Walter Stovall
I started out with just thousands of picture files when I loaded it all into Synology Photos. I’ve been playing with what it can do for a while, but initially missed the face detection when I setup my account and just turned that on this morning. Initially my login showed a new People folder to … Read more
I have several web sites and other information or entertainment resources on my local network. Since it’s all mine here, it seems silly to not be able to use my own stuff just because the internet is down! But that’s exactly what would normally happen, all because of just one thing…DNS lookups. Let’s say I … Read more
Either way the awesome tools in Synology DSM 7.0 have you covered completely for free and with minimal fuss 🙂 I’ve had a burr in my butt around the need for multifactor authentication on my server, especially for an admin account that if stolen, would be awful needless to say. It’s equally important for other … Read more
If you have a Synology NAS then you can have pretty much everything that Google Photos has, with none of the (no longer free) cost. You also don’t have to give your photos and videos away to google or anybody else that you don’t want to. At the same time, you can share select photos … Read more
My Synology NAS (DS-1520+) has been running DSM 6, which is showing its age. I starting building this in 2018 and recently migrated to this new hardware. The server has been built from scratch with this one major release of the operating system. A few months ago DSM 7.0 was released and I’ve both been … Read more
This is just a little testament to the power of using Active Backup for Business on your NAS for backing up multiple workstations in your home or office. Aside from the many good features in this product, it does a great job of saving disk space by eliminating duplicate data blocks not only from a … Read more
You couldn’t tell it from following my posts here, but back in March I broke my leg bad. My tibia has five nails in it now. I’ve been slowly getting back on my feet and walking for about six months now. That’s why I haven’t been posting here much especially about riding bicycles. I’ve been … Read more
I kind of stumbled on how great Synology Video Station is for playing and sharing your private collection of videos with all your devices, and/or other select people or the public as you designate. Starting out with just the hardware for my DS1520+ server and a private collection of videos, I just downloaded and configured … Read more
To catch you up a little, I recently added a Synology DS1520+ to my home network. I’ve moved at least most of the services that were on my DS918+ onto this new server. In the process I’m learning how to setup a level of redundancy so if one server goes down, I can continue with … Read more
My site is now hosted by a new DS-1520+ server I’ve brought online. In the process I’ve figured out how to move a wordpress site. The steps fell into place pretty smoothly until right near the end when I tried to restore my wordpress database backup and could not! Ultimately I figured out a workaround … Read more