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I use Emby over Plex primarily for three reasons:

1) Plex has slowly been shifting towards ad-supported streaming content instead of self-hosted media. Emby is just your own content and nothing else.

2) Plex is trying to force all users to have a plex.tv account, whereas Emby supports local accounts. Additionally, Emby supports LDAP, so I can run the LDAP server on my NAS and use it to share credentials between the NAS and Emby for users.

3) I prefer Emby's interface for music (JellyFin doesn't have this UI yet).

A fancy (but not at all difficult) mod you might make to your cabinet:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QFWWZQO/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I did this for the built-in cabinet where I have my amp, TiVo, Roku, etc. Reversed one of the fans so that the air flow is circular. Works great and is very quiet. Plus the LCD panel looks badass.

Fun Fact: The spec sheet claims there's a max of 32GB of RAM supported, but that AMD chip supports 64GB. I used this RAM and it works just fine at 64GB, and at less than the price of 32GB of Synology branded RAM! (Extra RAM acts as a cache, so it's preferable to throw more RAM in instead of deal with the downsides of a flash cache.)

Maybe this is already known to others (this was my first time migrating from a smaller Synology to a larger one by swapping drives), but you cannot use a pcie network card for the initial setup - The card is disabled until you do the migration process.

I think this case could be shorter and have better airflow, but it gets the job done. Honestly, I'd be 100% happy with this thing, except for the GIANT RED DANGER WARNING that made me think I damaged a drive during the migration. Turns out I'm just guilty of using Exos enterprise drives.

It's not exactly what you asked for, but an alternative that doesn't require running mail server.

I use gmvault via a docker container. If you want to go a step further you can create a script to run in task scheduler which zip it up daily in a dated file. I can provide mine if you want.

Since OP posted twitter for some reason here's an actual link: https://www.amazon.com/Synology-Bay-NAS-DiskStation-Diskless/dp/B07CR8RZYY/

Pull drives and dban them separately in another PC.

Then reset the OS. That's it.

MikroTik is the leader in cheap 10gig switches.

MikroTik 9-Port Desktop Switch, 1 Gigabit Ethernet Port, 8 SFP+ 10Gbps Ports (CRS309-1G-8S+IN) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NFXN4SS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_eN8dDbMDDWY29

Edit: Down voted for stating a fact, nice.

Synology 5 Bay NAS DiskStation DS1019+
921 CAD ≈ 697 USD: https://www.amazon.ca/Synology-Bay-DiskStation-DS1019-Diskless/dp/B07NF9XDWG

WD 12TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive
320 CAD ≈ 252 USD: https://www.amazon.ca/Western-Digital-Desktop-External-Drive/dp/B07X3RBTQT

Total for the NAS and 4 x 12TB: 1705 USD

48TB of storage and a brand new unit that won't die on you tomorrow – and the same goes for the drives.

Admittedly, I don't know how taxes and Amazon.ca works, but even if you have to add 15% tax, well, I know what I'd have chosen.

Good hack. If you ever don't have velcro lying around, some adhesive foam pads also work nicely - e.g.:

https://www.amazon.com/SoftTouch-Self-Stick-Non-Slip-Surface-Grip/dp/B000SL0KJC

Just cut them to fit and stick them right on there. Also good for missing rubber feet on equipment too :)

I had a similar problem so I found how to configure the Socks5 on Deluge via the NordVPN guide: , hope this helps. After I followed the guide, it hasn't caused me a problem, so I suggest to check it out

I can recommend - it's running Transmission in Docker and works wonderfully. I use it with Private Internet Access but it should support different VPN providers.

Well, well, well. Until this comment thread I didn't know Synology made 1-drive NASes. $99 makes that much more attractive as an offsite device.

https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DS120j-DiskStation-Diskless-512MB/dp/B07ZKSLVT5/

Well, If you can wait a few months, you could use Let's encrypt which is backed by some major players (Mozilla, Cisco, EFF and more) and will be free for everyone.

Edit: Current launch schedule: General availability: Week of November 16, 2015. And their ~~root~~ signing certificates are cross-signed by IdenTrust, so they should work everywhere from the beginning.

I just recently got one and I have this installed with no issues:

Kingston 16GB DDR4 SDRAM Memory Module https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GKSKSDR/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_KY4004HCMESWJE5JT9WE?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I also have 4, 16TB, WD easy stores that I shucked, again no issues.

Female Barrel Connector Plug 5.5mm x 2.1mm for CCTV Cameras/Single Color LED Strips Pack of 10 pcs https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M0P34E8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_E47aGbZBN5BJE

Just splice the fan yellow to positive and the black to negative and you’re done. I used the extension lead included with the Noctua so I didn’t have to butcher the fan harness.

You’re putting the security of your home network on the faith that Synology has no buffer overruns or other vulnerabilities in their software.

Dude get on Cloudflare tunnels ASAP and shut down your open ports.

Also, you realize LE doesn’t require an open port. You can verify with DNS records. https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/

Error code correction is built into modern storage media (like HDD and SSD) which should keep you safe from bitrot. Really old drives may have error rates that exceed ECC, though, due to signal logs from magnetic entropy.

