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How secure if automount of ecryptsfs in Synology NAS

I'm using automount for my ecryptfs folders in the Synology NAS. I'm wondering where the Key Manager stores the keys and how easy it is to read my encrypted folders in case of theft of the NAS. I ...
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Debian on Synology NAS keeps changing timezone

I have a Debian setup running on Synology NAS Virtual Machine Manager and it keeps changing the timezone. At the top of the screenshot above you can see that the timezone was GMT -4. then, at the ...
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descript synology folder from backup

Last week my Synology diskstation had a crash of its volume. I was able to recover all files from a backup and my VMs by offloading the VDMK files, but one of the directories I only have in encrypted ...
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Checksum comparison file too large

I am trying to run a checksum comparison task on a large folder that I rsync from one Synology server to another. What I am trying to get is an output that shows me any differences between the ...
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Updating DS918+ to DSM 6.2.3-25426 seems to have broken network connection

I updated to DSM 6.2.3-25426 last night and since then my DS918+ drops off the network after 30-60mins. Sometimes I can ping it, sometimes not. WebUI goes down, cannot even SSH. Tried via LAN1 (...
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Tracing SSH/login process and properly isolating filesystem from unauthorized access

For some context, I am dealing with a Synology RackStation unit running a near-fully updated version of DSM. The specifics of that are nice to know if you're familiar with Synology but not necessary, ...
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How can I install visudo on Synology DSM?

I want to edit the sudoers file on my Synology Disk Station (specifically, to enabled password-less shutdown), however my version of Synology DSM does not have visudo installed. How can I install it ...
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How to verify that files in A folder are also in B folder

I use my synology DS1515+ and DSM 6.2.2. First of all, please refer to the picture as below; First, I download some video files. Examples of filenames are as above. And second step is that copying ...
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Is it possible to make a loop that creates a variable out of each directory name within a directory when the directories are not always the same?

I am working on a script to run on my Synology DS 1019+ that takes all the subfolders within a certain directory, creates the subfolders in another directory, then creates hard links of all the .mkv ...
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How to keep only one largest size file and delete all other files

There are 3 or 4 files in same directory as below; AAA.360p.mp4 AAA.450p.mp4 AAA.720p.mp4 AAA.1080p.mp4 Filenames of those files are almost the same except expression of frame resolution. (AAA is ...
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Synology - `du -sh .` takes forever on the NAS but no time when mounted on Mac

My NAS has seemed slow and I'm not sure what tests to run to prove this. But this example I'm about to describe has happened and something has really gone bad. I'm hoping for answers for what I need ...
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zipcmp in Synology NAS?

I want to compare a large zipped file in my Synology NAS to a copy of it I made that is on an external hard drive. I have heard zipcmp is good for this. However, if I am downloading zipcmp or ...
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linux tc network traffic control

I am using a Synology NAS and within their control panel one can set up network traffic control and set a limit. With nothing set, one would assume there is no limit and it would run as fast as ...
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Which OS can I install on my old Synology DS107?

I have an old Synology DS107 (whose CPU is a Freescale PowerQUICC II MPC8241 PPC SATA, 64-bit) that I would like to recycle. I cannot find a list of the OS I can install on it. I would like to have a ...
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Non-root SSH key authentication problems with DSM 6

With Synology DSM 6 it seems that SSH requires users to be members of the admin group. However, even in this case there seem to be problems with file/directory permissions that prevent key-based ...
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I'm trying to install apt-get onto an ARM64 using DPKG

I have a Synology NAS - and I'm attempting to install docker onto it. To do that I need apt-get as my package manager, and nothing is panning out. It seems like because I have ARM the methods I've ...
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Help me understand the recovered file system

So I had a Synology machine that went bottoms up (motherboard). I built a debian system myself and installed the hard disks today. After some twiddling with mdadm I was able to mount the both hard ...
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rsync folder size discrepancy

I'm running rsync between two Synology NAS machines. However, after running, there is a huge size discrepancy between the source and destination folders - as in, the source folder reads as 6.64 TB/...
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Shrink JBOD/linear Raid on synology

I had 2x6TB drive and a JBOD volume because the data isn't really critical and couldn't afford to lose half the space for a raid 1. Now (a couple years later) I bought 2x8TB new drives for my 4 -bay ...
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Figure out reason for wakeup

So I have this Synology NAS (DS213+) at home, which apparently uses a rather limited custom Linux (2.6.32.12). For quite some time now I noticed it starting up frequently, even though I'm not ...
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How to get a Synology backup reports from remote server?

I'm newbie with Synology. I've a DS218j model and I use it to save backups from multiple hosts. I need to get a report of each periodic backup task, but I need automatize this task for generate the ...
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Docker IP forwarding for bridged container with Apache

I am using LAMP image for my DOCKER container and in my apache access.log all of the requests are from same ip address: 172.17.0.1. This is bridge ip. My question is: is there a possibility to forward ...
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Is it posible to automatic change password for a synology user everyday?

So my question is if its possible to change a password for a user/ftp user every day and save it or email it out. We have an FTP public user that we want to have dynamic password change every day so ...
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.sh Script to find and delete folders of a variable name

I have a very unique issue whereby when I have certain Macs accessing our Synology NAS the Mac (Via Office 2016) create temporary files like in the screenshot. These files are related to the Office ...
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Synology automatic unrar and cleanup script

I've been playing around with Synology unrar capabilities and wrote a small script. #!/bin/sh if [ x"$1" == x"" ]; then echo "usage: $0 /dir_with_rars" exit 1 fi find "$1" -name "*....
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Host unreacheable from laptop but reacheable from desktop

I have a Synology NAS at home (let's call it ananas), it is attached to my router via ethernet. I also have a desktop (let's call it Aero), it is connected to the same router via wifi. I configured in ...
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GitLab Container Not Accepting WAN Connection

Been dealing with this issue for a couple hours now and hit a bit of a standstill as far as my experience and google abilities. Got the most recent version of gitlab installed, after having a similar ...
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How to access Synology nas available hard disk space through ssh?

