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Beginning in 2021, Synology rolled out their HDD HAT5300 series of drives, and following that they have changed their HDD compatibility policy. Now I did write about those drives and those policy changes a bit back in January and March of 2021, but I wanted to reflect on this a
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This will be a quick (DSM 7) tutorial to show how you can use two remote NAS devices and perform a Hyper Backup over the Internet while maintaining the security of your data both in transit and at the final destination. Example scenario - "Backing up to a friend'
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In this article, I would like to talk a bit about backup, your desktop backup that is. Specifically, macOS. Now, if you are a Mac user you must have heard about Time Machine right? TM is a built-in macOS backup app that allows you to run backups of your
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📢UPDATE: 10/10/2022 - Reports on social media are indicating an elevated brute force attack against Synology NAS users. Be sure to read the "What should I do?" section below for some quick pointers on how to harden your box. At the moment an attack is not officially
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If you have been using Synology for a while, you will know that iSCSI support has been in there since forever. In the new DSM 7, this particular set of features are being removed from the DSM 6 Storage Manager, and now have a dedicated package called SAN Manager. Before
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At the beginning of the year, Synology has announced their HDD lineup of branded drives, and last year's NVMe and SSD models as well. Well today, we are getting more drives! This time around we are getting three SAS-type drives from their HAS5300 series. Coming in capacities
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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
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📢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, follow
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📢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"
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📢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
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Well, we all saw this coming right? No? You must be new to the world of NAS and Synology. Don't worry this is normal. On March 19th, 2021., Synology made an official announcement that they will discontinue their Cloud Station suite set of tools in favor of their
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Synology is on the go by the looks of it. Not just are they working on the latest DSM 7 OS version that should come out this spring/summer, but also are pushing their hardware elements further. Last year we go new NVMe and SATA SSDs marking the beginning of