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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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Can I setup Synology DSM to only one disk and then pull in data to setup RAID 1 afterwards?

Given situation: Synlogy with 2x1TB (disks not further needed) MyCloud with 2x3TB (Raid level 1) Goal: I want want to run the 3TB disks in the synology. When I switched disks Synology wants to install DSM and warns of losing any data. Question: Can…
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Synology DNS server stops responding queries after a while

I have a Synology RT1900ac router with DNS server. It has only one local master forward zone. Really simple one with a few entries, I just followed this guide. It was working fine until the latest router firmware and DNS Server package update. After…
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NAS RAID5 & Crash Scenarios

I need to validate my understanding on RAID. I'm planning to buy a Synology (or QNAP) NAS and plan to mount 4 HDD (4To each) in a RAID5 group. I’m considering several crash scenarios : one hard drive crash I can replace failed disk with a new…
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XPEnology - Filesystem

I've looked all over but I can't seem to find a straight answer. I have 4 NTFS drives with data on them - are these compatible with a fresh install of XPEnology? The aim is to obviously share the drives and allow read/write.
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How to configure synology NAS for SMTP server

first of all I have to admit that I'm a beginner in this topic. In fact this is my first post. I have a synology 213J that I want to configure as SMTP server. I discovered that I needed a domain in order to do that so I generate one using NO-IP.com…
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Can I mount a share to an EMC array?

I would like to mount an NFS share to an EMC array enlarging it's capacity until we can expand the EMC environment. I have a cheap Synology with 12TB of storage I would like to use to expand it for a short time. Is this possible?
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Synology NAS as iSCSI target for VMWare ESXi

The Synology NAS 810+ is 'certified as compatible with VMware vSphere 4' - but we are planning to go with a cheaper Synology rack NAs. What do we loose (except performance and size) if we want use one of Synology Rack NAS 407,409,409+,409RP+ as…
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What are the required networks (physical and virtual) for a 3-node VMM cluster?

I'm setting up a 3-Node Synology Virtual Machine Manager cluster and I am unclear on how to properly setup the dedicated cluster network vs other networks. I've read through all of Synology's guides and spent hours searching for blog posts or…
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Can a currupt backup cause a hardrive failure?

I have a script that runs each time Windows 7 starts up that backs up an MS SQL database to a Synology NAS loaded with 12 Seagate ST4000NM002A-2HZ101 hard drives. Everyday at 3am the backed up database is "restored" to a MS SQL database running in a…
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Rsync on synology error

I have created an SSH key shared between my Synology NAS and the Debian cloud server. I created this script to synchronize two folders, but it doesn't seem to work. Command: rsync -av --delete -e "ssh -i /home/root/.ssh/id_rsa -p 22"…
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Are SFP compatible with mini-GBIC

I am shopping around to get a Synology NAS. Particularly the Synology DS2015XS which has 2 SFP+ 10GB port. I currently own a Cisco SG200-26 with 2 mini-GBIC. I have no idea how SFP+ or mini-GBIC work, so can someone tell me if these two are…
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Recording IP cameras on dual Synology Diskstations

I have currently a very elegant setup for surveillance, where 6 AXIS IP cameras are being recorded on a Synology DiskStation DS1513+. I plan to install a further 2 IP cameras and what I need to do is this: Record all 8 cameras on the original…
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Clients / Groups / Users not shown in group policy management console (GPMC)

I have installed the ActiveDirectory app on my Synology DS918+. Already successfully added users and insert two PCs into the domain. If I open the GPMC on my Windows 10 (v1809) machine, I'm missing the "Clients", "Groups", and "Users" tab (I started…
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Permission denied mounting NFS volume on raspberry PI with Synology

on my diskstation: /volume1/Blockchain 192.168.1.27(rw,async,no_wdelay,insecure,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,sec=sys,anonuid=1025,anongid=100) /volume1/BigStore …
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Horde Groupware in Synology

Need information to install Horde on Synology. I heard there is a Horde package for Synology, Can someone help me find the link. I am new and tried in many ways to find it myself before asking. Thank you so much.
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