Storage Analyzer
Storage Analyzer allows you to have a quick glance at the overall usage trends of your Synology NAS, create and manage tasks to analyze storage spaces, and generate detailed reports on volume usage. You can select report types, set a schedule to receive periodic storage reports, and easily view previous reports that match the specified time or criteria. With Storage Analyzer, it becomes a lot easier and more efficient to manage your system and modify your settings according to the analysis. For instance, based on its analysis reports, you can delete files rarely accessed to release space for other usages, increase the quota for users with larger demand, or install more storage space to meet the need and usage trends.
Note:
- Only users belonging to the administrators group are allowed to use the features of Storage Analyzer. This is because generated reports may contain sensitive information, such as folder and file paths, and account names.
Backup and Restore
You can back up Storage Analyzer and restore it to a previous version via the Hyper Backup package. Before you start backing up Storage Analyzer, you need to install Hyper Backup from Package Center.
To back up Storage Analyzer:
- Go to Hyper Backup to create a backup task.
- Follow the Backup Wizard, and choose Storage Analyzer when you are prompted to select applications to back up.
- After the backup task is complete, the following Storage Analyzer configurations will be backed up:
- Global setting
- Report profile
To restore Storage Analyzer:
- Go to Hyper Backup to restore the desired backup task.
- After the restore task is complete, the current settings and configurations of Storage Analyzer will be overwritten.