Back Up Your NAS to the Cloud — Encrypted, From Your PC
Back up NAS folders to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or any cloud you own — encrypted with AES-256 before upload, on a schedule, with versioning. Runs from your Windows PC.
A NAS feels safe — RAID, your own hardware, your own closet. But RAID is redundancy, not backup: it won't save you from accidental deletion, ransomware that reaches the share, or the fire that takes the whole closet. The missing piece is an off-site, versioned copy of the folders that matter — and you can run it from the Windows PC that already sits next to the NAS.
How it works
BackupKit runs on your Windows PC and treats the NAS like any other folder: you map the NAS share as a network drive (or use its UNC path), select the folders you want protected as the backup source, and pick a cloud destination you already own — Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, pCloud, Box, MEGA, or your own server over SFTP/WebDAV. Each run is compressed, encrypted with AES-256 on the PC, and uploaded as a versioned archive.
- Map the NAS share on the PC: in File Explorer,
Map network drive→ e.g.\\nas\photosasZ:. Use a NAS account with read access. - Connect your cloud in BackupKit — sign into Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or add an SFTP/WebDAV server.
- Create the job: source = the mapped NAS folders; destination = a folder in your cloud, e.g.
/nas-backup. - Configure AES-256 encryption, a nightly or weekly schedule, and retention (e.g. keep the last 30 versions).
- Enable failure notifications — email or Telegram — so a full disk or an unreachable NAS never fails silently.
BackupKit is a Windows app — the PC reads from the NAS over your LAN and uploads to the cloud, so it needs to be on (or waking) at backup time. BackupKit's missed-run policy handles a PC that was off: run immediately when it's back, skip, or wait for the next slot. If you need the NAS itself to push to the cloud with no PC involved, your NAS vendor's own tool (Synology Hyper Backup, QNAP HBS 3) is the right category — what BackupKit adds is client-side encryption, uniform versioned archives across all your storage, and one dashboard for every backup you run.
Why not just sync the NAS to the cloud?
Sync tools mirror — including mirroring a deletion or an encrypted-by-ransomware file straight into your cloud copy. Backup semantics are different: point-in-time versions, retention you control, and archives encrypted before upload so the cloud provider can't read your data. That last part matters most for a NAS, which tends to hold the family photo archive and a decade of documents.
Related
- Back up a Synology to Google Drive — the Synology-specific walkthrough.
- Back up Windows to a NAS — the opposite direction.
- Automated encrypted cloud backups
- 3-2-1 backup planner
- AES-256 encryption
Coming August 2026
Back up anything to anywhere — encrypted, scheduled, automated. Join the waitlist and be first to know when BackupKit is ready — the founding license is $69 lifetime for the first 100 buyers at launch.