Photos added a new directory "PhotoLibrary" and moved my "Moments" folder into the "Photos" directory in my Home folder.

Photos works great and all my photos/videos are there, but the folder structure is a bit of a mess now.

If I were to move things from the Moments folder to the PhotoLibrary, does it break albums, subject detection, shared photos, face ID, etc., or does it neatly link things up?

UPDATE: I can now confirm that moving stuff doesn't break anything. 👌

Hi all,

I recent times my ds918 is marking a hdd as critical because it went to a full identification cycle. It only failed once and smart attributes, including the long ones, are always showing a healthy hdd.

The point is that synology is re issuing the alert every day and I cannot manually mark it as no problematic.

So, how seriously should I take this warning and if there is any way to reset this status once for all????

Regards

So I was happily using an SSD nvme as volume storage for all of my docker containers and almost forgot that it was officially unsupported after so long with that setup.

Today though, I updated DSM and it's not showing the SSD drive as unsupported, and prompted me to do an online repair, which failed. (Yes, I know, I should have read the change log in more detail).

No Biggie, everythings backed up. But is there a way to force it to work? Or should I try rolling back the update? It was nice having all of the docker stuff on the SSD. And I have zero use for caching, so will end up with a useless nvme on my hands if it's not going to work, which is kind of annoying.

I think it's getting time to start research to replace my aging Synology, what's good in the marketplace right now?

I've a DS 1513+ which has served us well but given the age of the disks I'm thinking build a replacement and mirror it, then archive the old HDDs as a backup.

We also have a Terramaster unit that's pure junk, but that's used for non-critical archival data. Only Unraid saves it from the recycler.

DS1522+ or is the 16- or 18-series worth the extra? Or is there something better for the money? The old 15-series has been rock solid, are the modern units as good?

I waited years for this feature to be included in Photos. While the DSM 7.x update and migration to Photos went very smoothly, when I look at the subject album in Photos, it's showing a very small list vs what I know it's detected.

For example, the album does not have a subject for "bird", yet I can search for "bird" and it will show me birds.

Is there any way to see a list of what subjects it can detect, or a way to force showing ALL of the detected subjects in this subjects album?

Hi everyone! I have a unique issue and wondering if the community can give me some input.

I have 8 family members that I'm supporting with their photo and file management, spanning across multiple countries.

My current setup: Server 1: Serving 4 users Location: Taiwan Backup Server1: Taiwan(different location) C2 backup with Backblaze

Server2: Serving 4 users Location: Seattle Backup Server2: Seattle(same location) C2 backup with Backblaze

They are all on the same network(Tailscale), but 2 separate systems. But this is the only way I can get low latency for the local users.

My question to this community is if there is a way to run a single cluster and have whatever server is the closest to them at the time. So I only need to maintain 1 single server network?

Basically I'm running 4 Synology boxes. I want to minimize things a bit.

Thank you!

When setting up a DS923+, I added a reservation for IP address to my router. So I was wondering if there is a way to get DSM to pick up the new (and henceforth static) IP address quicker than waiting for the current one to expire (which would take about 22 more hours). On Windows/Mac there's an option to renew/refresh DHCP in network settings. Is there an equivalent thing I can do on the NAS? If not, I guess I can just wait around for it to get refreshed.

Have someone already tried this?

With Surveillance Station, you can set up push notifications to send an email, text, or notification on mobile via DS Cam app.

I get the email service - you're authenticating yourself as the email account holder and sending an email. Do images transmit to Synology controlled servers before getting to your email inbox?

With push notifications to DS Cam, the same question. Are any images transmitted to any other servers before arriving on my phone?

These may be straightforward - but I was burned on the Eufy scandal and don't want a similar situation here.

I’ve got 6 1TB crucial BX500 SSDs. When installing it says they are unsupported but I just continued on anyway. I’m assuming everything should run fine anyway, and just want to make sure. Will there be any unforeseen consequences?

When Synology migrated from Moments to Photos, they dropped the image recognition. I’m specifically calling out the feature that detected cats, dogs, food, beach, whatever.

Anyone have a recommendation on what I might use (in Docker maybe) to fill the need?

I do not want to migrate away from Synology Photos, just supplement it.

Not sure if the community has already talked about this. Just came across the article mentioning it. Might cost around the same as the DS220+ does now?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1098006

I built a simple node js/docker app that uses the unofficial api to fetch photos in a selected timeframe, then send an email with working web links to those photos.

For example, you'll get a daily/weekly/or monthly email with links to any photo in the past within that given day/week/month.

I've only tested it on my NAS (using quickconnect), so I'd love any feedback/suggestions.

The memories feature was the only thing I missed after switching from google photos, so I figured this would be an easy to implement solution.

The docker image is in the docker hub registry, so it's pretty easy to get up running by hosting it on your NAS. You'll just need to add the environment variables. Instructions are in the github readme.

