Synology

See also:

• Configuration NAS Wolverine
• Configuration NAS Mystique
• Synology

How-To

Manage CloudStation / Drive ShareSync folder

Note: Cloudstation is discontinued. Now, we use Drive Server, and Drive ShareSync.

Configure the Server

• Install the package Synology Drive Server.
• Go to Main Menu (top left), and launch Synology Drive Admin Console

• Alternatively, go to Package Center → Drive → Open. This opens the Drive admin console.

• Go to Team Folder.
• Enable each folder that must be available for sync'ing. [1]

Configure the Client

• Drive ShareSync is also part of the package Synology Drive Server, so install that package first.
• Go to Main Menu (top left), and launch Synology Drive ShareSync.

• If not available, enable Drive Server service first (see below)

• Add a new server, or configure the Synced folders.

Start manually the Driver Server / ShareSync service

• Go to Package Center, Installed package.
• Select Synology Drive Server, then select run in the drop button.

Start manually the Driver Server / ShareSync service (with SSH)

• Connect with SSH:

sudo synoservicecfg --start pkgctl-SynologyDrive

Stop manually the Driver Server / ShareSync service

• Go to Package Center, Installed package.
• Select Synology Drive Server, then select stop in the drop button.

Start manually the Driver Server / ShareSync service (with SSH)

• Connect with SSH:

sudo synoservicecfg --stop pkgctl-SynologyDrive

Start/stop at given hour

• Go to Control Panel.
• Select Task Scheduler.
• Add tasks to start and stop the service Synology Drive Server.
• NOTE: file deletion are not detected when Drive ShareSync is not running. As a result, deleted files will be restored.

Install borgbackup server

Reference:

• https://roll.urown.net/NAS/borg-backup-server.html

• Add https://packages.synocommunity.com/ as Package Source.
• Install Borg from the community package list.
• Create a new user borg, and add it to group administrator (to enable ssh access).

sudo su -
cd ~borg
mkdir -p .ssh
touch .ssh/authorized_keys
chown -R borg:users .ssh
chmod 0700 .ssh
chmod 0600 .ssh/*

• Create a password-less ssh key for that user

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f id_ed25519_borgbackup

• Login into synology as admin, then create the restricted .ssh/authorized_keys

command="/usr/local/bin/borg serve --restrict-to-path /volume1/BorgBackup/" ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3...

Troubleshoot

CloudStation Sync not syncing

Solution:

• Restart the CloudStation server.

Permission settings greyed out for 'photo' share

Solution:

• Manage user / group privilege in the Photo Station app.

Can't access using ssh

To access with ssh, the user must be added to the administrator group.[2]