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.
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remote access to NAS and database
I have a postgreSql database running on NAS synology ds216j.
From my host I can access the NAS control panel (http://x.x.x.x:5000/)and I can see the database files but I cannot run them straight from there. (LibreOfficeBase)
If, instead, I access…
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Mount images with network volumes
I'm trying to mount a gitlab image in docker, I want it to have the repositories in a NAS, which I have in the local network, well, in case of disaster the information is not lost, I just have to reinstall the docker and run.
All this explained…
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QNAP Web UI - How to get the windows in a web app?
I am learning to write web apps. I am currently working on a project and recently purchased a QNAP Nas unit. The web UI for the admin settings is perfect for what I would like, but I don't know how to do the windows thing.
Basically you have a menu…
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How to upload file on Synology NAS?
I want to make a file and upload that on a Synology NAS. I am using Python. It doesn't support FTP but it is just a network drive.
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OSX Filer and Python os.rename() to NAS ignore case only changes
On my MacBook OSX Filer and Python os.rename ignore name changes that only involve case changes when working with files on a NAS. For python I've written a function for renaming files and folders to an intermediate name then renaming to the desired…
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Can’t get cron job working on ASUSTOR NAS model AS-302T
I’ve been struggling for weeks now trying to find any info on how to successfully setup a cron on my Asustor NAS, and would really appreciate any help.
Here is what I have done via my favourite SSH program putty. I added my cron in the following…
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ipkg/opkg how to install certain package by specified version?
When I was going to install some package on my NAS via ipkg I found there are more than one versions such as:
root@Nas:/opt/etc/init.d# ipkg list | grep openssl
openssl - 0.9.8v-2 - Openssl provides the ssl implementation in libraries libcrypto and…
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Amazon Glacier - is there any compression?
I'm using Glacier app on my QNAP NAS drive and was backing up some folder and I'm wondering if Glacier is using any file compression? Folder original size is 41.5GB and on the Glacier Management Console I see this container/vault have 36.5GB - is…
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What is Xpenology? Is it Linux related thing?
I'm a newbie about Xpenology. Is there anyone can help me answer some questions below:
What is Xpenology? Is it Linus-based OS? What is the main purpose of
it?
Can I install Git server in Xpenology? Could you please give me
the guide?
How does…
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Automounted volume is empty El Capitan
I'm trying to use OSX's automount utility (autofs) to prevent dismounts of a local Synology NAS using the steps in this tutorial 1. Although there are no errors, mount points and folders are created after executing automount -vc, the folders are…
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rsync: Performance issues with large files
rsync is much slower than expected in my use case:
I'm facing the problem of frequently copying multiple hundred huge media files (each way bigger than 100GB) from a Synology NAS to a local Thunderbolt RAID via LAN using a Mac. I've tried many…
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Rsync - files in destination much bigger than source
I'm trying to set up a backup routine that will copy files like-for-like.
I've set up Rsync in a Mac Automator routine to sync a windows formatted removable drive attached to my MacBook to a NAS drive on my wifi network.
I'm using 'rsync -va', the…
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Apache commons FileUtils cannot access NAS directory in linux
We have NAS dir mounted on linux box where out java application runs in application server. Now when I logged in to this linux box then i can clearly see that NAS dir mount "/data" has all permission RWX at all level but when my program runs then it…
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can we connect storage server to application server as an external hard disk
I am new to storage domain .can Some one please help me in understanding the below things
Can a storage sever be connected to Application server?
1.How storage servers are different from applications servers
2.Can multiple application servers…
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ActiveMQ HA option with Shared File System
We want HA of ActiveMQ. I explored the option of database and with Zookeeper. I wanted to check the option with Shared storage. In the documentation its mentioned about Storage Area Network. However I do not have access to SAN.
Can I use the…
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