When Synology migrated from Moments to Photos, they dropped the image recognition. I’m specifically calling out the feature that detected cats, dogs, food, beach, whatever.

Anyone have a recommendation on what I might use (in Docker maybe) to fill the need?

I do not want to migrate away from Synology Photos, just supplement it.

Not sure if the community has already talked about this. Just came across the article mentioning it. Might cost around the same as the DS220+ does now?

I would like to deploy my own Omnivore instance on my NAS via Docker. In the repo, there actually is a Docker compose file, but unfortunately it's too complex for my current docker skills and I can't get it to run. :-( Does anybody happen to have achieved this and is willing to share their docker-compose.yml? I'd be super grateful.

(PS. I've just found out that there's also a Dockerfile and a script specifically for self-hosting; I haven't tried this option yet.)

This morning I updated my DS1621+ from DSM 7.1.1-42962 U6 to DSM 7.2-64570 U1. After the update I am no longer able to access shared folders from my Ubuntu machine. All errors in terminal and Portainer indicate "access denied", though no passwords have changed, and I am still able to access the shared folders from Windows. I am mounting shared folders with SMB but also tried NFS when SMB stopped working, as that appears to potentially be easier to manage (no usernames/passwords?).

Any help or direction to a fix is greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Realized I had a typo in my mount command for mounting an NFS share - I was using ip.address:/shared_folder instead of ip.addres:/volume_name/shared_folder. Fixed that and now have no problems using NFS to mount the shared folders to the same mount point as before, so for me that's a suitable workaround and presumably a better solution than SMB anyway, since both client and server are Linux OSes anyway.

Edit: aaaand it's gone. Rest in peace, little hard drive.

Every once in a while, my DS720+ warns me that there's been a "checksum mismatch on file [ ]", as seen in the attached screenshot. What the fuck is that supposed to mean, what do I do with this? Why is there no file name?

Some context: One of my drives seems to be failing, maybe, possibly, and I'd been getting similar checksum mismatch warnings but they'd at least include a path and filename (as far as I can tell they were all temp files). SMART data tells me there are bad clusters, but different diagnostic tools have given me different results (the Seagate tool tells me the drive is perfectly healthy). A few days ago, I removed the drive and connected it to my PC, ran chkdsk on it, no issues. I put the drive back and put some data on it that I don't mind terribly losing to see what it's doing now. Since then, the warnings have been less frequent but they aren't giving me a file name anymore.

So I suspect these warnings are about that drive but now I'm out of ideas. I'm also fairly new at this stuff, bare with me. Anyone got any clues for me, please and thank you?

As titled. I receive these reports from other servers like Google / Yahoo / Outlook.com, but I want to 'play nice' in the world of email exchange and do my part in generating these reports for other e-mail servers as necessary.

I doubt Synology Mail Server generates these reports by default. So is there any way to set up DMARC RUA/RUF report generation?

After Amazon recently TOSd my photo backups with no explanation I began looking into solutions where Ai recognition could be used completely offline.

I found this app called Exire Foto which does a pretty good job at tagging and an excellent job at deduping. I work in volume photography and it’s able to quickly and accurately dedupe a huge amount of files.

I’m not a shill, so I will admit that there are limits and the software doesn’t nail the tags every time. On the upside the tags are written to directly to the files so wherever they end up that data is persevered.

I’m unsure if I will continue to use this after Synology adds object recognition back to the Photos app. If Synology doesn’t write their image tags to the files then Excire may be a better solution depending on your use case.

Hope this is useful to someone out there.

Over at mariushosting, Marius posted a tutorial on how to get Lemmy running on your Synology NAS. So if anybody is eager to giveit a try, there you go. :-)

PS: Please consider donating something, anything to the guy - he really keeps delivering and has done a lot for Synology users, helping everyone get started with all things Docker!

Hello, I currently use Active Backup for Business on my NAS to backup my Linux servers. However I saw that you can also backup MacOS computers. I own a MacBook and an iMac. However the iMac is mostly locked but turned on.

Do Macs have to be actively used while backing up to your NAS or does this work even when the screen is locked and the screen of the iMac is black?

As far as I can tell there are only folders included in reports created with Storage Analyuer. Is there a way to get a report that includes files as well? Or is there another tool for that?

Inclusion of BTRFS makes this an excellent entry level data backup solution.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/679531

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/679471

Not sure the best place to ask this.

I have a DS420J 4 bay NAS, primarily used for my Plex server and data backups (among a few other things). I currently have 8x6x6 TB Iron Wolf NAS drives in a single volume with SRH and an extra 1 TB SSD JBOD. I have my Plex app and metadata stored on the SSD due to the increased performance I have seen vs. having it installed on the large pool (7200 RPM cap). I am sitting at about 85% used storage of my available 10.8 TB on the primary volume. As such, I am pre-planning my next storage upgrade and am curious about my options while staying with the current hardware. The future plan will be a NAS upgrade, but this little beast has been chugging along so perfectly I want to push it as far as I can.

