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Hello,

does that remote storage support WebDAV protocol?
If so, you can easily upload your archives using the WebDAV post processing option.

What you want to do is something impossible:
You want to block the access to your NAS from the internet for security reasons, but you want your site (which is in the Internet) to write backups on your NAS.

As you can see, you can't do that. What you can do is to run Akeeba Remote Control CLI on a machine on inside your network: it will trigger the backup and then download it where you want.

The fact that it looks like Dropbox, it doesn't mean it is Dropbox.
Are you using exactly the same API of Dropbox? You can give it a try, but I hardly doubt they are the same, because that would mean you have Dropbox source code.

As I already explained before, the easiest and fastest way to connect to a new remote service storage is to use WebDAV.
If supported, Synology should give you username, password and url that you should use to connect a folder on your computer to the remote storage.
Instead of connecting a folder on your computer, you can use the exactly same access details to connect your site to the remote service.

Dear Kostas,

As you can read in Synology's page the Cloud Station is deigned to sync data between your Synology DiskStation and existing third party cloud services such as Dropbox and S3. It DOES NOT offer a Dropbox-compatible or S3-compatible API for accessing the data stored into your DiskStation.

As you may also note, Synology does NOT offer an API for third party developers like ourselves to have access to DSM from outside the Synology hardware. The API they offer only applies to running software INSIDE the NAS hardware itself. As such it will be impossible for us to develop a solution which connects to your NAS since there is no way to talk to it directly.

That said, YOU CAN ALREADY USE your Sinology DiskStation with Akeeba Backup. As you can read for yourself on Synology's site they support access to the NAS using FTP, SFTP and WebDAV, all three methods already supported by Akeeba Backup.

Please note that SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol over SSH2) is as secure as it gets. If for your own reasons you don't want to enable it, sorry, but the problem is with your own, self-imposed restrictions, not our software. We give you three ways to talk to your NAS (FTP/FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV) but you want to use none of them.

Therefore I have to correct you.

so the answer is then:
Yes, there are three options already to auto-upload backups to the cloud station. You do not want to use any way to transfer data over the Internet, but somehow want to transfer data between two different machines on different networks connected only over the Internet to which there is also no workaround...

And since you are asking us for something impossible (transfer data over the Internet without using the Internet) we are deeply sorry but we cannot provide a practical solution. As a result I will have to close this ticket with a final advice: use SFTP.