Another Synology Drive data loss bug
Sometimes Synology Drive Client just stops synchronizing files down from the server without telling you that there’s anything wrong. This is bad.
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Synology Drive Client for Linux has a data-loss bug Synology refuses to fix; here’s a workaround
When a program creates a hard link inside your Synology Drive folder on Linux, the Synology Drive Client doesn’t notice it, and therefore that file never gets synchronized to the server. This should be easy to fix, but years after I reported it, it’s still broken.
Why I can no longer recommend Synology
I recently had to replace my old Synology DS415+ NAS with a new Synology DS918+ NAS, at a cost of more than $600, because my DS415+ failed. When I researched the failure that permanently bricked my DS415+, I learned the following: The failure was caused by a known defect in a component of my NAS.… Read More »
Let’s Encrypt with Synology NAS when you can’t open port 80
UPDATE [2022-02-06]: I’m fairly certain nothing in this blog posting is needed anymore with the current version of Synology’s NAS software (DSM). My NAS’s SSL certificate has been renewing automatically for quite a while now without my ever needing to use this script. I don’t know what mechanism DSM is now using to renew Let’s… Read More »
Hack of the day: Synology NAS: “semi-public” Photo Station albums
Shell script for giving a list of DSM users access to all the albums in Photo Station.