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There are many powerful applications in QNAP NAS, but for many users, the first hurdle is often the app names themselves. We’ve noticed that many users browsing QNAP NAS apps are often puzzled by certain app names — What do these names mean? What problems can they help solve? With so many native QNAP apps, some with especially unique names, it’s no surprise that users are left wondering.
In this article, we’ll introduce some practical QNAP NAS apps, including their naming logic and features, helping you choose the right tools more intuitively and use them more smoothly and efficiently. Whether you’re new to QNAP or a long-time advanced user, this article will help you rediscover these commonly used apps and truly realize the full value of your NAS.
The “Q” Series Apps
Many QNAP apps start with the letter “Q” and incorporate creative spellings or abbreviations in their names, which can make it difficult for some users to immediately grasp their purpose. Next, we’ll break down the actual functions of these apps and the ideas behind their names:
QsirchNaming Logic: “Q” + “sirch” – “sirch” is a creative variation of the word “search,” indicating QNAP NAS’s search tool.
Features: Qsirch is a powerful full-text search engine that quickly searches for documents, images, and videos on the NAS. It allows easy switching between standard search (keyword/AI semantic) and RAG search, and includes AI OCR for image-based text recognition and data extraction.
AI semantic search can deeply understand the meaning and context of user queries, identifying relevant images so users can retrieve files without struggling to recall file names or capture dates during their search.
Meanwhile, RAG search integrates cloud-based large language models (LLMs) to rapidly deliver accurate information, analysis, and insights, serving as an AI-powered knowledge management system for users.
Related article: A Powerful Tool for Enterprise Auditing! QNAP RAG AI Search Consolidates Documents Within 30 Seconds, Making ISO/GDPR/SOX Compliance Effortless
QuMagieNaming Logic: “Q” + “Magic” – “Magie” is a creative twist on “Magic”, representing a handy assistant for image processing with a magical touch. In Chinese, it also sounds like “Q Maji”, meaning “Q Buddy”, a friendly companion that individual and family users often rely on.
Features: An intelligent photo management tool that includes AI facial recognition, automatic categorization by location and time, theme tags, and a timeline view for your albums. Similar to Google Photos and other cloud-based photo albums, QuMagie also allows users to easily share photos with family and friends via email, social media, or shareable links.
When used together with the QuMagie Mobile app, photos and videos from your phone can be automatically uploaded to the NAS for safe backup, freeing up your phone’s storage.
QsyncNaming Logic: “Q” + “Sync”, QNAP’s synchronization tool.
Features: A cross-device synchronization and backup tool that enables one-way or two-way syncing of folders across computers, laptops, and mobile devices. It supports team collaboration and file versioning.
The most common synchronization method is to install the Qsync Client on your computer. Simply drag and drop files into the Qsync folder, any changes will be automatically synced across all devices connected to the NAS, making it easy to support the needs of remote work and team collaboration.
Qsync also offers backup functionality, allowing users to regularly back up files from Windows®/Mac® computers to the NAS. This protects important files and folders from loss or accidental deletion, enabling quick recovery at any time!
QuWANNaming Logic: “Q” + “WAN” (Wide Area Network), representing QNAP’s SD-WAN networking solution.
Features: An enterprise-grade SD-WAN solution that automates the deployment of a Mesh VPN. With the cloud-based QuWAN Orchestrator, you can enjoy one-stop centralized management of QNAP QHora routers and NAS devices across multiple locations, making it ideal for connecting multi-branch offices.
Hybrid Series: Function-oriented design with “Hybrid Backup Architecture” as its core
Hybrid Backup Sync (HBS)Naming Logic: “Hybrid” represents support for multiple sources – local, remote, and cloud; “Backup Sync” highlights the core functions – backup and synchronization.
Features: QNAP’s most essential backup tool, supporting scheduling, multi-version backups, compression, encryption, and notifications. Suitable for individuals and enterprises building the 3-2-1-1-0 backup strategy.
With HBS, users can easily back up NAS files to the cloud or other NAS devices, building a more secure data storage strategy.
Learn More: The Most Comprehensive Enterprise Backup and Recovery Solution
Hybrid Backup Center (HBC)Naming Logic: Building on HBS’s “Hybrid Backup” naming convention, the addition of “Center” represents centralized management of backup tasks.
