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Synology is a company best known for its Network Attached Storage (NAS) product line.

Synology is a Taiwanese company which mainly produces NAS for consumer, prosumer and business.

The Synology's NAS are basically small form factor computers (ARM or Atom based) with a small Linux OS embedded.

More information on Wikipedia: Synology article

Synology web site: www.synology.com

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Ubuntu rsync to synology: IP denied

I am trying to sync my (new) Ubuntu webserver directory to my Synology NAS. Network backup is enabled, when I do a dry run: rsync --dry-run . rsync://root@192.168.1.150 It shows the available modules. When I try to sync with rsync it fails with the…
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Synology Server. Bipolar ports and connections are driving me insane

I've never worked with a Synology server before so maybe it is something entirely obvious I am missing- but down to the letter, I've set up the Apache Web Server that came pre-installed. Now occasionally when I hit port 80 (curl or through web…
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Diskstation backup tasks being deleted?

We use a diskstation as a backup destination for most of the servers on our network. Daily, these backups are sent to an external hard drive using the backup and restore tool. Drives are swapped each day. We have two backups for user data and mail…
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Removing chroot jail on Synology Diskstation 4.1

I'm administrating a Synology Diskstation 412 with DSM 4.1 and I need to be able to upload files to the filesystem via SFTP. However, when I enable the built-in SFTP server in the DSM, it always jails me to my home directory. I've tried to change…
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How to get more informatin regarding a Synology S.M.A.R.T error

I have a 3TB Seagate Barracuda (ST3000DM001-9YN1) that is less than a year old, and my Synology DS1512+ is reporting it as "S.M.A.R.T. Status = Abnormal" and telling me to replace the drive. While I appreciate that I am being warned about an…
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How to make sure rsync sets proper file permissions?

I'm transfering data from a synology box to a debian box with rsync. Unfortunately the permissions of all transfered files are set to rwxrwxrwx on the debian box. I want to make sure this files can be seen by the owning user only. Is there a way to…
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NAS Hard drive configuration advice?

Just got a 4 bay NAS. I want to set it up as optimal as possible. I was thinking of getting 3 x 1TB hard drives and setting up as RAID 5. The disk usage will probably be around 1TB max but there is scope for a bit more. I was then going to get 1 x…
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Synology NAS server for home network?

I am considering a Synology DS1511+ for my a development network. I was going down the Drobo Pro FS road until I discovered that their performance is fairly weak. This is sad because a friend of mine founded the company. Other friends haves…
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UPS network shutdown for Synology and ESXi, USB UPS

I have had a USB UPS for a while now and although I've never had a power outage with it and my Synology NAS, in testing it's worked great connected just with USB to the NAS. Now I've added an ESXi node that uses the NAS for storage. So in the event…
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Can you copy a file to share with scheduled task not logged in?

On Server 2016, I'm trying to copy a file to a synology drive. I want the scheduled task to perform this task, without me being logged in. The network path, requires a username and password. NET USE I believe has to be in the context of the locally…
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btrfs - remove drive from raid array

I have 4 (3TB) drives used for backups inside my PC case I want to migrate to a NAS bay. I was wondering if the drives could be migrated over one at a time by disabling RAID. Here is the output from btrfs filesystem usage: Overall: Device size: …
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Synology Storage Manager rejects healthy disks as "Critical" because of "reset commands"?

I am trying to install a new HDD in my DS1515+. The hard drives are brand new Seagate Exos X. I have bought 3 of these drives, and 1 of them works fine and is now part of my storage pool, but the other 2 gives me an error when I install them in the…
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Slow File Transfer Macbook to Synology/Proxmox Server using AFP

Noticed slow transfer speeds of ~35 MB/s when sending a single 5 GB file from my Macbook Pro to my NAS running on Xpenology/Synology in a Proxmox VM. The NAS is first mounted onto the Macbook Pro using AFP over TCP , then the file is dragged and…
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User directory does not exist when logging in via ssh to a Synology NAS

On a Synology NAS with DSM 7.0 I have created through the Graphical UI a dedicated admin user (as recommended in Synology's setup procedure), then I have enabled ssh login and now I can ssh into the Synology. So far so good. However when logging in…
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How to properly setup Mullvad VPN with a Synology Diskstation

There's lots of howtos out there for this, and I've even (successfully!) followed them in the past to get my VPN setup on my Synology but for some reason, since I reset the box and wiped everything (currently running DSM 6.2.4-25556 Update 2) VPN…
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