If you've got image corruption from what looks to be bitrot, especially with recently-taken photos, I'd suspect a truncation from your file transfer or backup software, a misbehaving router, or bad RAM on one of your devices. If you don't address that first, no fancy filesystem will save you from borked files.

(Source: me doing research for this article)

(you might want to fix the autocorrect typo in your title)

There are several apps that do this really well: Resilio Sync (for iOS and Android), SyncThing (for Android), and PhotoSync (for iOS and Android) will automatically back up your phone to your NAS at home.

You install the software on both your phone and your NAS, and then configure your phone to automatically back up to your NAS.

(Excerpt from <https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/#how-do-i-back-up-files-on-my-phone&gt;)

This RAM stick is not officially compatible but is a popular upgrade and works for many people, including myself. Stuck this in my Ds220+ last week and it worked perfectly. There was a mandatory 12 hour memory test the box had to run when I first plugged it in

It is LOUD. My phone reads 62dB at the unit. You can hear it from a hundred feet away, despite being in another room down the hallway.

I bought some Noctua NF-A8 PWM fans that I'll get around to installing this weekend (or when I can't take the noise anymore).

I’d vote UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) if he doesn’t already have one. It’ll allow him to safely shut down his NAS in case of a power interruption (outage, flicker, etc.) rather than an abrupt shutdown which poses a risk if his drives are writing anything.

I’ve used APC units like this one for $135 and this one for $165 and they’ve worked great.

From the Amazon page it came out last September. BUT, there wasn’t a 917+ that I could find, only a 916+ (where the last two digits are the “model year” like in cars). If this only comes yet every two years, it’s for sure good to buy now.

You can get two 8TB wd external drives & shuck them for $420 canadian

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01LQQHLGC/ref=twister_B07BNZ9YCB?_encoding=UTF8&amp;th=1

I don't know of a way without a computer. Assuming you want a full backup and not just files, take a look at https://imazing.com/ I use and legitimately recommend it.

You can set the backup directory to something on your nas. This works particularly well if you're a PC user and avoiding installing iTunes.

As a rule of thumb, no device should be directly connected to the internet unless it has been specifically developed for that purpose.

Set up a VPN gateway and let users connect to the gateway, which then gives them access to the internal network (including the NAS). There are plenty of appliances available for running a VPN gateway (from cheap consumer-grade Chinese TP-Links to enterprise devices from Cisco). One of the most popular choices for home and small business environments is pfSense, which is free and can run on a wide range of PCs. A sub-$50 small form-factor PC from eBay is good enough to run it.

That isn’t a network port. Notice it says USB&serial above it. It just happens to be an RJ45 on that side, but is USB/serial on the other.

Example: https://www.amazon.com/APC-AP9827-USB-cable/dp/B0002WYJSU

These have 16 TB Exos inside and regularly go on sale for <$300, though you do get a much shorter warranty.

I upgraded my DS1019+ to them when they were on sale in the runup to xmas this year, definitely worth it.

Since you have a degraded pool, you might want to buy one at full price to replace your failing drive, then upgrade your remaining drives when they go on sale.

I use Folder Sync (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.lite&amp;hl=en_US), and set it on a schedule. It has the nice advantage that you can sync any folder and not just photos. I don't know if it will set up that structure you're asking for, but it appears to have a "copy files to time-stamped folder" option when specifying a sync-pair.

The VPN package is just for creating a VPN server on your synology, which you can use to VPN into your LAN at home (or wherever the synology NAS is located).

To create a VPN tunnel for all of your traffic to somewhere other than the next hop of your ISP, you need a VPN server on the other end, and a router that will act as a VPN client. This can be done by subscribing to a VPN service, and configuring a capable router to tunnel all traffic to your VPN service.

However, encryption overhead and VPN service speed caps will limit your throughput considerably. I tried this with my 85Mb/s service and it dropped considerably (to 25-30Mb/s) when I tunneled all traffic to Private Internet Access' vpn server.

The Synology isn't going to work like that.

Newsgroup service needed that stores all the usenet data. and . Each has a retention (how long an item is available). Each also has plans that allows a certain amount of connections. For example, I use and use 30 connections which is enough to saturate my 300mbps connection.

Now you have an indexer such as dognzbd, , nzbgeek, etc... Some indexers are free and some are not. When you sign up, you get an API key. This API key is what you enter into your software as a method of authentication.

Then you have the software. You need a downloader such as nzbgeek or sabnzbd. I use sabnzbd as it gets updated far more often on synology than nzbget. Then you have the searcher tools (radarr or couchpotato for movies) and (sonarr or sickrage for tv shows).

Within these searcher tools, you have to configure your indexer APIs so software such as radarr, couchpotato, sonarr, sickrage can go to your indexer and search for a movie or tv show. Once it finds one that meets your criteria defined in the tools, it will send the nzb file to sabnzbd to download. Radarr and Sonarr watch the status and automatically move the completed download to a folder and can rename accordingly. Couchpotato doesn't work this way and required me to configure sabnzbd to move the downloaded file to a couchpotato folder and then couchpotato scans that folder and then couchpotato renames/moves. Not sure about sickrage.

