on my first trip, it quietly consumes over 700GB. On Windows, you just use the built-in file history and point to the NAS network location. By default, only backups are made up of libraries and desktops, and you have to add the D drive yourself. I've completed the entire process of backing up both sets the computer version. When the system crashes and you reinstall and drag files back, it's a hassle but not a single hair of data is missing.

you really need a full disk of mirroring, for example, if your computer has a bunch of pre-configured development environments, then install a whole image software on your computer and store the image files in the NAS's shared directory, so the NAS obediently acts as a repository disk. Speaking of price differences, it's that the restoration step takes a few hours longer than Synology's bare-phone restoration, and I accept that cost.

Sync Disks Don't Have to Worry: Feiniu Sync Three-Mode One-to-One Ratio, Syncthing Still Profits Remote Money

Synology Drive is another high-frequency term in the tutorial: two-way sync, upload-only, and download-only. I've fallen into the trap of accidental deletion and transmission along with sync—Drive article dedicated to it. This Feiniu alternative is the easiest for me: the official version has 'Feiniu Sync.' Both Windows and Mac have clients, and you can create tasks by connecting to your NAS and authorizing them. The three modes are almost one-to-one—bidirectional sync mirrors both ends, only uploading means the computer deletes the NAS but keeps it, and only downloading reverses. I was too lazy to even change the name, just follow Synology's tutorial and use it directly.

my setup is to set the work directory to only upload, cutting off the path of accidental deletion and infection at the root. The trade-off is that I occasionally accumulate a few ### #开头的冲突文件 on the NAS, and manually clean them whenever I see them. To be fair, Feiniu Sync is more straightforward than Drive. For example, the filtering rules only go up to the "exclude by size and format" layer. The system drive and OneDrive directory will remind you not to select them, but advanced features like version rollback are absent.

even more appealing is another: Syncthing. Since the end of October 2024, Feiniu has been installing it in the App Center, allowing it to be installed with one click in the backup sync category, without needing to touch Docker commands. It is P2P direct connection; after two devices are added, even if one is home and the other is at the office, different local networks can automatically synchronize without any internal network penetration. This point, in turn, puts Synology in the spotlight—if Drive wants to sync across networks, it still needs to leverage the QuickConnect relay channel. So in this synchronized match, Feiniu not only didn't lose, but actually profited a bit.

Hyper Backup work: rsync and rclone relay

Synology also has Hyper Backup, which handles incremental and deduplication backups, pushing data to another machine or the cloud. Feiniu doesn't have this kit, but I pieced it together in three sections. First paragraph: Remote location: Using rsync to run SSH timing between two NAS. My Feiniu is the source, and my mom's old Synology is a target device, running automatically at 3:30 a.m. The photo library of over 200GB was pushed over two nights. How to create password-free login permissions and scheduled tasks? the remote backup post have ready-made commands to copy.

second paragraph, cloud: Using rclone to push the most critical items onto NutCloud's WebDAV, work documents, scanned IDs, password database, and home data files add up to over 600MB. The free version of Nut Cloud only uploads 1GB per month. Don't even think about stuffing the entire photo library into it. With that limit, it can be uploaded for over ten years, and just storing small files that could cause big problems if lost is just right. Nut Cloud even explains how to generate app passwords. Third section, cold backup: a retired 4TB drive, synchronized every six months, SHA256 checklist reconciliation and stuffed back into the anti-static bag in the drawer, details of cold backup also separately recorded.

three segments are actually the 3-2-1 rule the ledger set: local redundancy, one off-site portion, one offline portion. Synology handled everything with just one kit, while Feiniu had to assemble three tools by themselves, which took twice as much effort, but holding each layer in their own hands actually gave them peace of mind.

Remote Access This game is worth the Flying Bull game. Pull out the main account to check

and finally talk about the ranged game. Synology's QuickConnect is well-known, but its trunk channel shares bandwidth, and in actual tests, it's only a few megabytes per second. During peak times, it's all about luck. I discussed the principle of slow speed and the acceleration methods in QuickConnect . Feiniu's FN remote direct connection means no public IP needed, so you can connect home directly when out and about, with speeds running right up your home broadband. In this game, Feiniu not only didn't lose but also played smoothly.

compile the results of more than half a year of reconciliation into a single table:

Who should resist using Feiniu: tight budget, the drive already has the same capacity, and the main need is daily functions like photo and video downloads— The first four rows in the table above are enough for you; the two missing items can be filled with extra effort. Who should go straight to Synology: those with drives of different capacities for peace of mind, those who want to back up three to five computers in their family for a full backup, or those who don't want to bother with the suite ecosystem. How do these two groups choose? In my comparison between Synology and Feiniu I have a more comprehensive six-axis chart. My answer is that I keep both, but if you ask which one I actually entrust the data to, it's my own Feiniu—every layer of backup is connected by me wire-by-wire. I know exactly what goes wrong, how to fix it, and I know exactly what happens.