Tag: Synology

  • Getting Ghostty to Work on Synology

    Ghostty is a terminal application that I don’t really need (it’s listed features either already exist in the MacOS terminal, or seem so esoteric or marginal that I can’t imagine any real benefit from them in my normal use), but I wanted to be one of the cool kids, so I thought I’d give it…

  • rsync between Synology NAS

    A while ago, I devised a complicated system where I could drop files in a web interface running on an LXD container and the files would then magically appear in a directory on a remote NAS in the morning. It turned out to not be very robust, and I gave up on it after a…

  • Proxmox LXC backup to NFS share failing

    I was doing updates on all my nodes and VM’s today, and backing up the VMs that aren’t already on a backup schedule. On my dev machine I have a Debian LXC container that I mostly just use for trying out Linux commands and playing around. I used to have a backup of it that…

  • Using NAS for Proxmox backups

    A few weeks ago, I was very excited to be able to take a snapshot of a virtual machine, copy it across the network from that Proxmox node, copy it back across the network to a different Proxmox node, start it there, and have it up and running, without it noticing it was actually on…

  • RAID Rescue

    I’m in the process of shuffling disks around as I move towards my 3-2-1 storage arrangements. I thought after my extensive rsync adventures I’d mirrored everything everywhere, but then realised, with a sinking (no pun) feeling, after I’d repurposed a drive out of the 2 drive Synology as a USB caddy drive and wiped it,…

  • rsync / Synology / @eaDir

    The reason I’ve been figuring out rsync is to setup my backup strategy. Eventually this will partly be managed with scheduled tasks (ie cron jobs) running rsync. I wanted the SSH in and try this out, since I didn’t know some basic things like the mount points of the shares. Mount points My first issue…

  • SSH with Keys to Synology

    The Synology operating system DSM (I’m on DSM 7.1.1) is Linux, but its highly customised for the purpose of making running a complicated Linux NAS doable for less technical users. Due to that, some things that are routine in a regular distro, require a few more steps to jump through to get them to work.…

  • Mounting one Synology NAS to another one

    I went over mounting a Synology NAS share on a Mac or Linux host a while ago. Now I’ve populated a new NAS, and I want to copy my data over to it. I could mount them both to my laptop, and the data flow would look like this: Since I’m copying 4TB, it will…

  • Accessing a Synology NAS from Linux

    I picked up a Synology DS216j NAS from eBay to use for storage for the rapidly growing home lab. The eventual plan is that as well as my VM backups, it will host the media library, and eventually (when this has all proved itself reasonably bullet-proof) my current DropBox contents. That won’t all fit on…