WD, for instance, only supports FTP for backing up to the box, Seagate supports SMB and FTP, while Synology doesn’t support either on many of its less-expensive boxes. Your NAS box might choose the protocol for you. FTP is almost universally supported by NAS boxes for remote-to-local backup, while for some reason, SMB isn’t always. I’ll show you how to use the backup and sync apps on a NAS box in a bit, but first you need to select a sharing/transfer protocol and configure your computers.You have two choices: SMB (Server Message Block), which is simple to set up on PCs, or FTP (File Transfer Protocol), which can work both locally and remotely. Why not just use the integrated file-sharing capabilities of computers and leverage the software on the NAS box, instead?
But if you’re like me, the last thing you want is yet another program bugging you with reminders, warnings, and other messages, not to mention chewing up CPU cycles that you might want for more useful purposes.