I recently bought a Synology nas server and installed a 4TB HDD. Now when accessing the nas through ssh, I checked how much space I have on my root account, and I found out it was only 1.5 GB. But ...
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Synology NAS insmod unknown symbol

I'm trying to follow this guide to setup NAT on my Synology NAS. It worked great for me! I had everything working perfectly. But when I came back the next morning, the NAS had done a system update [...
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Command to Search for Filenames Exceeding 143 Characters?

So some background first: I am attempting to convert a non-encrypted shared folder into an encrypted one on my Synology NAS and am seeing this error: So I would like to locate the offending files so ...
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Shrink MDADM Raid 5 containing LVM

The plan: I've been growing a Raid5 array in a personal server for some years, and the time has come to move to something more suited to this application. I've accumulated 6x 8tb drives containing ...
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How wait for eth0 interface before running “ip link”, “ip addr” and “ip route” commands?

I have the following script that I need to run on my Synology NAS at boot-up. The Synology NAS has built-in scheduled tasks with the ability to trigger tasks at boot-up. The script I need to run is ...
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What are .xsh files? How to see its contents?

The synology ipkg installer bootstraps with a file, with name ending .xsh. How can I see what is inside such file?
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How to recover data from synology Raid 5?

My old synology server (cs407s), died. So I'm trying to retrieve the data from the disk. I have tree disks from RAID 5. I tried to mount the disk on computer running grml. # lsblk sda 8:0 0 ...
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Renaming Multiple files in different directories [duplicate]

I have about 5TB of data stored on Synology NAS servers with a DSM of 6.1+, so bash should be available for use on these systems. The issue is that we are currently archiving this data to external ...
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“Command not found” when using ssh and non absolute commands

I want to use a command over ssh: ssh myuser@myhost mycommand but doing so I always get: sh: mycommand: command not found using following obviously works: ssh myuser@myhost /usr/local/bin/...
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meaning of @ in (btrfs?) pathnames

I have noticed that Synology NAS devices preface many system-relevant links or directory names with the @ character. I've just noticed that the standard partitioning in openSUSE does the same when ...
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ssh to docker container breaks after 45 seconds

I have docker running on a synology nas. The nas has a private network (172.17.0.0/16) where docker places the containers. It also has a public facing interface on my lan, call it 10.11.12.10/24. ...
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Mounting unix to synology nas and special characters

I'm trying to mount my Synology NAS to Ubuntu with fstab, and I have some folders on the NAS containing '!' in the folder name, as well as spaces. The spaces I found out that I can escape with \040, ...
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Synology - USB TV tuner not recognised

I’ve got a DS218+ Synology NAS drive along with a Hauppauge ‘WinTV-dualHD’ USV tv tuner (model number is 1590). I’m trying to get the two working together, however I cannot get the Synology box to ...
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ssh Unable to negotiate: “no matching cipher found”, is rejecting cbc

I am trying to ssh to remote machine, the attempt fails: $ ssh -vvv admin@192.168.100.14 OpenSSH_7.7p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2o 27 Mar 2018 ..... debug2: ciphers ctos: aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-...
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(Complicated) RAID hard drive issue

I have a (complicated) RAID hard drive issue: I have a Synology DS413j with 4 hds, hd 3 failed so I decided to replace them. The official support article says to replace them one by one, and being ...
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How can I run a VM on a diskstation DS218 from an external drive

The virtual machine manager package from synology (version 2.3.1-8926) does not allow me to run a VM from a USB drive. I would like to load the virtual machine image from a external disk so that the ...
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Remote copy via SCP doesn't work in background

The situation: I'm switching file servers at home. I want to copy tons of data from one Synology Disk Station to another. My Approach: #Via SSH on the new server: nohup scp -r ${old_server}:. . I ...
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Error installing ipkg on Synology NAS DS414

I have been trying to install ipkg on a Synology NAS according to the instructions available at https://github.com/basmussen/ds414-boostrap-dsm5 Here's the beginning part of the instructions: wget ...
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find + xargs - copy/move files from one subdir to another

My folder structure is like this: /volume1 /photoTest /folderA /@eaDir /eaDir_tmp /folderB /@eaDir /eaDir_tmp /folder with space /@eaDir /eaDir_tmp ...
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Why does Synology DSM's “USB Copy” skip Umlaut-named files?

Background I have a large number of files from my mac that I first copied to a FAT32 hard drive and now migrated to a Synology NAS (DS216 with DSM 6 in my case, using ext4 internally) with rsync. I ...
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PostgreSQL Remote Connection on NAS Synology DS216j

This is what I would like to achieve: I have postgreSQL database running on NAS Synology Diskstation DS216j connected to my router. I want to be able to connect and use the database from remote ...
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Using sshfs with Synology NAS results in connection reset

I use sshfs to mount a folder from a synology NAS (DS216+) locally to my Ubuntu machine. The command I use is sshfs -o uid=1234,gid=1234,allow_other,default_permissions mysynology.box.com: /mnt/local....
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PostgreSql port open on NAS Synology DiskStation (DS216j)

How is possible to check if the port 5432 of my NAS synology DiskStation (DS216j) (IP address 192.168.0.16 ) is open? I have (in the control panel of the NAS), enabled the firewall and created a rule ...

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