NAS or Network-Attached Storage is file-level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to clients. It mainly operates as a file server and is specialized for this by its hardware, software or a mix of those. Most NASes offer many accessing algorithms (like Samba, FTP, SSH and many more) and can host a website, stream multimedia and do many more tasks.
Questions tagged [nas]
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FreeNAS/ZFS with both RAID-Z and Mirror?
I'm considering switching to FreeNAS at the same time I'm acquiring some new disks for my home server. The end configuration will have a 1.5TB drive (currently the largest disk in the set) and two 3TB drives.
The "obvious" way to structure this (to…

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How can I use an AFT NAS drive to save my website with a cron script on Ubuntu?
There are the details of my problematic :
I manage a PHP website with a massive number of files (>100 000) on a Linux server (Ubuntu 20.04) that I wish to save daily.
I wish to create a shellscript (save.sh) that I could add and execute to the…

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Why does read.csv read NAs values into a file as character variables?
I need to count the NAs elements in a CSV file containing numeric values and NAs. Using read.csv, r automatically reads them all as character, therefore it's impossibile to detect how many NAs there are. How can i fix that?
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how to add admin priviledge with tkinter
I’m coding a database management app with python tkinter packages. This API is on a NAS (network attached storage). So the users can open it from a connection and make modifications in real time.
I want to give some privilege for admin users. That…

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Backup on NAS - The network is busy ERROR
We have a backup system in our company, those backups go to 3 different locations. For some reason one location called "Hades" has an error sometimes.
I would be happy if anybody knows what could be the problem
Error while backuping (name of the…

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Creating a "dedicated" LAN for a NAS
A bit of context, most of my users are asked to move to online/cloud storage, except a few (4 actually), who use bigger files and therefore will be allowed to keep using LAN storage.
The current setup is pretty slow and consume everyone's…

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rsync slash in dir name
I'm backing up 12TB of files from MacOS to linux (synology nas) where some of the directories contain slashes.
These directories are renamed to something like 4XQVKM~Von the nas.
Is there a way to avoid this with rsync?
If not, what's the best way…

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why not share a file on a SAN
Newbie to storage domain.
NAS >>> shared a file/folder from a drive.
SAN >>> format the drive(LUN) with NTFS. then share a file/folder(SMB) from that formatted drive.
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Is there any LUN concept for NAS ? If yes, is a LUN accessible by…

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NAS to serve images in a web app MVC
I have a Nas that I am storing images to in a web app, but now I need to retrieve them. I have the image tag showing :
The image does not show, but when I right click in…


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Flex programming
I am trying load images dynamically from my NAS but when I defined the source as
//myNASDriveName/myPath/myImage.jpg
the image could not be shown. If I changed the source as c:/myPath/myImage.jpg it worked. Below is the code. I have tried the…

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NAS ForceDirectories
I cannot seem to be able to call ForceDirectories() on a NAS partition on Windows 10 64-bit.
I can create a folder on the NAS using Windows Explorer just fine.
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Convert cmd ffmpeg script to shell
its very simple code for cmd but i cant get how its should work on my nas with shell
Please help to convert script:
@echo off
setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
Settings
set sWorkFolder=d:\workfolder
set…

uran M
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Connecting Windows to NAS - Samba server
I am trying to connect my Windows 7 to my NAS server (using Samba on Raspberry Pi, running with Arch Linux).
I've clicked on "Adding new network drive" -> \192.168.0.22\mnt\usb\Data
which is the path to my external drive partition.
There is an…

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Windows / Linux mapped drive: how to create a directory which name begins with an "@" at-sign?
Context: Synology NAS Linux accessed by Windows 7 using a
Problem: Windows refuses the creation of a directory which name begins with an "@" (at-sign / at sign).
Unfortunately, I have to create a directory named @eaDir (hi, Synology Photo Station…

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How to use WD My Book Live share as Raspberry PI owncloud server data directory?
I have installed owncloud based on MySQL on a raspberry pi. On my My Book Live NAS I created a new share called owncloud. On my PI I added the following line to /etc/fstab
//nas001.local/Owncloud /mnt/shares/nas001/owncloud cifs …

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