btrfs

One of my concern was about - What would happen when my RAID contains BTRFS will degrade? Analyze I found in official BTRFS Wiki these recommendations: RAID1 volumes - if they become degraded may only be mounted read-write once with the options -o degraded,rw. Notes: This does not happen...

I would like experienced opinions from those who have used block level deduplication to assess the benefit of running it offline on the DS3616 Having no native dedupe except the block level implemented in Business backup I figure those of us using our NAS for DAS/file serving kind of get...

I have a DS718+ with two 4tb drives with only one volume on each, using 1.5Tb out of the 3.6Tb available. Each drive formatted as EXT4. Was reading about the synology app active backup for business and downloaded it to see if it would work for me as easeustodo is not working well as a whole...

Two questions. Trying to help my friend set up his 218+. I've set up 1 NAS before: my 718+. So, still shooting in the dark some. 1) He formatted his 4TB red drive to btrfs. I've read some old search results that windows has trouble seeing this. Should we be able to see the map the NAS...

When I created the shared folder which holds my Docker image configs, I apparently missed enabling checksum protection (I'm not sure why this isn't a default for btrfs volumes... but nonetheless...). So here's my Rube Goldberg plan... Create a new shared folder with checksum protection...

I'll ask an old question: How to analyze storage ussage on Synology? The easy answer from someone not very experienced can be - use the Storage Analyzer. If you ever tried to used it on a system with btrfs and advanced data deduplication, you know that it in not really usefull. For example my...

Hi, I use C2 for daily off-site backups - which works great (including versioning and deduplication). As a second layer I have weekly Backups on an external USB HD as single-version (for quick access to the full amount of data if something breaks). There is a lot of redundant data, as I also...