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Network-attached storage (NAS) is file-level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to heterogeneous clients.

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Updating DSM on Synology 920+ When getting not enough space message

I need to update DSM on my Synology 920+. In the past I have never had an issue but with the most recent update I receive the below message: Insufficient system capacity for update I have followed ...
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NAS as storage save against encryption virus?

I want to buy a NAS storage so that I can RAID the HDD's to prevent lost data if a HDD fails and use it as long term storage that I can access anytime. The only non user error way to lose my data I ...
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Moving from Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 to a different manufacturer

my Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 has died, problem with the power and/or power supply, so I want to move the 4 drives set up in RAID 5 to another NAS. I want to move to a different manufacturer so what is ...
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How to detect which drives comprise a full copy in RAID1 and go about recovering?

We had a 4-bay WD NAS in RAID 1 configuration, so each pair should have a full backup. In an attempt to upgrade the NAS without proper procedure, someone just plugged a drive out and swapped it with a ...
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Data Transfer Rate Calculation

I'm looking into building a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device out of an old laptop and extra storage. I'd like to understand what my maximum data transfer rate is out of it before taking on this ...
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Mail migration from Google Workspace to Synology failed halfway. What to do?

I recently bought a Synology DS723+ so that I could migrate away from Google Workspace. I configured the MailPlus Server and started to migrate. The first issue is that it takes forever! One of the ...
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Failed to generate a Let's Encrypt certificate on Asustor NAS with error Ref. 5402

While trying to generate a Let's Encrypt certificate for my Asustor NAS through Settings -> Certificate Manager (following the instructions), the process repeatedly failed with error Ref. 5402. ...
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trying to mirror one storage drive of size 2n to two storage drives of 1n each

use case: I have two hard disk drives of 2tb each. Currently I am mirroring one to the other. The disks however are almost full. I am now planning to get a 4tb hard drive and use that as the original ...
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Trying to invoke play on DLNA-device with streaming from Synology NAS

I am trying out the DLNA protocol for the purpose of invoking media on my LG TV, where the media is stored on a Synology NAS (hosted with Media Server) on the same network. I have successfully found ...
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Can't rename a .part file apache2 webdav server

I have an apache2 server with WebDAV enabled. I can rename and move anything as long as it doesn't end with .part. when I try I get a 404. I can rename a file to end in .part and I can delete and open ...
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Why is my RAID 1 NAS (WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra) reporting RAID health "degraded" after replacing one disk and RAID rebuild?

I have a WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra NAS, almost 6 years old, and got a red light on it recently, indicating a disk problem. The NAS web dashboard reported one of the disks is bad, so I bought a replacement ...
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How to mount a Synology NAS to keep permissions and modification dates?

Which is the best protocol to use to mount a recent Synology NAS (DS1522+) as root in Ubuntu 22.04 to then add a folder for each user and be able to run a cron job to cancel all files older than a ...
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How to access a folder inside of WSL remotely on another linux machine?

I have a NAS setup inside of WSL. The easy part was the server. For what ever reason Windows or Linux doesn't want to play nice with the rest of the network. I was able to get samba working inside of ...
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Intermittent access to a folder on a network share

I and my colleagues are having some network issues. We have access to a NAS device, using Windows authentication, and each of us has that device mapped to a drive letter. Within this drive are ...
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How can I set up a NAS on my PC and connect it to OneDrive? [closed]

I have a Xiaomi Mi 360 security camera, and can only connect to it using a NAS server. However, I want the data from the camera to be saved on my OneDrive storage. Is it possible to use, say, 30GB of ...
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NUL characters appear at the end of some files sometimes

Since I am using Synology to backup my files and sync them between devices, I sometimes get NUL characters at the end of my files and sometimes 2 or 3 lines are deleted randomly at the end of the file....
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Faulty disk replaced but not visible in RAID 1

I have an old NAS called Netgear Stora. It has two SSD drives in RAID1. Unfortunately one of the drives started to light red on the cover and it appeared faulty (also it started to sound very noisy ...
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Loud cracking sound on brand new Seagate Exos 16tb HDDs