All these downloads sabnzbd or nzbget is doing downloading off your usenet backbone server (usenetserver/newshosting). Therefore, sabnzbd or nzbget is really the only software that is configured to point to usenetserver/newshosting.

This should be enough to get you started on additional research.

It ain't 980, but 920-940 is pretty solid: https://www.speedtest.net/result/9781261405

Alternatively...

I just ran OpenSpeedTest on two separate devices on my network:

Device A: (OST's 'Seattle' Server): 930mbps / 120mbps
Device B: (OST's 'Albany' Server): 950mbps / 800mbps

There can be quite a bit of variance on these tests to external servers due to a number of different factors relating to your ISP or the servers used for the speed test.

Are you using the Synology Package Center version of Plex, or the Plex version from https://plex.tv ? If the former, you just update it from the package center. If the latter, then you download the spk file from the plex website, then open the Synology Package Center in your webbrowser, and click Manual Installation at the top right of the Package Center, and upload the SPK file to your synology NAS.

The Plex version supplied by Synology in the Package Center is older than the version available at the Plex.tv website, so if you want to be able to use the current officially released Plex server version, you have to manually install/update Plex as described above.

Hey!

I spent a long time finding a good solution to this problem. Tried probably everything people are going to suggest. Unfortunately VPNs can be tricky to set up (and a lot of external networks block them) and carrier grade NAT can make this tough. However I've found a solution which for the past couple years has worked perfectly: zerotier. This creates a virtual network for you without any of the hassle.

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1. Create an account at https://www.zerotier.com/
2. Install the DSM package on your NAS and log into the network (you will have to login to the portal to allow your NAS access to the network)
3. Install zerotier on your computer or cell phone and connect. As far as those devices are concerned they are on the same local network.

This works well for file sharing, remote access or even just a bit of good old fashioned LAN gaming. Let me know how you get on.

https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net/

"dupeGuru is good with pictures. It has a special Picture mode that can scan pictures fuzzily, allowing you to find pictures that are similar, but not exactly the same."

It needs to be run from another host and I'd recommend to have a fast connection to the NAS.

Synology has a couple (!!) photo apps that they provide. They both have different features: I'd kick the tires with a small test library first to see what they offer. Both are being discontinued with a single replacement photo app in DSM 7 (which is still in beta: don't try it yet unless you have a full system backup).

There are many other photo management options that will run in Docker, if that's not intimidating, including PhotoStructure (I'm the author).

I'm not sure the math works out to use B2 over Synology's C2.

B2 pricing

• backup: $5/TB/mo
• restore: $10/TB (first 1GB/day is free)
  
• file versioning: $5/TB/mo (if you want unlimited)

C2 pricing

• backup: $6/TB/mo
• restore: free
• file versioning: free (unlimited ... I think?)

> B2 has to use CloudSync instead of HyperBackup?

If you do not want to use Hyper Backup, I'd recommend that you use a 3rd party backup software, instead of a sync software (whether Synology's or other).

The reason is that there are benefits to backup software that sync software generally doesn't have (at least not all of them):

• Client-side encryption (so a hacker can't interpret your B2 data, even if they get access)
• Versioning (so you can get back that file you accidentally deleted 6 months ago or recover from a ransomware attack, even after your sync pushed the ransomware-encrypted files already to B2)
• Deduplicaton (so your versions do NOT occupy more space than necessary, that is unchanged files in a version will not take up space other than backup metadata management)

I'm actually making the switch away from Hyper Backup and I'm using Duplicacy-Web in a docker container right now. While the UI may feel a bit rough around the edges at times, it's been rock solid, much faster than HB and I prefer the configuration of their retention times over HB. It's a cross-platform tool written in Go, the CLI version is open-source and free for personal use, while the Web version is available for a modest subscription fee. So far I'm very happy with it and can recommend it.

Depending on type of site and expected traffic, why take the risk of exposing your NAS to the internet when free options like Netlify exists ?

You mentioned it was a play model, meaning anything docker or virtual machine is out of the question. You’d be 100% reliant on Synology patching a critical vulnerability in time, or risk exposing the entire contents of your NAS to a would be attacker.

Internet security is no joke, and it takes a long time to master. Tools like metasploit makes it easy to exploit vulnerable sites hours after a vulnerability is published. Simply enter the target IP address and you’re pretty much inside the system.

As for the “why would they target me” argument, when my IPS was scanning my was connection, it catched around 4500 different automated scans every day, scanning for vulnerabilities in webservers, sql server, MySQL, and various others. Truth is you’re already a target, but because you don’t have the ports open you don’t know it yet.

Finally, there’s the matter of CGNAT. Many residential ISP providers are using CGNAT to avoid upgrading to IPv6. That also means you won’t be able to expose ports. It may or may not be a problem. My ISP uses it, but disabling it is just a phone call away.

If you decide to go ahead with it, make sure you use GeoIP blocking to allow only access from the countries you expect traffic from, and know that exposing a service to the internet means you need to check logs every day for malicious things. Also enable synology account locking and various other. Synology security center should be green all over.

