What is the best way to back up macbook air to qnap

I've had the macbook air since January and this is the 4th or 5th time I've had to start the Timemachine backups from scratch. This time it's not working at all
Every time we have to restart the qnap for any reason the time machine fails. It tells me the back up cannot be verified and wants to start a new back-up. This means I can't go back before a point in time. This time is even worse because it spends a couple of minutes trying to connect to the qnap, then ignores it and tries to create the backup on my mac (1.5 million days and counting)
I don't want to buy a time capsule when we have sufficient kit. I don't want to get into all the geek stuff - I want something that works without me having to spend the night googling obscure answers. In short, I want self evident solutions like you get with the iphone. Clearly the qnap and time machine are not reliably compatible.
My question is - what toolset can I use with my macbook to automate backups, with minimum intervention, to a qnap or other non-Apple device?
Thanks in advance

Use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper.
Despite what the QNAP says, Apple doesn't support backing up to anything over a network except a Time Capsule or an external directly connected to another Mac.

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