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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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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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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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Recover Raid in Synology DSM 7

After a DSM update, an issue with Synology branded cache drives caused my pool to crash and become unavailable. The 3 dots on the bottom only had the option to remove the pool, no option to enable read/write or repair the volume. I reached out to…
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Logging into DSM7 NAS hangs after entering password

My network is based on Ubiquiti Unifi devices and has some printers and assorted clients, and a Synology NAS running DSM7. A few days ago the network suddenly developed problems. It's beginning to become a critical issue, but I'm stumped. Of note is…
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