In this article, we’re walking through the process for replacing a hard disk in a Synolgoy NAS. The NAS model for this walk-through is the “DS720+” running “DSM 7.2.2-72806 Update 5”. Our scenario is that we have 4TB of space in our RAID mirror, and we want to upgrade to
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Comparing Syslog Formats – BSD RFC3164 vs IETF RFC5424
This article compares the two Syslog formats. If you can’t decide, consider “IETF RFC 5424”. This article compares two log entries using different Syslog formats. The event is the same for both entries – logging into a Synology server’s web portal. The user “agix” is logging in from host “10.1.1.100”.
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Synology NAS Not Reporting Disk Issues, But Should
This article describes a situation where the Synology 720+ NAS has poor write performance due to a disk issue. However, the NAS is not reporting an issue. SMART is reporting that everything is OK. First, the symptoms. The following two screenshots show the actual speed when the disk was in
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Synology NAS & UniFi Switch LACP/Aggregation (802.3ad)
This article shows how to configure the Synology NAS and UniFi switch to use multiple ethernet connections to increase speed. In this article, we’re using two Ethernet cables, but more is possible too. The hardware used in this article are: Synology NAS DS720+ running DSM 7.2.1-69057 Update 5 UniFi US-8-60W
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Replace OneDrive with Synology Drive
Windows likes to store documents and other content in OneDrive. But for those using Synology Drive, the idea of replacing the path from OneDrive to Synology Drive is attractive. Note that Synology Drive Client makes a great replacement for OneDrive except where it comes to shared locations. The Synology solution
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Windows 10/11 Minimum Security Settings to Check
This article is a check list of the critical items to check to ensure your computers are baseline secure. Of course, baseline is something you should determine, not me. Here;s a quick list. You may be able to use InTune to manage these items and more. Windows Updates Make sure
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Synology Virtual Machine Settings for Ubuntu
This article shows the correct settings to use for running a Ubuntu Linux virtual machine on the Synology NAS. The default settings wont work, but with a few adjustments, you can easily run Ubuntu Linux virtualization on a Synology NAS. The virtual machine manager settings windows should look similar to
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Restore Files From Hyper Backup S3 Bucket (A Disaster Recovery Test)
The Synology Hyper Backup software is great for creating scheduled backup tasks, but there is basically no guide or documentation on how to do a DR test. Essentially, when doing a DR test, we want to know it’s out-of-band and not going to interrupt production system, and can simulate a
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Backup vTigerCRM on Synology (MySQL / MariaDB)
Synology include the vTiger CRM suite as a plugin/add-on. They didn’t include a backup solution though. This how-to described how to backup the vTiger CRM database. The idea is to dump the database regularly, into a place that some other backup process includes. For example, if you have a “Shared
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Windows 10 Post Install Setup
We don’t tend to install Windows very often these days. It seems to be far more stable than the old days and it mostly just works. But from time to time we do need to install it fresh and there’s a list of things we need to do to make
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