Features: HBC provides a unified interface for centrally managing backup tasks across multiple NAS devices. It supports scheduling, task monitoring, status charts, and alert notifications.
HybridMountNaming Logic: “Hybrid” continues the concept of a hybrid data architecture, while “Mount” clearly indicates the function of mounting remote storage resources. This naming highlights the integration of external storage services into the local NAS system, enabling a hybrid cloud application model.
Features: HybridMount allows users to mount mainstream public cloud services (such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive) or remote NAS devices to a local QNAP NAS. Files can then be quickly accessed and managed just like local folders, with unlimited mounting capacity at no cost! Once mounted, users can centrally manage all files through File Station, eliminating the hassle of dealing with data scattered across various public and private clouds.
HybridMount also supports file-based cloud gateway functionality, temporarily caching cloud files in the NAS’s local HybridMount Cache Space. This enables frequently accessed cloud files to be retrieved quickly, just like local storage.
Other Function-oriented Apps: Emphasizing function positioning through abbreviations or compound terminology
BoxafeNaming Logic: “Box” symbolizes cloud storage (e.g., Google Drive or OneDrive); “Safe” conveys the idea of data security and backup protection.
Features: Boxafe is an enterprise-grade SaaS data backup solution designed for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. It backs up emails, calendars, cloud drives, and contacts, and supports centralized account management to ensure business security for enterprises.
For example, when an employee resigns from the company, administrators can restore and transfer their data to another employee’s account. Files stored in Shared Drive/SharePoint can also be restored to other Shared Drive/SharePoint, preventing data loss caused by account deletion after an employee leaves the company.
Hyper Data Protector (HDP)Naming Logic: “Hyper” emphasizes high speed or high performance, while “Data Protector” reflects its primary mission of safeguarding data, highlighting that this is a high-efficiency tool specifically designed for data backup.
Features: A backup solution for VMware® and Hyper-V virtual machines, as well as full-system backups for Windows PCs.
HDP supports agentless backup, multi-version control, scheduled backups, backup compression, encryption, and data restoration. It enables enterprises to build a cost-effective VM backup infrastructure using NAS without additional licensing fees or third-party software.
Read More: How to Back Up Virtual Servers to QNAP NAS with Hyper Data Protector
In addition to backups for virtualized environments, Hyper Data Protector can also integrate with QNAP’s NetBak PC Agent to perform full-system backups for physical Windows computers and servers, including system settings, applications, and user data. Users can restore the entire computer to a previous state, resolving issues caused by computer failures or data loss.
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VJBOD (Virtual JBOD) V.S VJBOD Cloud
VJBOD (Virtual JBOD) Network Virtual Storage Expansion Enclosure
Naming Logic: “VJBOD” stands for Virtual JBOD, referring to the virtualization of a QNAP NAS’s storage space to make it available for use by another NAS, achieving the goal of software-defined storage.
Features: VJBOD allows one NAS to mount its storage space onto another NAS via iSCSI, enabling multiple NAS devices to share storage resources. This consolidates underutilized storage for centralized usage, achieving flexible allocation and integration of storage capacity.
VJBOD Cloud Block-based Cloud Gateway
Naming Logic: The name “VJBOD Cloud” builds on VJBOD by adding “Cloud” to highlight its functionality of extending NAS storage capacity to the cloud, enabling hybrid cloud data backup.
Features: VJBOD Cloud allows public cloud object storage, such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob, and Backblaze B2, to be mounted as virtual disks on the NAS with block-level access. It supports caching, local snapshots, and encryption. When uploading data to the cloud, only the data blocks updated since the last backup are transmitted, effectively reducing backup time and storage usage. VJBOD Cloud is suitable for enterprises building cold data backup architectures or implementing cloud backups for large databases or LUNs. It effectively reduces storage costs and bandwidth usage while maintaining access performance and data security.
Choose the Right Tools for a Smoother, Easier Workflow
All QNAP apps actually follow naming conventions. Through this article, we hope to help you quickly grasp the logic behind each app’s name and function, so that the next time you open the App Center, you’ll have a clear sense of purpose and can fully leverage all of your NAS’s capabilities.
