Synology setup guide

How can I do this? Hi Pedro, You need to add the second hard drive to the storage pool. Make a note that, the capacity of the hard drive you are adding must be equal to or larger than the primary drive in the storage pool. To add a drive to a storage pool. Now, Go to the Storage Pool page and select the storage pool you want to expand. Select the newly inserted drive.

Follow the wizard to finish the process. Thanks for this guide. I have 1 question. I suppose to have 10TB in total. Why does this happen? Is there any way I can get 10TB? HI Laili, thanks for reaching out. For this, you need to remove the storage pool and created a new one without SHR This will delete all data stored in the hard drive. Very helpful article as I consider purchasing DS How would I create two volumes — one for file storage for music and photos, another for Apple Time Machine backup?

Hi Bill, You can create multiple storage volumes. Check out this official KB from Synology. I also need to be able to take a photo of a receipt on my phone and then upload to a particular file on the drive and then have this uploaded photo available to me on my PCs.

Check out this official post from Synology to create an SHR storage pool that can sustain one drive failure. I may write a dedicated post with detailed steps in the coming days.

You can use Synology Drive as an alternative to Google Drive. It works almost the same as Google Drive. To backup photos captured on your phone, check out this article. Thank you, for your web page I wish I saw it 6 hours ago, something this simple and direct needs to be part of each NAS device Synology has on their site, instead of 50 googles and site searches.

Very useful information as this is my first NAS I really needed this information to get me started. SHR is easy to set up and allows you to mix the drive capacities. SHR allows for 1-disk or 2-disk worth of redundancy. This means, the SHR volume can suffer up to two disks lost, and the data volume will still be available for use. Many thanks Satwik for a really comprehensive and easy to follow guide.

You really helped a novice! I find so many guides often miss out a section which throws the set up, but your screen shots were immensely helpful. I am so glad! Thank you so much for your kind words Mark.

Seems very straight forward step by step instructions. I have a question. Can I use the same volume to storage my files and also another one for surveillance cameras? I know this device have the capability for handle IP cameras so I wonder if I can allocate 1tb only for the surveillance recording and the rest of an 8tb disk I have for my personal files?

Finally, I have a doubt, once I have the volume created I just connect my external hdd to the synology and start copying over my folder structure there or what is recommended to keep my info photos, videos, files organized? Use Google Fonts in Word. Use FaceTime on Android Signal vs.

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This will copy a link to the web installer file so we can download it to our Synology. Back to the SSH session. Change directory into the nextcloud folder, then pull down the Nextcloud web installer:. Your Synology will now pull down the Nextcloud web installer. So, open up a browser and navigate to the following address:. So if the internal IP address for my Synology is Nextcloud will then run a dependency check and because we enabled all the PHP extensions earlier, there should be no issues.

In the field asking where Nextcloud should be installed, delete nextcloud and replace it with a single dot:. Click Next again to continue. This may take a minute or so, but be patient as Nextcloud is being installed.

We now need to configure our database and data folders. So, click Next to continue. There are a number of options to configure here. First things first, enter the username and password you want to use with Nextcloud.

This will be the admin account, so make sure you choose a strong password. This is the shared folder we created earlier. Then click Finish setup. Once again this step may take a minute or so to complete. This is just a weird bug in Nextcloud. Leave it for 5 minutes and refresh the page; you should then see the Nextcloud login page.

Nextcloud is now installed on your Synology NAS. We now need to configure your Synology so you can actually access Nextcloud from the Internet…. At this point we need to flip back to the Synology web interface so we can configure a new virtual host in Web Station. Open up the Web Station application and click on the Virtual Hosts tab. From here, click on the Create button to setup a new virtual host.

So anywhere you see this domain listed, make sure you replace it with the sub-domain you intend to use for Nextcloud. In the virtual host window, select the Name-based option and enter your sub-domain as the hostname. If you prefer to set a custom port for Nextcloud, just change the settings as you see fit. Click OK and you will get a message relating to assigning permissions to this virtual host.

Click Yes on this message. Still in the Synology web interface, open up the Control Panel and select Security , then Certificate. Click on the Add button to create a new certificate for Nextcloud. Still in the certificate tab, click on the Configure button.

In the popup that appears, look for the Nextcloud virtual host that you created earlier — this will be shown as a domain name — and change the certificate from the default option to the Nextcloud certificate you just created. Finally, click OK to apply those changes. Now if you visit your Nextcloud instance in your browser, you should see a valid certificate and no warning message. Instead, you will now get an Untrusted Domain error message similar to this:.

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