Just bought new QNAP NAS and brand new Seagate Exos 16TB X18 HDDs. Everybody who are using them, does they make similar sound as mine? They make so loud clicking and scratching noise that it doesn't ...
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Raspberry PI Nas. 2 same size hard drives but different free space - SOLVED

I have a Raspberry Pi Nas. I used to have 2x Seagate IronWolfs installed but 1 failed just after a year (was not impressed). So I just replaced it with a WD Red Plus. Both are 4TB so I synced my data ...
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Not able to achieve 10Gbe against one device

I have 3 different 10Gbe devices on my network and 2 switches. Switch 1 has a MacMini M2 with a 10Gbe ethernet connected via RJ45. Switch 2 have a Custom NAS and a Ubiquiti NVR connected via SFP+. ...
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How exact do I need to be about replacing disks like-for-like in a RAID 1 NAS? Can I replace a disk with one of greater capacity?

I want to replace one of the disks in my NAS, which currently contains two 6TB disks, arranged in a RAID 1 array. Do I need to replace with a disk of exactly the same size? If "it depends," ...
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Sandisk Extreme Portable SSD (1TB) not visible

I have a SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD (1TB), and have been using it for two years without any issue. This weekend I connected it to a new Synology NAS (DS223) and tried to copy the files over. The ...
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Can't find IP for NAS mapped in file explorer Win11 after router upgrade

Just upgraded my home router from a Netgear Nighthawk R7000 to a TP-Link Deco WE10800. I can see my NAS in Win11 file explorer but nowhere else. Both the Router Admin page on the computer web page and ...
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High availability Server + NAS - TrueNas + Docker

For some time now I have been toying with the idea of having my own server to be able to deploy my applications, web pages, etc. My father has presented me with the idea that he wants to have a NAS to ...
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Is WD PR4100 supports Seagate EXOS X18z ST18000NM009J?

I'm using My Cloud Pro Series PR4100 as NAS storage. I'm using WD Red NAS Hard Drive 6TB×4 HDD right now. I want to change them with Exos™ X18 18TB×4. Is it support?
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Is removing the disks from readynas duo v1 and reconnecting them after performing a factory reset likely to cause data loss?

As mentioned in the topic, ı want to remove disks then perform factory reset to clear mistaken configuration and lastly insert the disks back. Is there any possible data loss chance in this operation? ...
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Windows Server 2022 on Raspberry Pi 4B

I want to make a simple NAS server. I don't, if possible, want to have to buy a server. I have made a NAS on my LAN before with OpenMediaVault on a Pi, but I need the flexibility and tools of Windows. ...
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Vpn setup for remote access of offline nvr

My objective is remote online access of nvr or nas which is not allowed internet access through router settings. Im imagining using my router quickvpn/ l2tp/ pptp options to access nvr. When internet ...
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Put VM on real hardware

I've just bought a new PC. My old one has 16GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD. I want to turn it into an NAS server. I have put Windows Server 2022 into a virtual machine, and configured everything to my liking ...
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Robocopy extremely low performance copying from Synlogy SMB

I want to occasionally backup a media library which is located on my NAS to another drive (6TB WD RED HDD; produced in 2019). The drive is located in my main PC and connected through SATA. The NAS and ...
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Client on different IP range

I had to change my router. The old one had a range of 192.168.11.1 and the new one 192.168.0.1. The problem is that I have a NAS that had an IP set to 192.168.11 and now the new router detect it, but ...
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Use redundant NAS drive as External HDD for laptop

I have swapped out 1 of my 3.5" SATA QNAP 4TB WD Red NAS drives and replaced it with an 8 TB drive. Now I would like to use the replaced disk inside an HDD enclosure and use it on my laptop as ...
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Mount but exclude one subfolder?

