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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NAS rsync - delete files from destination which are not on source and are 1 week old

I have hyperbackup running from source NAS to destination NAS with the below settings Backup type - Rsync Options - reserve backup file at destination With this i have a backup method that results in a file/fodler structure in the 2nd NAS, withut…
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How do I backup my Synology NAS to an an expansion unit to carry offsite?

My intent is to use an expansion unit (DX517) to backup my DS920+ NAS, say every week, and then carry it offsite. I hope I bought the right equipment! I'm an absolute novice at this. All I've done so far is create a new storage pool on the expansion…
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Using NGINX to Access Synology services without port numbers?

First, I apologize if this isn't the right forum as this is somewhat of a networking question. To give a brief explanation of what I want to achieve is basically have the services or apps provided by Synology be accessible via a simple URL without…
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Cannot reach Synology NAS with Windows Explorer

I cannot access the office Synology NAS from one of the clients on the network, using Windows Explorer. When I click its icon in the Network section, I get an error: "Couldn't access \\SynologyNAS" "Error 0x80070035. Network path…
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Mount NFS error on Centos8

Mount shared folder via NFS into Synology but showing error. What did i missing here? [root@localhost ~]# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.20:/volume1/NetBackup mount: 192.168.1.20:/volume1/NetBackup: can't find in /etc/fstab. As per their site said…
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Synology - BTRFS volume crashed & recovered. Why did it crash?

This is a post mortem, I'm putting the info out there for people who may have this issue in the future. This happened on a Synology RS2818RP+ running Synology DSM 6.2-25556. The system contains a Xeon CPU and ECC memory. It has 8 x HUH721010ALE604…
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Restore AWS glacier data created with synology hyper backup

I'm using Synology Hyper backup to backup my NAS to AWS S3. To reduce cost I added a lifecycle to the S3 bucket, that moves the data to AWS glacier after a couple of days. Now I want to restore the data. Therefore I need to revert the step and bring…
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Recovering a file by mounting a Synology RAID1 disk in Ubuntu (mount, mdadm, and losetup issues)

I'm working with a Synology RAID1 system and deleted a file that wasn't yet backed up. To recover the file, and since an undelete approach seems to be impossible, my idea is to mount a single RAID1 disk in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and search for it, but I'm…
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Synology NAS Volume Crashed - SHR RAID

I have synalogy DS414j with 4 WD disk ( each of size 3726 GB ). I have 1 volume with Synology Hybrid RAID with capacity of 10.82 TB ( 10.67 TB Used) One of the disks (Disk 1) was not being detected hence I shut down the device and reinserted it. The…
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Synology Open VPN Server to Client connection

I have a 2 sites: Synology A (192.168.1.100) - running VPN Server (10.8.0.1) Synology B (192.168.2.100) - running VPN Client (connecting with 10.8.0.10) I'm trying to setup Hyper Backup from Synology A (source) to Synology B (destination). I was…
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Mount a HDD from a RAID to recover some data

I'm struggling to mount a HDD from a Synology DS214 RAID1 on my computer to backup some data from it. I can't mount directly because this HDD come from a raid mount /dev/sda1 /mnt mount: unknown filesystem type 'linux_raid_member' So i installed…
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Rsync : Preserve date after copying

I have an issue with files attributes since I changed my company's file system from an old ubuntu 12 to a Synology NAS. I initially mounted NFS shares on my old file system, then with cp I copied everything, everything was ok But i forgot to…
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How to make an 8TB protected SHR from a 4TB unprotected SHR (Synology Hybrid RAID)?

I have a 2-bay Synology Disk Station (DS220j) with a single 4TB Drive in it. There is a SHR Volume 1 on the system. It's currently without protection but it was prepared for another 4TB drive to be added. As time passed, 4TB is not sufficient…
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How can 2TB drive give protection for 12TB of data in a SHR (Synology Hybrid RAID)?

I used the Synology RAID calculator to model a scenario of a mix of a bunch of 1TB and 2TB drives. Could someone explain to me how is it possible that 2TBs of redundant space give protection for 12TBs of data?
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Connection to Synology VPN server not working

I own two Synology NAS (at different places). The first one is set up as an OpenVPN server. All my devices(android mobile, windows pc, mac) work fine when connected to the synology VPN server but when i try to connect my second Synology to Synology…