Hey everyone! I've been having a blast self-hosting on my DS1522+ and looking for ideas on what to tackle next.

My setup:

- Synology DS1522+

- 3x 16TB HDDs

- 1TB NVMe cache

Projects I've already got running:

- Jellyfin — media server

- Pi-hole — network-wide ad blocking

- Tailscale — remote access VPN

- ProtonVPN — VPN tunneling

- Synology photos

I feel like I've covered the main media server bases. Looking for what else is worth setting up?

Noticing that videos that used to play fine suddenly don’t play or stutter. Some are MP4, WMV and MPG so there is no specific file type is affected. DS418play Version: 7.3.2-86009 Update 3. Advanced Media Extensions installed.

Anyone else experiencing this? Any advice?

This is a script (for a scheduled task in my case) to disconnect and reconnect OpenVPN.

This is mostly pulled together from various other people's stuff online, but none of their scripts worked for me out of the box. Hence this.

If you want the logging to work you'll need to create /volume1/Media/Logs

I'm using:

• DS220+

• DSM 7.3.2-86009 Update 3

• Built-in OpenVPN support

• IPVanish as my VPN provider

  Force a reconnect for the specific VPN profile

  #VPN Names and Conf IDs: #Brussels17, o1775835752

  DAY0=date -I TIME0=date -u touch /volume1/Media/Logs/vpn-$DAY0.log

  echo "--Task running at:" $TIME0 >>/volume1/Media/Logs/vpn-$DAY0.log /usr/syno/bin/synovpnc get_conn >>/volume1/Media/Logs/vpn-$DAY0.log

  echo "Killing client" >>/volume1/Media/Logs/vpn-$DAY0.log /usr/syno/bin/synovpnc kill_client

  Sleep 10

  echo "Creating vpnc_connecting file" >>/volume1/Media/Logs/vpn-$DAY0.log echo "conf_id=o1775835752" > /usr/syno/etc/synovpnclient/vpnc_connecting echo "conf_name=Brussels17" >> /usr/syno/etc/synovpnclient/vpnc_connecting echo "proto=openvpn" >> /usr/syno/etc/synovpnclient/vpnc_connecting

  echo "Reconnecting" >>/volume1/Media/Logs/vpn-$DAY0.log /usr/syno/bin/synovpnc reconnect --protocol=openvpn --name=Brussels17 --retry=5 --interval=30

  Sleep 5

  TIME0=date -u echo "Connections as at:" $TIME0 >>/volume1/Media/Logs/vpn-$DAY0.log /usr/syno/bin/synovpnc get_conn >>/volume1/Media/Logs/vpn-$DAY0.log

  echo "--Task completed at:" $TIME0 >>/volume1/Media/Logs/vpn-$DAY0.log

In advance I want to say thanks to who ever is helping me because the support inside synology¨s website is hot garbage, everything AI no option to call a tech support human. That is not OK.

My 920 stopped working and I was out of warranty so I upgrgraded to a 1525+

I installed the drives from the 920 and turned it on.

It recognized the drives and when I was asked to either keep setting or to set it up as new. I clicked on keep settings.

Then I go to find.synology.com

Finds the 2 IP addresses

Takes on my old user and password but when I try to get the 2FA it never comes through. My phone never receives the request so I cant log in.

I search around and I decide to do the hard reset to make the 1525+ like it came out of the box and maybe this time I can set it up as new because there is some kind of issue even the login page still shows up as a 920+ even when I select one of the 2 IP numbers and it says it is a 1525+

So I removed the hard drives and tried to do the hard reset . push for 4 seconds until beep. immediately remove paper clip then push for 4 seconds and it is supposed to do 3 beeps (as per every youtube I found) but it only does it once and wont do the hard reset.

Tried opening a ticket with my synology account because the AI bot only directs me to troubleshooting options , waited a few hours to get a reply written by AI !!! I mean its a bit dissapointing when you spend that much money and not being able to talk to a human.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

I have a ds224+ with 18gb ram. mostly use for docker apps. Also have a ubuntu vm server with 6 gb ram. i was wondering which way is better for performance? hoşt apps in contanir manager or install docker on vm and host apps in vm?

Attempting to download Active Backup for Business Recovery Media Creator, to create recovery media for a Windows 11 PC.

The guides point me to Synology downloads web page. On selecting the ABB Recovery Media Creator download, it then says the following:

>"To avoid compatibility issues, we suggest downloading the Active Backup for Business Recovery Media Creator from Active Backup for Business. If you download the Recovery Media Creator from this page, make sure your Active Backup for Business is compatible with the Recovery Media Creator."

So where am I supposed to download the one they suggest? I've looked in ABB on my NAS (DS920+ / DSM 7.3) and can't see a download option. Also looked on my PC in the ABB agent but nothing there.

I can just download from the web site anyway but it's got this warning about doing that.

Confused

Hello

I've a synology ds218j updated to last dsm. Synology drive and some windows pc with last client.

I sync a folder (many files and directories).
Sync is very slow, it sync about 10 files and then stop for 1 minute. The result is that I can't see many folders or I've empty folders.

Client is always in "updating" green

Do you have some info to solve this problem?

Regards

When I try to reinstall my OS (Windows 11) while using Synology Restore Media Creator. I can boot from my flash drive, but after reinstalling the OS from my NAS, I get the following error on reboot.

Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart. We'll restart for you.

Stop code: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE (0x78)

The system doesn't restart where I have to do it manually. It then loads Windows Repair which doesn't fix the issue cause after I reboot, I get the same error as before.

Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart. We'll restart for you.

Stop code: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE (0x78)

How do I fix this?

Hello everyone! My situation is the following; I have a windows PC, a Mac and two iPhones from which I upload photos and videos to the Synology(218j). Basically, I am mainly using it only for backing up files. I have photo backups enabled on both my iPhones on the Photos app (I have the feature that compresses files when transferring toggled OFF on both iPhones). My main problem is that when I, let’s say, want to upload a video from my iPhone to my NAS, the video on my phone is 1.5GB, but on the NAS it is 554MB, but when I download it on my Mac it is back to being 1.5GB. Same with some photos that are uploaded from iPhone. As far as I can tell, this doesn’t happen when uploading from windows PC( using WinSCP). Can someone please help me troubleshoot this? Thank you all in advance!

Hey all,

I am setting up a new to me DS923+

I have 2 pools and 2 volumes - a Worker volume on an SSD Pool with 2x 4TB SSDs and Vault volume on an HDD pool with 2x 8TB HDDs

As the volume names imply, my goal is for all the work to happen on the Worker - with SSD speed and quietness.

Then, the Vault volume is there for less frequently accessed data (and because I cannot afford more SSDs right now). Mainly it houses the old part of my photo catalog and my media for Jellyfin.

This seems to be working wonderfully. The drives barely spin up. But they do still spin up and rattle every few minutes.

So, I wonder how can I take it to the max. And make things maximum quiet.

I am aware, after my last post, that DSM is on all drives and will wake the spinning ones to update the configs across all drives.

And, of course, I have some processes like backups of my photos and storage pool maintenance that wake up the spinning drives. That is unavoidable. And of course of course, when we watch something, it spins up the drives. Also expected.

But what settings, setup etc can I make sure to check and set to make it possible for the spinning drives to spin down most of the time. Perhaps even hibernate. It’s just a family NAS that most of the time does little.