You know what's even more like VLC on Android? VLC on Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc

Totally free, no ads.

MX Player is a bunch of adware garbage that no one should be using.

Except when it was $37 cheaper a few months ago.

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1) Remove the cover like you're replacing RAM in the open slot.
2) remove the back panel that holds the fans (you don't need to unplug the fans, just lay the panel down out of the way).
3) Unscrew the screws that hold the MOBO to the case (again, no need to actually disconnect any of the wires).
4) Lift the bottom of the mobo up and out flipping it over. You'll see the other RAM slot there. It ships with a 2GB from Syno. This is why you're limited to 6GB (a 8GB stick won't play well with that 2GB).
5) Replace the stock RAM, and the empty slot with 8GB sticks.

That's it. Just make sure to use the right RAM. Users have reported issues using the wrong type. Here's what I used, and I can confirm it works (I posted pics of it working in another post): RAM

RAM isn't that important, but if you want to transcode via Plex, that isn't going to happen on a Synology device for the most part. Synology devices have fairly weak CPUs. You generally want a passmark score of 2000 per 1080p transcode, and the CPU in your Synology device doesn't even get 2000: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+N3160+%40+1.60GHz

I wanted to clarify some points here....

Glacier can totally function as a backup, where backup is defined as another copy of your stuff somewhere else.

As far as RTO times you can pick. The faster you want your data available the more you pay. All relevant information available here:

https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/#Data-retrievals

I'm going to get a 416play tomorrow and look forward to backing it up to Glacier and/or S3ia.

I had Plex installed natively through package center (but downloaded from plex.tv) initially, but after seeing all these requirements and changes, I moved to a docker install a couple of weeks ago.

From my understanding from your post, you were on DSM6 with plex, upgraded to DSM7, backed up your files, did a factory reset on your Synology, and now trying to get your Plex back to where it was? Do you have anything related to Plex on your backup? In DSM6, the plex data folder is usually located in /volumeX/Plex/Library. It should still remain the same unless you tried to migrate to the DSM7 Plex version. If you did that before factory resetting your Synology and did not back it up manually from /var/packages/PlexMediaServer, then you might have to start your Plex Server from scratch

> So how much would an S3 plan cost for say, 10 TB?

According to their price sheet, storage would cost about $125 per month for the Infrequent Access tier. Glacier would be about $70. When I ran the numbers, Glacier restores were much more expensive than S3, so take that into account.

If you're looking for pure disaster recovery and can put up with the janky Synology client, Glacier is cheaper for the "backup everything and pray we never need it" scenario. S3 costs a bit more monthly but there's less sticker shock.

> Can you do selective / scheduled backups?

To a point. I have two backup schedules:

• Weekly uploads of Time Machine. I don't do them more frequently because TM tends to update the same files many days in a row, so daily backups would often be re-uploading the same file (with slightly altered contents) every morning. If my house burns down, I can roll back my laptop to whatever I had a few days ago. This takes a few hours every Tuesday.
• Daily uploads of everything else, minus stuff like movies I've ripped from DVD that I can recreate if I need to. This takes maybe 20 minutes a night. If the house burns, I can restore all my family photos, scanned documents, etc. but I'll have to re-rip my CD/DVD collection. I can live with that.

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx

Great little utility thats been around for ages. Freeware that enables you to run UNIX commands for the not-so- Unix inclined.

Its good to run most of the scripts and cleaning utilities before major OS updates. Hopefully this will help you reset any inconsistencies you have in your system. Be aware there are different rev.'s for each OS build at the bottom of the link there. Good luck.

Another suggestion I have is to try http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/50723/smbconf This will switch your SMB3 to 1or2

FWIW, I eventually had to move from Hyper Backup to rclone when backing up to Google Drive (G Suite).

I don't know why, but after I passed maybe 15TB or so, backups started to fail with some level of frequency. After I broke 20TB, backups stopped working altogether to Google. Switched to rclone and never had any issues again.

So is there any way to like... emulate the amazon cloud drive android app on the synology?

It's not elegant, but I'm thinking, install something like this:

https://www.android-x86.org/

On a VM on the NAS, and then using Amazon's official clouddrive app

I write software that imports Google Takeout sidecars and album metadata, and after having several hundred users send me their problematic files, I've found that it's a total crapshoot for whether the file's metadata is completely intact, partially deleted, or even changed to be incorrect when it comes back in your Takeout archive.

I ended up having to make a crazy long set of heuristics to get the &quot;best&quot; captured-at time, and it seems to work well.

My point is: don't run a simple ExifTool script on your original files without first having a (couple!) backups.

I've personally messed up a bunch of my original photos because I used an app or tool that rewrote or wiped metadata sections (either by design or due to buggy encoders), so I decided to only use sidecars by default (you can change it though) just out of an abundance of caution.

"Bad sectors" isn't a case of "the drive may fail." The drive is actively failing.

The drive ships with spare sectors it doles out as it finds defective media. When those run out, you get those errors. Backup what you can, while you can. You currently have justification to buy new drives.

