Questions tagged [network-attached-storage]
NAS stands for Network Attached Storage, a mechanism for providing file-level access to storage across a network.
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Recover Raid in Synology DSM 7
After a DSM update, an issue with Synology branded cache drives caused my pool to crash and become unavailable. The 3 dots on the bottom only had the option to remove the pool, no option to enable ...
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Noise of DS1813+ suddenly increased - how to determine what's causing it
My 9 year old DS1813+ started to make strange noises a few days ago.
I haven't changed any HW since months and at first i thought it might be the fans at the back, so i changed both but the noise ...
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Unable to connect to local Fedora Samba share. What am I doing wrong?
New to networking. Created a samba share in Fedora Server. This samba share is supposed to connect to a raid0 pool (2x4TB WD Red) that I created. The mount point of the raid0 pool is /raid0pool.
The ...
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Error writing lock file: Permission denied
(On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS)
After connecting my NAS drive with the mount command in the nashome directory,
the following error occurs, when trying to edit or create any file in the mounted directory tree:
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Windows storage server 2019 exported NFS: chown permission denied
I've not been a windows server guy for a long time, so I'm not super familiar with the newer MS server OSes... but I'm trying to link up my linux host to a NAS at a customer site. Their NAS is ...
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Steps to succesfully persistent iSCSI LUN using Open-iSCSI on Ubuntu Server?
Using Ubuntu Linux Server 22.04 minimal edition without GUI, I need some help in mounting the iSCSI LUN using Open-iSCSI so it is mapped to /dev/sdb with the below command:
Could you please let me ...
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NFSv4.1 mount is extremly slow until remount
I have an issue that I don't know how to debug. I hope you can help me further with this.
In my group, I administer a Linux compute cluster that consists of multiple compute machines and a Synology ...
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Can you use a SAS fan-out cable to connect more drives?
I bought a Broadcom 9400-16e HBA that has four external ports. I was hoping that by using four mini-SAS cables that fan-out to two, I could double the number of connected drives from 16 to 32. However,...
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Difference between SMB and NAS
I am getting aboard my family businesses and every thing is made with Microsoft. I see that 90% of the processes can be done with free software, and in this case, file sharing. My father always ...
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Which RAID is best for private use of NAS [closed]
I want to buy the DS 920+ with (4x)6TB Seagate IronWolf NAS HDD.
I definitely want some reliability. I obviously don't want to lose any data which is stored on the NAS.
Which RAID would be the best?
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Cannot get over 100k iops from storage on 10g network on 4k random blocks
My setup description:
storage system for vm storage: supermicro server, 1-socket Xeon E5-2620 v4, 82599ES-intel-based RA-Link 10GE network adapter, 8x pci-e 2.0, plugged in 8x pci-e 3.0 slot, debian ...
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SAN Solution for diverse VM Servers
I recently got my fingers into Server Administration. I am currently the only person administering an air gapped network with 8 sites. Most things are dated and old but I get the money to renew things....
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Windows 10 struggles to see files in DFS path after changing the target
A little background: I'm a programmer for a small company, and we have a lot of internal python tools that employees run. Our "deployment" process clones our git repo into a deployment ...
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Why is the Synology NAS not starting the VPN connection automatically
Our remote Synology NAS box is configured to connect to the local NAS box via VPN.
Reconnect when the VPN connection is lost is ticked in the Control Panel -> Network->Network Interface section.
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Unable to mount SMB shared : mount error(95): Operation not supported
I have created a shared folder in QNAP TS-433. I can mount the SMB share on a Windows client. I am unable to mount the SMB share on Linux (Centos 6.8).
mount -t cifs -o ver=3.0,user=test //172.17.134....
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Encryption at rest for VM storage in a hypervisor done properly/elegantly
Given a very simple infrastructure - a single machine running a hypervisor(Proxmox if it matters), I want to achieve a good data protection against the hardware being stolen.
Let's say there are ...
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NAS de-duplication best practices - how do hardlinks handle compression?
