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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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Uniquely identify DiskStation in email report

I'm administering multiple DiskStations, each of which sends out all its status reports to me. Unfortunately, in the default configuration all of these emails look the same and I often have a hard time figuring out which of my DiskStations actually…
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Using different MailServer for special Users in the same domain

I'm new to this topic, so please have forbearance, if this is a dumb question. At the Moment, we use GMail for all Mailaddresses. To save some money, the idea is, to use an own mailserver for the majority of the addresses, because they are only used…
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php open_basedir not working as expected on synology nas

I'm trying to install gitlist on my synology NAS (DSM 5.2). I downloaded and configured gitlist in config.ini and pointed it to my repositories folder (/var/services/homes/git/repo). But when I try to access the application I get this…
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Synology open for Cloud Station even if blocking 6690 port

I have a NAS Synology beyong my Internet Box. On the Internet Box, I have UPnP not activated and I have only activated on Port Transfer the following ports : 1701/UDP, 500/UDP and 4500/UDP which are usefull for my L2TP VPN. Even that, my Cloud…
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Mount NFS Share Windows Server 2012

I'm trying to mount an NFS share setup on my Synology Server to my Windows Server 2012 server. Here's what I've tried: net use Z: \[ip address][share folder] /user:xxxxx [password]' mount -user:xxx -p:MyPassword \[ip address][share folder]\…
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Shrinking LVM Volumes

We have a Synology RS3614rpxs NAS head containing (9) 3TB hard drives in a RAID 6 + 1 hot spare. The storage became exhausted and we added an expansion chassis where 5TB hard drivers were installed with the intention of creating a second array…
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How do I migrate data from an older Synology NAS to a newer one?

I have just purchased a DS213j. I have an older single single bay unit that I would like to migrate the data from. Because the previous unit is a one bay, there is no official migration path. Synology support just pointed me to the migration page,…
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Synology NAS: hdd hibernation and disk life

I've a Synology NAS with 2 WD Red hard drives. I've enabled the hibernation for the drives, so they stop after 20 minutes inactivity. However, we use the NAS a lot and the disks get powered up very frequently. I was wondering if hibernation could…
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Running RAID 6 with a smaller drive

It looks like one of my hard drives failed in our RAID 6 (4 x 2TB) configuration. Unfortunately, I only have immediate access to a 1TB drive. Would there be an issue with temporarily replacing the 2TB with a 1TB drive? At this time, we are consuming…
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Is it possible to choose the Amazon Glacier Vault when backing up from Synology NAS?

I am using Amazon Glacier Backup on a Synology NAS (rackstation). But the Synology backup software for glacier does not allow me to choose the vault to backup to. This means I can not give my own name to the vault, but also I can not backup to a…
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Only specify IPv6 suffix in DSM

I'm using a dual stack connection at home and have a DS213+. As my public IP (both v4 and v6) is dynamic, I'd like to only specify a suffix in my Diskstation's network configuration. My router supports DHCPv6, offers IA_PD and IA_NA. My ISP…
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WFS/NFS Shares lagging then crashing client machines

We're running a Windows domain (2008 R2 on 2 DC's) with a Synology Rackstation hooked up with all our shares on. We have about ~100 workstations and 30 phones hooked up to the domain (the phones have just been merged with our main network from…
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WHS (Windows Home Server) as an backup agent for Synology

In short, can I use a WHS as the backup agent to fetch data from our windows-based servers and perform backups to a Synology nas? We just purchased a Synology 8-bay nas as our onsite backup device. We have several legacy servers as well as some…
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Vmware Nas slow transfer rates/IOPS

I have built a test environment with a Synology RS812+ and an old HP140 server which has a gigabit nic installed. I have dedicated one nic to the network to DHCP and the direct to NAS from the server over ISCI. I am using esx 4.0 as the hypervisor,…
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Synology iSCSI Target - Install Ubuntu Server using PXE

Massive iSCSI/PXE noob here. I have a iSCSI target on my Synology NAS that I have attached in OSX using VirtualBox. I have the Ubuntu Server install ISO mounted on the Synology at /volume1000/IsoMount/ Can I install Ubuntu Server to the iSCSI…
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