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Synology cloud station drive crashes1/4/2024 Upon opening the package we are greeted with a ton of different cloud providers. If we search the DSM package library, we can see Cloud Sync is a package that might suit our needs, so lets install it and take a look. So knowing that let’s take a look at the free OneDrive backup package on the Synology. I store a lot of data in my OneDrive, including all the photos from my phones, our family photo library, out personal documents and even my software library chewing up around 700GB of my OneDrive storage (I might need to clean that one day) Remember when OneDrive had unlimited storage? So do I I was basically syncing a local copy of the live data as a “backup” I know its not… But, “ It will never happen to me… right?” WRONG. Like I mentioned before, my old backup solution wasn’t great. Thus today, I’m going to check out some of the free methods I can leverage my local storage to keep backups of my important data. The disks with backups on held other VM’s which meant they were always spinning.I was backing up the VMs to the same machine.Whilst I was backing up endpoints and VM’s.And I didn’t differentiate between infrequently changing data (Archives) and frequently Changing data.I didn’t back up my Teams or Sharepoint Sites. My Business OneDrive’s weren’t backed up at all.This actually caused an issue when I got ransomwared.My Personal OneDrive was “Backed up” my just syncing it to my server.Windows Server with the OneDrive client is not a backup My Personal OneDrive, for example, was me just syncing the whole lot to my Storage Server. My “backup” solution previously wasn’t exactly ideal. Especially as you need somewhere to store the data anyway!Īs I kinda alluded too in the previous article. But, there are no ongoing software costs, no license fees and no renewal fees to worry about. It’s not “Free” you still need to buy the NAS itself, put drives in and power it. Today we are continuing our adventures with my Synology DS920+ that was lovingly sent in for review a few months ago. G’day, and welcome back to UCMadScientist. Should you have an uninterruptable power supply (UPS), Synology allows you to hook up the NAS to a UPS via USB to have it continue operation or perform a safe shutdown should a power loss occur.My DS920+ there are many like it, but this one is mine Note that some apps and services you run on the NAS will override these settings and not allow your HDDs to hibernate. Not only can you configure internal drives to go to sleep after a certain time of inactivity, but also external HDDs too. Hibernating your drives is a great decision if you don't require drive access all the time, but don't fancy having the entire system shut down to save power. This not only saves on wear and tear but also power. For example, you could set power schedules so the NAS would boot up at 7 a.m. This is handy if you use the NAS in an office or at home and only require access at certain parts of the day. Power schedules allow you to set just when the NAS will start up or shut down. LED Brightness - Set just how bright (or dim) the LEDs are for status indicators.Fan Speed - Configure how quiet you wish the fan(s) to operate.Beep Control - Decide when the NAS will perform a system audio sound.Power Recovery - Set whether the NAS should auto-start on power failure or LAN activity.Fire up the Control Panel and select " Hardware & Power." Next, you'll be greeted by four tabs' worth of settings.
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