Read this section if the budgetary committee needs more convincing, and the two drives were bought together: https://photostructure.com/faq/raid-is-not-a-backup/#4-data-loss-from-correlated-failures

What problems did you have using Jellyfin in Docker? Docker is what they recommend: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/install/synology.html

I don't see a Synology package listed on Jellyfin's site. This illustrates one of the problems with SynoCommunity: unofficial packages where you don't know who has maintained them, how they're tested, and how often it will be updated

Nothing I know of. During hurricane season, I've used vlc with the links provided by synology to see all my cameras. Go to SS, and get the link and set it for the desired duration (or forever) then type that into vlc. Worked great for me.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I've got a pretty big music library and just use VLC to play it all - it doesn't matter if it's located on a NAS or a local hard drive. I used CDex for ripping CDs into MP3 files, but there are a lot of programs that will do this.

Yeah, you're right, I should have linked to the main page instead of the download page. Here's a better link https://www.zerotier.com/

In short, ZeroTier is an open source, and free to use encrypted virtual network (it's a feature superset of a VPN). It'll let you join all of your computers, phones, tablets, (and now Synology NASs) on a common network available anywhere in the world with a single static IP for each device

We do have enterprise offerings but we give this personal stuff away for free.

I followed this guide:

https://couchpota.to/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&amp;t=1477

But with sonarr, I couldn't change the user as in the guide, so I went and used the 'nzbdrone' for all the other tools like nzbget and couchpotato as well. But then, every program had read and write access to the paths and it worked like a charm.

I haven't actually used a synology, but if you can map a drive to it from Windows, then you can use "standard" file copy tools. This will help with the restarting.

I have used this with excellent results. It can skip files that it has already copied, and if it runs into a bad sector on the drive, it will retry a configurable amount of times.

I recommend doing several passes. The first time, set it to a low time out and 0 retries. This will copy over as much healthy data as possible. This way, if the drive dies, at least you have something. Then for the second pass, set it to skip existing files, and then increase retries to 3. This should get a bunch more files. Then do a third pass with a much longer time out and a a few more retries.

I also recommend unplugging your drive for a few hours after each pass. It will get very hot, and I found this to make it more prone to disconnect or time out. Letting it cool down seemed to help. You might also try /u/GldRush98's fridge/freezer suggestion. I haven't done that before, but I have know many people swear by it...

One thing you may want to do, after you do the initial pass to copy the easy data, let Windows run a disk check and try to repair the drive. Depending on why it is actually crashing, this could reduce the frequency of that. Instructions here. This will take a long time (possibly a few days) depending on the health of the drive and the size. Then resume the copy jobs to retrieve the rest of the data.

Another option that a lot of people on this forum swear by is duplicacy. You should be able to point it to any endpoint (external drive, B2 etc) and get a backup done with almost all the features you mention. Look up posts by /u/ssps in this subreddit. Has the advantage of being open format, so you’re not dependent on Synology software at multiple levels.

“No use for redundancy” is an interesting philosophy for a central repository that you are directly working on :) Essentially if the one disk fails, you are purely reliant on the last backup! Even a RAID1/SHR1 would allow you to lose a single drive and not have a disruption to active work.

Synology’s use of Btrfs gives you filesystem snapshots as well (which is not the same as a backup, think more like Time Machine.. ability to go back to a previous point in time). You should look into that and use a combination of these features to protect yourself from different sources/types of failure.

My recommendation is duplicacy. https://duplicacy.com

No extra space is taken. Backups are incremental and differential. If you backup 1TB of unchanged data 100000 times it will take 1TB (+ couple of kb for accounting). Likely however much less because most backup tools also support compression.

I actually do exactly that, I have a wireguard VPN to get inside my network and access all my local servers and NAS data.

I take encrypted offsite backups from my desktops using Duplicati to an unlimited-space Google drive with a GSuite for Business account. On the NAS, I just sync everything to the encrypted GDrive with rclone.

https://www.duplicati.com/

https://rclone.org/

UPDATE: For those who may be facing the same issue.

I had to enable SSH via Synology
Login as the Admin
and I launched the intilation scripts shown in Elasticsearch's documentation (v7.2)
I then had to run the following

su docker pull docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.2.0

su docker run -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -e "discovery.type=single-node" docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.2.0

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once that finished it was all up and running with no issues.

There are Document Management Systems out there like Mayam EDMS^1

However, if you're starting a small business, I'd follow /u/Shrimptot's advice of getting a good folder structure and don't worry about this now. There are so many other things to focus on.

That is, unless your business has anything to do with documents.

Something like

- Client - Contract - Invoices - 2021-07 - Project X - 2021-08 - Project Y or - Project X - 2021-07 - 2021-08

Would suffice for most. For your documents, just add things like Incorporation, Insurance, Contract

Prefix everything with YYYY-MM-DD so it's easier to sort and find.

You can check /r/datacurator, for ideas, but IMO, don't follow it too strict or you'll end up in another deep hole.

The VPN server on your NAS is there so that you may safely remotely access your NAS. It runs on your NAS.