I just joined a SMB as their first full-time tech guy, and the company's backup architecture is a mess. Leaving aside all other issues (of which there are many), the office has multiple different NAS ...
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Are Western Digital SSDs compatible with QNAP TS-469U-RP NAS?
I just purchased a QNAP TS-469U-RP NAS. It is my understanding that just about any SSD will be compatible to work in a NAS, as long as the make and model of all four drives are identical. That being ...
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Is it possible to create a backup RAID 5 on a nas by replacing 1 drive at a time? [closed]
During a recent office relocation my QNAP TS-509 (RAID 5 with 4 2tb WD Red) wouldn't boot properly and fooling around trying to correct that I lost the volume. As I was expanding my very limited ...
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How to reset the resolv.conf file on a Synology Diskstation NAS?
Quick question from a newbie: Is there a way to simply reset the resolv.conf file? According to Synology support, my resolv.conf shows some strange DNS servers, which I have never specified. How can I ...
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Shared network attached storage - trunked with multiple vlans?
I am introducing an NFS server which I would like to share with KVM guests across different VLANS. I am trying to find a solution which would strike a good balance between function, serviceability, ...
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Issues during Synology NAS LUN backup
I'm having an issue with my Synology DS210j, DSM 4.2-3211 version.
NAS LUN backup fail issues began occurring for some time, with different backup tasks failing.
Issue reported in logs for this job is:...
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Best way to store database file on a NAS and run the server on a computer
I have a txt file more than 250go
I want to create a database with that and access it by a python program that I'll be coding.
I have a NAS server on my local network ( 1gbit network )
And I would ...
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What is this "phantom" group?
My LXC container mounts a NAS on /share.
$ ls -lha /
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drwxrws--- 8 nobody 4000 153 Mar 21 16:22 share
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Since I cannot login as nobody user, I tried to make myself a member of the 4000 ...
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NAS solution for a synced two geo-location Active - Active
We are looking for an open source solution to NAS.
We are going to use it on two different server farms with two different geo-location (expected capacity is 10TB).
It should have the following ...
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Transferring data between a QNAP and Synology NAS over distance
I have two NAS devices, one from Qnap, one from Synology, each in a different city and need to transfer tens of GB between them. The Synology is accessible through QuickConnect and the Qnap through ...
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Determining Required LUN Level Uniqueness
I have primarily used NFS for most of my storage needs but I find my self setting up some iSCSI targets today and had what is likely a super basic question.
When I create an export for an iSCSI target,...
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How to make one volume with maximal capacity out of the two disks in a 2-bay NAS without striping
I have a Synology NAS with two disks which I want to combine to one large volume for backing up an other system.
I don't need redundancy, so something like RAID 0 would do. However I don't need the ...
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Unable to access Qnap NAS device
I have a Qnap NAS connected to Qnap QSW-M2108-2C managed switch. That switch has one port leading to the internet and another port connected to a MacBook running Qfinder Pro. Everything was working ...
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Rsync from MacOS to Synology NAS: "@ERROR: host is denied to login"
I'm using a Synology S420j (running DSM 6.2.4-25556) to backup files from my Mac (Monterey v12.1) using the following command:
rsync -avz --backup rsync-user@nas.local::backups/
This has previously ...
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Is there a risk for HDD being loosely packaged for transportation?
I have received two HDDs (for a NAS) in a loosely package and not really sure if it is safe to keep them. My concern is that they might have been damaged during transportation. Although it doesn't ...
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WD MyCloud NAS - 1 Failed Drive replaced, found another dead one before array was rebuilt [closed]
I have a WD MyCloud 4-bay NAS with 4x 3tb drives in it setup in a RAID10 configuration (with a total RAIDed capacity of 5.5tb). A drive had failed and I got it replaced. When I entered the dashboard ...
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How do I backup my Synology NAS to an an expansion unit to carry offsite?
My intent is to use an expansion unit (DX517) to backup my DS920+ NAS, say every week, and then carry it offsite. I hope I bought the right equipment!