I have a Synology NAS in which I use the following command at NAS startup to create a symlink, which works fine: mount --bind "/volume1/SourceFolder" "/volume1/SymlinkFolder" Now I ...
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How to create a Site to Site L2TP/IPSec VPN tunnel between two Synology NAS?

My question is quite simple: I have two Synology NAS devices (running the latest version of DSM and VPN Server) installed at remote locations, each connected to a local LAN with an high-speed Fiber ...
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OpenMediaVault5 NAS [RAID Management] "State: clean, degraded", [File Systems] "Status: Missing"

I do have a NAS that runs OpenMediaVault5 (version:5.5.13-1 (Usul)), use 11 HDD in RAID5 and that have (actually had till today) available 12TB of space. From this morning, all over the sudden, it ...
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XigmaNAS: set different access rights to different SAMBA shares

Here is what XigmaNAS manual says regarding my question: Q: What do I need to do to setup different file / folder access for my Windows clients / users? A: If you carefully follow the basic steps ...
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Why don't some devices return data via site to site VPN?

I have set up a Ubiquiti UDM to UDM VPN. When connecting via a web browser using the remote IP addresses, some remote devices return data (e.g. Reolink doorbell returns live video) and others do not (...
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Btrfs local Snapshots vs Incremental remote Backup

In a NAS context, I'm wondering about the pros of btrfs local snapshots when incremental remote backup is made on a remote server. I'm also wondering about the interest to have both snapshots and ...
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Can't save credentials in Finder for server connection

We have several accounts on a Mac. Each has its own account on a NAS as well connected locally via SMB. I want to pair these on the Mac, but somehow, for example, in my account, it shows different NAS ...
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open VPN issue on Mac connecting fileshare

I have a qnap NAs where I use QVPN service with open VPN. Under windows the connection works fine and I can access all shares. If I do the same with a mac it also connects to the NAS without problems. ...
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Can't get AdGuard-home to work for docker containers

Today I had to remove and re-install my AdGuard-home container. Stupid me... I've removed it before reviewing the full container config, so I don't know exactly how I had it setup before, when it was ...
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Can I swap between two RAIDs on one NAS?

Weird question, confuses Google, not sure where to ask. I want to buy a Synology DS923+ NAS enclosure and load it up with 4 RAIDed drives. Then I'd like to remove those 4 drives and put them away, ...
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CasaOS throwing error "directory not empty" on Upload

I made a home server using RPi running casaOS on top of Raspbian OS lite. Everything seems to work as it should apart of uploading files. Single files usually upload just fine. I tried to upload ...
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Synology NAS: deleted files but space won't go down

I've been facing this problem with my Synology lately: I use the Download Station to download torrents in the folder /volume3/video. I now have downloaded 43 files and I can list them running the ...
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New User Configuring HaProxy for single WAN IP, multiple hosts

I've had a /29 block of static IPs available for the past six years, but with income down and rates up, and up, it's time to reduce my Internet footprint. I'm moving my self-hosted mail servers to ...
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How can I diagnose network errors between my PC and Synology NAS

I've got a Synology 215j NAS connected to my Windows 10 PC, and am running into some intermittent problems accessing the files on the NAS. I run Plex on the PC, with the media files on the NAS, and ...
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Can one make window server VM's use system RAM for file caching?

When using Windows Server 2019 as a virtual machine for serving files, is it possible to convince it to use system RAM for caching to improve performance? We're running several file servers on a box, ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS: cifs_mount failed w/return error -5

In my home network, I have a few very old hard drives in a NAS that I mount with the following fstab configuration: //192.168.1.35/Volume_1 /mnt/Disk1 cifs _netdev,rw,guest,uid=128,iocharset=utf8,vers=...
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Best way to handle remote storage without local copy

I have a directory of data which, until now, has been manually rsyncd to a Synology based remote storage. The problem is that I don't have enough space anymore on the local drive, so I'd like to find ...
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Add Git security exception fails

I have a windows box where I check out a Github repository. Then I make a change and commit that change and then get weird error message about a user mismatch related to file ownership: git clone ...
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