Mullvad VPN is there to obfuscate your external network traffic from the entire internet. It runs on Mullvad servers.

Not quite.

Normally when you request some information from a server on the internet, you connect to that server and tell them to send the information to you. Both you and them can see where the data is going.

A VPN is an 'encrypted pipe' between you and a VPN provider.
So if you use Express VPN, NordVPN etc - they create servers and the client you run creates a secure connection to them. They then act as a proxy and send your request to wherever you want it to go, and then relay back the response.

e.g. "I google for something" - that request is sent to NordVPN, and then NordVPN passes the request to google. Google sends the answer back to NordVPN, who then relay it to me. Google just sees a request from NordVPN that they sent a response to - they don't know it got relayed back to me (and NordVPN promise they don't keep records that they relayed it to me)

But you can just build all of this yourself. I run an OpenVPN server on my router and then I use an OpenVPN client on my phone to connect. When I try to google on my phone, it sends the request to my router, which then sends it to google, and the response follows the path back. It's not giving me privacy (as all requests appear to come from my home router). What it's giving me is access to everything my router is connected to - If I send it a google search, it'll use the internet to connect to google - but I can also send it a request to connect to my NAS connected to it that the internet can't see.

I'm not explaining this well..
Imagine running a VPN on your router and connecting to it from your phone, like being able to run an ethernet cable across the internet and plug your phone into the back of the router.

My experience is that I have a lot of trouble maintaining high download speeds (>5MB) with OpenVPN on DS916+/DS1621+ in scenarios with a lot of connections (for instance downloading actual linux distros via Download Station or a docker p2p client).

- In UDP I get severe issues after a few seconds or minutes of running to the full broadband speed (20-30MB/s), where the logs show a lot of packet drops and the speed goes down to around 1MB/s.

- In TCP, I can't get over 4 or 5MB/s.

I tried with 3 different VPN providers (ExpressVPN, Mullvad and Vypr), so I don't suspect the VPN provider to be throttling. Tried via various OpenVPN docker images from dockerhub, or on DSM directly, wasn't working. Tried from a different machine (a powerful desktop computer) and it seemed to work fine.

So I came to suspect that the single-threaded performance (OpenVPN is a single-threaded load) of some Synology devices (Plus-Series desktop, DS916+ and DS1621+) is a limiting factor for OpenVPN. It would be nice to be able to try Wireguard, just to confirm.

I don't use ProtonVPN, but based on how it worked for me with another VPN provider, I’d say you should ask Proton and they should tell you what is needed (to be downloaded from their website) and where to find it. Most likely you'll need an OpenVPN configuration file and a certificate file.

I use one of these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01J5RHBQ4

and use it for Threat Prevention storage and also had two network shares on it for sharing media files before upgrading to a Synology NAS - but it worked fine for that usage with only a couple of users.

When activating NordVPN on your synology NAS, it changes the default gateway. As a result of this portforwarding is automatically disabled. You should have received a warning about this in your notification centre (if enabled). All traffic will be rerouted through your VPN, in disregard of any port specified. You can check this 3-way:

1. notification of portforwarding disablement
2. change of ip-address of default gateway
3. change of ip-addres in the remote access section of your Plex settings.

How to change it:

enable the multiple gateway option within the advanced setting under Network | General 

change the order of services under Network | Network Interface | Service Order. Make sure you Bond 1 (in most cases) is on top. 

This will re-enable portforwarding (check notifications) 

Bond 1 will be listed again as standard gateway under Network | General 

All your previous portforwards should work. Remember that all portforwards will not be protected by VPN. All others are, including Download Station.

In Plex settings | Remote Acces your familiar IP-address should be displayed again.

The reason your Synology will not boot up is because of the wrong memory specs. The DS718+ uses DDR3L type ram not DDR4.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KSLPNN0/ref=ppx\_yo\_dt\_b\_search\_asin\_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

Some NordVPN endpoints are faster than others. I find that if I have a poor connection that simply disconnecting and reconnecting tends to resolve it.

In my experience, connections also tend to slow down if they've been active for a long time, particularly at peak hours. Maybe related to however they do load balancing?

I bought this HDD dock from Startech. It has eSATA but would not be recognized by my DS718+.

My NUC (Ubuntu server) picked it up without a problem.

I would get a hard drive like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NPMMZ8C?psc=1, use USB Copy to copy the data, and store it offsite in a safe deposit box if tou have one. I've been doing that for years with no issues.

If you haven't already, add some felt to the drive sleds.

I used a long, thin piece of this on both sides of each sled and it took care of all the drive/vibration noise.

From Amazon....here's the link...loaded it up and been running now for 48+ hours...super quick and no errors.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083QNHX96/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_QMZH78190J9P37SF29WG?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1

Go with the BE650G1 instead. It's $15 more but has a larger and easy to find battery when it's time to replace it.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GZRUZW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

You have to be careful with the newer APC's as some look just like the one you have but you can't change out the battery very easily and the usb port does not function. They are designed to be thrown away. I think the one you picked is ok but the BE650G1 is a better choice.