I'm an absolute novice at this. All I've done so ...
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NFSV4 w/CHMOD & CHGRP
I'm just starting off with NFSV4 and had a few questions. So normally when creating an NFS share on a NAS filer and mounting on a client I would run a chmod & chgrp to set things up the way I want....
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Cannot reach Synology NAS with Windows Explorer
I cannot access the office Synology NAS from one of the clients on the network, using Windows Explorer.
When I click its icon in the Network section, I get an error:
"Couldn't access \\...
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MS Access database across small company LAN: NAS vs virtualized Windows Server
I'm currently developing a small sized Windows application.
For compatibility reasons, I'm limited to use MS Access as DB "backend" (migration to SQL Server planned but not doable yet).
In ...
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High speed network writes with large capacity storage
I have a NAS running Samba with a 20T ZFS pool with one raid1 vdev with two spinning rust drives. I have 16G RAM in the machine right now. The storage is used for continuously growing, permanent ...
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What are the risks of using myQNAPcloud?
In my organization we have QNAP NAS, which is currently behind NAT, but with port forwarding it's accessible from Internet by our domain. Recently I've learned about myQNAPcloud service. As I ...
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Are Samsung B-Die and C-Die Compatible?
I am building a NAS (running TrueNAS/FreeNAS) using a SuperMicro A2SDi-8C+-HLN4F motherboard. I ordered 2 sticks of this Samsung C-Die RAM from a supplier but they could only send me 1 as it was the ...
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mount nfs as another folder on home
I have purchased a WD-Ex2 NAS and am trying to share a folder via nfs with my ubuntu machine.
This folder will be used only by this machine and I want to be able to have execute permissions with my ...
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Synology NAS Volume Crashed - SHR RAID
I have synalogy DS414j with 4 WD disk ( each of size 3726 GB ). I have 1 volume with Synology Hybrid RAID with capacity of 10.82 TB ( 10.67 TB Used)
One of the disks (Disk 1) was not being detected ...
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How can I reset share passwords for WD Sharespace using root in SSH?
I have a Western Digital ShareSpace Disk Array NAS (Same one in this manual : https://docs.rs-online.com/49a1/0900766b80ce7e97.pdf )
The system has an existing number of shares, with a lot of files ...
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Glusterfs on Synology NAS?
I run a machine-learning cluster for my small business. The cluster consists of three Ubuntu servers. The 10TB /home directory, provided by Server 1, is shared across all servers and is almost full.
I'...
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windows backup server (windows server 2012 R2) difference in backup dates
Windows Backup Server is doing successful backups on a shared folder at QNAP NAS.
But dates of backups on the server and dates on NAS are different.
Last backup on the server was on 04.07.2021 and it ...
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NETGEAR NAS capped at 1.3MB/s transfer rate across VPN
We have many NAS devices at our company and one is remote. It is connected to a Meraki MX64 which connects to our local network at the company. While transferring data over to it, the speed seems to ...
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Connection to Synology VPN server not working
I own two Synology NAS (at different places). The first one is set up as an OpenVPN server. All my devices(android mobile, windows pc, mac) work fine when connected to the synology VPN server but when ...
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Attach network disk as direct
Is where way to attach network disk as direct without creating VHD etc? I want to connect drive directly from one computer to other by network by like iSCSI but without creating VHD.
Not acceptable:
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Synology DS2415+ no ssh logs
as the title says, my synology sshd service appears to not be producing any ssh logs.
I've tried this guide: https://sites.google.com/site/benbriedis/ssh-on-synology without success.
I need the logs ...
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Dell NX3330 installing Windows Server OS? [closed]
Recently my company upgraded our storage system and now we have a few old Dell Power Vault NX3330 sitting around not being used.
So I heard that it is possible to install the full windows server OS ...
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Zyxel NAS Server hard drive data recovery
I had a Zyxel NSA-325v2 NAS Server, however the server failed and I cannot connect to it anymore and now I am trying to recover the data, however I have no idea which disk format it used.
Windows ...
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