If I was to remove the 1 TB drive and replace it with another 8 TB Iron Wolf, I would jump to 20 TB available storage. https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator?hdds=6%20TB%7C6%20TB%7C8%20TB%7C8%20TB This increase would last me for quite some time ahead of a full NAS upgrade with more bays. In order to do this, I would obviously need to remove the 1 TB SSD to be replaced by the new drive. I have na external enclosure for this drive that can connect over USB to the NAS.

My question: I am finding somewhat conflicting information on how external drives are intended to be used/what their capabilities are when connected to the USB 3.2 port. It seems the intended functionality for backups (which makes sense). Am I able to utilize a USB connected drive and have it function in a similar manner to it being internal? Are you able to install apps from the Package Center to an external drive? Create volumes? I assume there will be some performance degradation due to the translation from SATA to USB, then back to SATA, but I anticipate the SSD will still perform better than adding the app back to the main pool. I just don’t know if I am potentially missing something with my evaluation. Those that have more experience with USB connected drive with their NAS, I would love to hear your experience. Thanks!

I've held off from updating to DSM 7.x because Synology Photos removed object recognition, a feature I use heavily in Momemts.

They announced recently that this feature will be coming back!

Photography enthusiasts and professionals were not forgotten at the exhibit, with Synology announcing the return of a user-favorite functionality — object recognition in its photo manager. Previously featured in Synology Moments, object recognition will soon be available to millions of Synology Photos users, giving photographers an essential tool to manage and sort their portfolios offline.

I am a bit at a loss what to do next.

2 days ago I got some notifications that Synology could not reach my box. When home I began checking and in fact most things could not find the box. (though fascinatingly SMB could access the box - Lightroom was happily seeing its files on the NAS).

Then I used Synology assistant and found the box (with a new ip ..ugh). But even when I connected the box is not connecting to the internet. I can access it via WIFI on my LAN .. I see the router sees the box, but I cannot connect to the internet.

(I attempted restoring network settings from backup, I rebooted router and box .. no change)

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Is there any good guide how to re-set and set up network settings and external access ?

If I need to restore to factory settings what is the best way to get back up ad running after? and not lose my data?

I have a DS920+ which I haven't upgraded the ram for, so it still has the default 4GB on it. Reading around, it sounds like Synology only supports adding an additional 4GB for it, but some other sites mention putting an additional 8 or 16 into it.

Has anyone upgraded theirs with more ram? What have you added and what were your experiences?

Hello there,

I'm a newcomer to the synology world (although I know my way around GNU/Linux boxes) and I feel that I could use some help because all the shiny features and screens of DSM confuse me a lot.

1- I have a remote webdav server which I want to sync bidirectionally. I finally got that to work using the "Cloud Sync" app, and the files are replicating into my home folder. Within this folder, I have a "Holidays" photo folder which I would like to make available to my smart TV over DLNA, and ideally to the "Photos" app, is there a way to do that? I resorted to SSH into the DS to create a bind mount between "Holidays" and /volumeXYZ/photo/ but the only photo I can see over DLNA is the dummy I uploaded from DSM and messing with permissions doesn't seem to help.

2- I have a remote server from which I want to rsync periodically to back-up a collection of music files, and, similarly those files should become available over DLNA and to other users of DSM. "Active Backup for Business" seems decently featured, it even lets me pick a destination folder, which I specified to be "/music". And now it happily created a mess of what appears to be temp/lock files and config within /music.

In general, what brought me to buying this nas was to have an off-site backup of a server which could double as a media server at home using the same data. So far this experience has been exceedingly frustrating.

Do you experience similar connectivity issues when using a VPN provider for torrenting? I have tried different servers (which allow torrenting), both udp/tcp protocol, and the recommended dns settings, yet it remains quite buggy. Somtimes, it works well and remains stable for a few days or even weeks. But eventuelly it loses connection, although it says it's still connected. Have any of you encountered the same problems? I am using: DSM 6.2.4-25556 Update 7 and Proton as VPN Provider.

I have all my photos in a Synology Photos database and want to do fun stuff with it.

I'm getting the pictures from the Synology and upload them into Home Assistant. Make sure you have access to the database.

Another script pushes them into a Matrix chat room.

It's not very polished but works quite well for me with my family.

Does anyone here have a working setup of automated acme.sh that renews the certificates every three months?

I tried to setup something but I think I saw an error message when I run it, and due to the way let's encrypt rejects requests when the certificate is not due for renewal, I can't really tell what exactly is the problem as I simply can't repeatedly run my process and check where the error stems from.

Would be great if someone can share a setup that they are currently using that works.

Edit: It finally came time to renew again, and what I have already entered into task scheduler was fired, and the certificate seems to have been renewed successfully.

So basically, just download the latest acme.sh, then add a task in your task scheduler that runs this:

bash /root/.acme.sh/acme.sh --renew -d xyz.com

As this community is just starting, I thought learning more about each other's setups would be interesting.

I'll go first:

• DS916
• 4x8TB Hard Drives: 3 WD Reds, 1 Seagate Ironwolf (oldest drive is 53,150 hours or just over 6 years)

I haven't had to replace anything yet (knock on wood)!

• https://www.mariushosting.com
• https://www.blackvoid.club/

I'd like to get to know more. Do you know more worth knowing? :⁠-⁠)