There are a ton that should work perfectly fine, but here's the one I got:

CyberPower CP850PFCLCD

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I've got my nas, cable modem and router plugged into it. Works great. I also like it because it's not too big.

The RAM module linked by comment above is a Dual Ranked memory module. It will work.

Unfortunately, the memory module you choose is Single Ranked, and this is why it doesn't work. Sucks, but perhaps you didn't know there existed such a difference. Synology are known to only work with Dual Ranked memory modules.

https://www.amazon.com/ADATA-Technology-ad4s266638g19-DDR4-2666-SO-DIMM/dp/B07B5Y6TSB

I just bought another UPS this week. This one was well reviewed on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FWAZEIU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

I've never had an issue with any UPS from APC before. The others I've purchased before have run around $105, so this is quite a bit less. I think this one may have one less port overall possibly, but something that is underrated is the nice spacing around the middle plugins for your bigger power adaptors as well as horizontal alignment so the longer adaptors don't block other plugs.

That a code roll is being worked on for a future DSM is something that is in the works. The uncertainty is more that we haven't been told exactly for sure when that will be finalized. If we get more information, we will be sure to pass it along to the community.

As far as the newer 10TB model, here's Amazon links:

non-Pro ST10000VN0008

Pro ST10000NE0008

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You want to create the VPN on your internal network, most likely on the NAS itself. You then connect your devices over the internet to it. If you connect your NAS to NordVPN you still won't be able to access it.

I have ExpressVPN on my synology mainly because ExpressVPNs website gives you a step by step on exactly how to set it up for idiots like myself. Pretty easy to do and no complaints from me.

I think the top two recommended are Nord VPN and Express VPN

Does port forwarding work with a VPN?

Port forwarding and triggering could work with a VPN protocol in general, but not with NordVPN. Our apps block almost all port communication from within your device except for the ones most commonly used by popular applications. This was a tough decision that may inconvenience some users, but we’d like to explain why we did this.

Yes. It does involve some setup, but it’s possible via Open VPN. I use Private Internet Access, and here’s a discussion on how to set it up:

I’m sure other providers have similar procedures to go through.

I understand where you're coming from, I was in your position about a year ago. My recommendation for a VPN is Private Internet Access if you want to go that route. I have been using them for a while and they're excellent. Always fast.

Another option is using a Seebox, if you're curious about them take a look at /r/Seedboxes.

it sounds to me that your VPN is not se tup correctly or that something is interfering with it, most likely the DNS is not resolving. Idk much about this VPN, I've used a pretty simple NordVPN tutorial () when I still had my NAS. Maybe it will help/clear smth if not, just try their customer support

I am using PIA and the standard setup means that I have no issue accessing Lan based devices such as my printer and Synology Diskstation without problems. I am sure that NordVPN allows something similar.

The black plastic panel on your model doesn't have any real function beyond cosmetics, so don't worry about dust or temperature. Some older/smaller models have a closed front panel, and on those it might be a little more important to keep the case closed if you care about temps and dust.

Hard drives (usually) have a maximum operating temperature of 60 degrees (it's written on the drive itself), and at least on my own Syno boxes here at home I don't even see a single degree difference in temperature if I remove the front panel. In regards of dust, it doesn't matter as well; it doesn't affect air flow or dynamics enough to prevent dust entering the device. Might prevent the largest dust bunnies, though... :)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/C2G-Metre-Power-IEC320C13-Kettle-Black/dp/B002CZQ3G6/

It's just the same as you'd plug into a desktop PC, a kettle (although those are typically heat resistant, no need for that here).

Do switch it out as you guys in the UK have a need for fuses in the power plugs, that EU cables don't have.

It appears that the Celeron J3455 in the DS918+ is slightly faster and 66% more power hungry than the Pentium N3710 in the DS916+.

If this is correct it's better to buy the DS916+ with its much more power efficient pentium. You don't want a power guzzler of a NAS, especially when it's built to be on 24/7.

66 % more usage of power seems like a very high number to me though.

a workaround, is to sign into your machine with a local account (so you get a proper username), then link that account to your MS one.

Or.. as a quick google found:

http://superuser.com/questions/490960/does-the-microsoft-account-get-a-local-username

So jump to a command window..type: net users

this should list your 'local' username...

as long as your synology username/password matches up, you should get 'passthrough' auth, as Windows will try that first, against the Synology

You set your Pi-Hole as your local DNS server on your router, so any DNS request goes through Pi-Hole. Pi-Hole looks at each request, checks if the entry is in its naughty database, and either blocks or resolves the address for you. This is only done once per connection (~), so as soon as the address is resolved Pi-Hole is no longer accessed - no slow down on anything.

Dodgy sites and advertisers are blocked. Many web pages will load a LOT faster as the megabytes of junk advertising are ignored.

My cameras are desperately trying to connect with gm.iotcplatform.com and cm.kalay.net.cn which I manually put on the naughty list. You can check what your device is trying to connect to, Pi-Hole happily keeps a log, which you can review and block anything which troubles you. This is more organisation level spying than individual hackers who might scan what ports are open on your router. If you do not want external access (access from outside your local network) to your baby monitor then make sure your router has UPnP disabled which means any service, like your Synology, you will have to manually configure port forwarding on your router for the external world to gain access.

