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Hi I've used Hyper Backup to backup my entire NAS (DS 218J) to a USB drive using the Local (single version option) and it copied the full 2.5TB of data to the USB drive. However when I use the Local (multi-version option) with encryption I get a backup size of just 1.4TB - what's going on? I...

Hello all, I’m laying my plans out for moving from a ds1815+ to a ds1821+. My first question (and probably a dumb one) is, if I link two ports on each box to a managed 8-port switch will it speed up the transfer of data or is it still dependent on the router (the one cable from the switch to the...

Hi! I'm currently running a Hyper-Backup task that moves date from NAS A (DS216+) to NAS B (DS211j). Using rsync, this works perfectly well! Since NAS B is shutting down regularly (because of security reasons and serves for backup tasks only) I would swap the backup direction. NAS B should...

Hello All Newbie here. Just purchased my first NAS. My DS220+ is setup as Raid 1 with DSM 7. Having trouble maintaining the date of files and folders during migration. How do I copy all my files and folders from my current drive, while maintaining the date modified for all files and folders...

My good old DS214 was killed by lightning a few days ago. The powersurge travelled trough the ethernetcable, and killed most other wired equipment. The DS214 powers on, but the network interface is fried. Time to buy a new, similar model. So my question is: If I use the same disks from the 214...

What is the best approach to backup one share of a volume from my home NAS to an off-site NAS over the InterNet? The source NAS is a DS1821+ and the target one is a DS1817+ I would like the procedure to automatically synchronize the share from source to target, and keeping X generations or Y...

On June 29th, 2021, we finally got DSM 7 release! With that, Synology has also made a huge change to their C2 cloud platform that has been around for 4 years now. The fact that they are working on their 3rd world data center in Taiwan, shows that Synology is serious about data protection that...

I want to be able to deploy Docker containers on a seperate Ubuntu VM I have running on my DS718+ . But I want the persistent data mounted with -v to live on /volume1/docker of my NAS itself anyhow, so all this data is automatically included in my HyberBackup schedules. So if we take this...

Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me understand Synology's Security Advisor 'Login Analysis' section. For reference, I currently do not have my Synology login page available externally. I do have a reverse proxy set up for a several applications (i.e. Jellyfin, Bitwarden, Grocy, Firefly) but...

The Best Methods of Backup, Redundancy and Data Recovery on Synology NAS for Dummies Backup, backup, BACKUP! It’s something I am prone to say at the beginning and end of my videos whenever I talk about NAS Drives and integrating them into your home and business environment. Most people THINK...

Can You Trust and Rely on a NAS Drive for Your Data in 2021? These days one of the most important things that we all strive to keep safe and sound is our data. The world has shifted towards a heavily data-influenced society and whether you like it or not, your data is valuable, vital to you and...

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Hi all, Might be a stupid question I have 3.5TB data, but only 1 folder is really important for me. ata integrity protection is enabled only for this shared folder. that means that data scrubbing would run on that folder only? Or else it will run in the entire HDD but will be effective for...

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Every year March 31st is #WorldBackupDay. In case you are unaware, this is the day that you should backup your data if you haven't already (shame on you!). Of course, you should have regular backups of all your crucial content, but just in case, if you forgot, go and do it now. How do you...

TL;DR: "How do I mount/open a vdisk for a VM that doesn't boot?" I want to access files directly from inside the vdisk without it running the VM that was on it. I don't care if I have to access it from Synology NAS CLI or if I have to copy the vdisk image to my local machine to do so. More...

Hello, is there a way to transfer an HDD from one Synology which was used as Data HDD (no system on it) to an existing/running 3617xs and use it right away? Or is there just the way to copy - that would be insane to copy 10TB of data instead of just using it as it is... Thanks for all advices...

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Clicking through the Storage Manager this morning and noticed that the Data Scrubbing task has not been run for over a year (I know, I should pay more attention). I've triggered a manual scrub for now and the NAS is working through that task but I am still puzzled as to why the 'Last run' date...

Have been alerted [scared] by @jeyare about RAID 5 (SHR-1) potential for failure during rebuild due to unrecoverable read error (URE) when accessing disk sectors. The likelihood of this occurring increases the larger the RAID size. So given that in RAID 5 you have to reconstruct the missing data...