A storage system includes processing circuitry configured to detect a file operation in a folder of a first storage, sequentially register information of files having undergone a change as a file replication processing target in a database, execute file replication processing to sequentially replicate each individual file of the files registered as the file replication processing target to a second storage, execute folder replication processing to replicate the folder to the second storage, in the folder replication processing, exclude a file belonging to the folder for the folder replication processing from the file replication processing target, and execute the file replication processing in parallel with the folder replication processing when the information of the file having undergone a change has been registered as the file replication processing target in the database during the folder replication processing.