Services I'm familiar with:

• Amazon S3 - https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html based on the Asia Pacific data center, 500 GB is about $12.50 USD per month. S3 has costs for transferring data out, use the calculator to estimate. Actual pricing is here: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ You didn't mention it, but if you use Amazon Glacier it's much less expensive to store, much more expensive to restore.

• Dropbox - They offer 1TB for $100 USD / year. It's not technically a backup provider, but you can store your encrypted / compressed backups there pretty easily. If you go this route create an account just for backups and don't log in to that account from any desktop apps or untrusted locations.

• NAS - Works okay. Obvious upfront cost + reduced protection

• Other - Backblaze B2 - cheap storage, not as full-featured API so it doesn't work with Hyper Backup but you can use it with Cloud Sync or with a third party tool. Works OK.

The easiest, and probably cheapest way is to back up to Glacier.
In Package Center there is a package specifically for this - Glacier Backup.
You have to set up an AWS account first over at Amazon, then hook the Glacier Backup client to it (will need your key info from the AWS account).
Glacier pricing calc available here, but storage runs around $0.004 per GB / month.

If the device actually supports it, you can make your own custom .xml for it to show what it supports. My Nvidia Shield was transcoding when it shouldn't have and that is how I fixed it. This is my Android-SHIELD Android TV.xml for example, cobbled together from a few examples and sources online.

As for the dns, you would create an A-Record to your fixed ip of your router: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/dns-records/dns-a-record/. Router would then point to your reverse proxy. You might already have this set up properly.

As for configuring the subdomain in nginx, I’m not too familiar with that. But that appears to be one of the specific functions of nginx.

For my case, I do not use a reverse proxy because I’m only running wireguard and HA. HA connects to 443 and I port forward that to my Docker container running HA. Wireguard port is 51820, and I forward that to the machine providing wireguard. Since I know the services use specific ports, I did not need to use a reverse proxy. You may be trying to set up something different from my situation.

If it’s streaming via http and not via https (and isn’t wrapped in a VPN connection) then ….

Yes it’s streaming ‘in the clear’ and anyone along the line that can “sniff” the network traffic can see whatever is being sent. File names, frames, whatever other “meta” data was sent along the way…etc, etc, etc.

Long story short - wrap everything you do back to your synology in a VPN. Then probably also get your certificate game going and make it https not http.

If you need free certs …etc this might be a good place to start. https://letsencrypt.org

But I can’t stress the importance of running a vpn server on your own network for you to connect back to and then be able to use everything on the synology as if you are on your home network. Then you don’t have to expose anything other than the VPN to the Internet. Far more secure and private yet still having complete functionality.

So there are multiple date fields in the EXIF data and it's going to be important to specify which one you're interested in (Capture Date, Creation Date, Modified Date etc).

You should be able to use exiftool (open source, runs on windows, macOS and Linux) to pull data from one date field from the file and plug it in to the other one you're interested in.

I don't, however, have a suggestion to keep Synology from updating the date again (partly because I don't know exactly which date field you're talking about and partly because I'm not familiar with that thumbgen process - though I'm surprised that it would be affecting the original JPG. (are you sure it's writing to the JPG and not an xmp sidecar file?)

If you just want something inexpensive, with really good image quality...

http://www.dx.com/p/escam-qd520-1-4-cmos-720p-peashooter-waterproof-p2p-network-ip-camera-w-24-ir-led-ir-cut-white-329257#.Vg1K1Jc2xmM

I have a couple of these, and the image quality is ridiculous good for this price, tbh. They are a bit clunky in design - they are meant for outdoor use - but are well suited for indoor as well.

You're gonna need Internet Explorer with ActiveX to set it up though. Only downside, tbh. But after it's configured (dhcp), you never ever have to access it's control panel again.

If you have a PC (or mac) available, just install the Google Photos Backup tool and point it to the mapped network location on the Synology containing all your photos. That's what I do and I've had no problems up to now. It's not the best way of doing things but at least it works.

I use Docker for Sonarr and Radarr (and PiHole), and then I installed the Native Plex package from Synology because I need the hardware transcoding.

I use SabNZB for NZBs, and Download Station for Torrents.

I have my VPN provider configured in my Router, and all internet traffic from my NAS's IP is routed through the VPN.

I then run a custom script on my Router which polls for the IPs used by plex.tv and manually redirects that traffic around the VPN and out the usual gateway.

It's a bit complicated. I suppose I could just put Plex in a Docker, and get a torrent client in a Docker as well, and run the containers through the VPN. But like I said, I need my hardware transcoding. So my setup has no VPN considerations made on the NAS itself. It's all done at the router.

just fyi... but you may be better off using the Plex package from plex.tv. It is updated more frequently, and more fully featured that the Synology version.

If you choose to do that you must first uninstall your Synology Plex package (don't uninstall the data when asked). Then manually install the Plex package you downloaded, using Package Center manual install feature.