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dsm7
Today, Synology has pushed out a release candidate version of their new DSM 7 OS. WARNING: this version is for EVALUATION ONLY! Do not install this version on your main production device! Before Installation Please read the following information before installing the release candidate 1. For evaluation only - DSM
dsm7
Any major upgrade or update can lead to problems as well as resolutions or even major feature additions to the platform or appliance running it. The same principle applies to Synology's DSM (Disk station manager) OS running on their NAS devices. In the anticipation of the new DSM
srm
UPDATE 25/05/2021 - v1.2.5-8225 have been recalled and replaced with v1.2.5-8227. This update has been recalled on May 25, 2021, due to an issue on time synchronization. The issue has been fixed in SRM 1.2.5-8227. UPDATE 12/05/2021 - update went
docker
Intro In the world of self-hosting and open-source, there are a lot of great solutions, and some of them might not have a strong user authentification protection, or don't have anything at all, let alone the 2FA option. For those apps and the fact that you could access
docker
UPDATE 11/05/2021 - added some details on the bottom regarding performance of the Unifi US-16-XG switch If you are looking to run your Ubiquiti gear you will need an Unifi Controller at some point unless you want to pay for the cloud-hosted one. If you are into Docker
bitwarden
In case you are not familiar with it, world password day (#passwordday) is a thing! Going back to 2013, it's celebrated on the 1st Thursday of May, and this year it's May 6th. Same as the #worldbackupday in March, password day is here to help us
docker
Guess this article was long overdue considering how many Docker containers I run and a decent amount of those are running via reverse proxy. Considering that I run Docker on Synology NAS, I used the built-in reverse proxy feature for years for several reasons. It was built in, it offered
docker
📢UPDATE: 22/10/2022 - decided to stop serving storage over this service. This was always just a POC, to begin with, but because of a small pool, and almost no return that would make a difference, I have decided to gracefully "retire". To exit your node gracefully,
docker
About a year ago, I have written an article on one of Synology's great apps, the Snapshot and Replication tool. DR - disaster recovery SR - Snapshot and Replication BW - BitWarden In this article, I would like to focus on a specific disaster (DR) test when it
dsm7
📢UPDATE: 21/09/2024 - the process below is also valid for the current DSM 7.2.2-72806 version Use the following VERSION data to get from 7.2.2., to 7.2.1-UP5 in the end: 7.2.0-64570 majorversion="7" minorversion="2" major="
backup
NOTE: 2nd-anniversary winner has been chosen! Details in the Giveaway winner! section of this article 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
nas
📢UPDATE 20.01.2022 - add more info on checking Pushover communication from Synology NAS using command line. 📢UPDATE: added alternative Option 1A for using Pushover email as a push method in DSM 7 Once you start self-hosting your apps and services you will want to be on top of