Questions tagged [synology]

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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Why won't CVS allow user login (on a Synology server)?

I'm trying to set up a CVS server on my synology NAS, but am getting a recurring error in actually accessing the cvs via login. I'm also posting this on the synology server, but thought that I'd post here as it's probably more of a CVS issue than a…
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Synology NAS performance as main disk for ESXi 5

I'm planning on buying a Synology NAS, one of the + models. I'm wondering what the performance would be like if I use it as the main disk for my ESXi 5 server. I mainly run Debian and run web and file servers. I want to make an iscsi and mount it…
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Run inotifywait in background

I tried literally ALL ways to get this script running in the background (as startup script, as daemon, etc.). The problem is that this script works in the terminal, but not in the background: #!/bin/sh while /usr/local/bin/inotifywait --format '%T…
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ipkg and apcupsd disappear after logging out of the session in which they are installed

I'm attempting to install apcupsd on 2 Synology NAS servers (RS3411 and RS3412) so that they shutdown when batterlife on the UPS (APC SmartUPS X 1500) reaches a set minimum. Here is what I do: - ssh into the NAS as root - install ipkg (sh…
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Recovering a mdadm+lvm+ext4 partition with read error

One of disks in my NAS has failed. The NAS is running Linux, and it uses mdadm + LVM technology for its filesystems. I do have backup for most of the contents, but not for the very last changes, and if possible, I'd like to recover that from this…
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sshd block access from some host names

I want to block access from some external host to my ssh deamon. Is there something in the sshd_config file I can set? Just if this matters: I'm on a Synology 1010+ with openssh installed from ipgk, if this matters.
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Rails 3 passenger nginx application spawner server error on Synology NAS

Question updated, please read UPD2. I'm trying to deploy app through passenger nginx module on DS710+ (ruby 1.9.2p0 installed). There is syntax error relative to has_and_belongs_to_many_association.rb file. Please look at the screenshot(deleted,…
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Trouble with NFS file sharing on Synology 211 NAS and Ubuntu Client

I'm attempting to set up NFS file sharing and keep getting the error mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 192.168.1.110:/myshared Here is the exact command I'm using to mount: sudo mount -o nolock 192.168.1.110:/myshared…
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How to use more than 10 block level iSCSI volumes on Synology DSM 2.3 for ESXi

We have a Synology NAS RS810RP+ running DSM 2.3-1161 and there are several block level iSCSI devices configured. Each of the devices is used as iSCSI harddrive for a different ESXi VM. (Every VM has one device and every device belongs to one VM,…
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RewriteEngine in VirtualHost doesn't work

I'm moving a site from a Synology server to another, and want automatic redirect. I have virtual host on the syno, the site is in domain sub.domain.com. The new site is in newdom.com/sub. This is the httpd-vhost.conf-user file: NameVirtualHost…
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Synology DS210j & online backup: what do people recommend?

I've just purchased a Synology DS210j for my home network and would like to backup this NAS online. I noticed that DiskStation Manager v2.3 provides various options including Amazon S3 and rsync: Does anybody have some real usage against cost…
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How to properly create a startup script for tracd on Synology DS209+II?

I'm running tracd on a Synology DS209+II NAS. For that purpose, I have created a script in /opt/etc/init.d called S81trac: myserver> ls -l /opt/etc/init.d -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 127 May 19 09:56 S80apache -rwxr-xr-x 1 root …
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Route all traffic from port over non default route

All my traffic goes through a subscription VPN service via a gateway. I now want to have a Site-to-Site OpenVPN connection between two synology NAS, with one sitting behind the VPN gateway, the other off-site. I made a simplified sketch of my…
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How to backup MSSQL to NAS storage with local credentials

I have Synology NAS with local credentials authentication. How can I create a backup from MSSQL to such share? My only option is to authenticate with username/password combo since the Synology UI does not allow adding anything else.
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Does a Synology DS36xx have any kind of battery-backed cache for the RAID controller?

I've used Dell Perc RAID controllers in the past. In those systems, the (hardware) RAID controller usually has an onboard battery backup system that stores the cache state in the event of a sudden power interruption. This is critical to prevent file…
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