I started building it just as a solution for myself, but figured others might find it useful. Let me know if there are any mistakes or features you'd like to see added! Feel free to open a github issue and make a PR.

​

Github: https://github.com/treyg/synology-photos-memories

Dockerhub: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/treygordon/synology-photos-memories/general

I would like to deploy my own Omnivore instance on my NAS via Docker. In the repo, there actually is a Docker compose file, but unfortunately it's too complex for my current docker skills and I can't get it to run. :-( Does anybody happen to have achieved this and is willing to share their docker-compose.yml? I'd be super grateful.

(PS. I've just found out that there's also a Dockerfile and a script specifically for self-hosting; I haven't tried this option yet.)

This morning I updated my DS1621+ from DSM 7.1.1-42962 U6 to DSM 7.2-64570 U1. After the update I am no longer able to access shared folders from my Ubuntu machine. All errors in terminal and Portainer indicate "access denied", though no passwords have changed, and I am still able to access the shared folders from Windows. I am mounting shared folders with SMB but also tried NFS when SMB stopped working, as that appears to potentially be easier to manage (no usernames/passwords?).

Any help or direction to a fix is greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Realized I had a typo in my mount command for mounting an NFS share - I was using ip.address:/shared_folder instead of ip.addres:/volume_name/shared_folder. Fixed that and now have no problems using NFS to mount the shared folders to the same mount point as before, so for me that's a suitable workaround and presumably a better solution than SMB anyway, since both client and server are Linux OSes anyway.

Edit: aaaand it's gone. Rest in peace, little hard drive.

Every once in a while, my DS720+ warns me that there's been a "checksum mismatch on file [ ]", as seen in the attached screenshot. What the fuck is that supposed to mean, what do I do with this? Why is there no file name?

Some context: One of my drives seems to be failing, maybe, possibly, and I'd been getting similar checksum mismatch warnings but they'd at least include a path and filename (as far as I can tell they were all temp files). SMART data tells me there are bad clusters, but different diagnostic tools have given me different results (the Seagate tool tells me the drive is perfectly healthy). A few days ago, I removed the drive and connected it to my PC, ran chkdsk on it, no issues. I put the drive back and put some data on it that I don't mind terribly losing to see what it's doing now. Since then, the warnings have been less frequent but they aren't giving me a file name anymore.

So I suspect these warnings are about that drive but now I'm out of ideas. I'm also fairly new at this stuff, bare with me. Anyone got any clues for me, please and thank you?

As titled. I receive these reports from other servers like Google / Yahoo / Outlook.com, but I want to 'play nice' in the world of email exchange and do my part in generating these reports for other e-mail servers as necessary.

I doubt Synology Mail Server generates these reports by default. So is there any way to set up DMARC RUA/RUF report generation?

After Amazon recently TOSd my photo backups with no explanation I began looking into solutions where Ai recognition could be used completely offline.

I found this app called Exire Foto which does a pretty good job at tagging and an excellent job at deduping. I work in volume photography and it’s able to quickly and accurately dedupe a huge amount of files.

I’m not a shill, so I will admit that there are limits and the software doesn’t nail the tags every time. On the upside the tags are written to directly to the files so wherever they end up that data is persevered.

I’m unsure if I will continue to use this after Synology adds object recognition back to the Photos app. If Synology doesn’t write their image tags to the files then Excire may be a better solution depending on your use case.

Hope this is useful to someone out there.

Over at mariushosting, Marius posted a tutorial on how to get Lemmy running on your Synology NAS. So if anybody is eager to giveit a try, there you go. :-)

PS: Please consider donating something, anything to the guy - he really keeps delivering and has done a lot for Synology users, helping everyone get started with all things Docker!

Hello, I currently use Active Backup for Business on my NAS to backup my Linux servers. However I saw that you can also backup MacOS computers. I own a MacBook and an iMac. However the iMac is mostly locked but turned on.

Do Macs have to be actively used while backing up to your NAS or does this work even when the screen is locked and the screen of the iMac is black?

As far as I can tell there are only folders included in reports created with Storage Analyuer. Is there a way to get a report that includes files as well? Or is there another tool for that?

Inclusion of BTRFS makes this an excellent entry level data backup solution.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/679531

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/679471

Not sure the best place to ask this.

I have a DS420J 4 bay NAS, primarily used for my Plex server and data backups (among a few other things). I currently have 8x6x6 TB Iron Wolf NAS drives in a single volume with SRH and an extra 1 TB SSD JBOD. I have my Plex app and metadata stored on the SSD due to the increased performance I have seen vs. having it installed on the large pool (7200 RPM cap). I am sitting at about 85% used storage of my available 10.8 TB on the primary volume. As such, I am pre-planning my next storage upgrade and am curious about my options while staying with the current hardware. The future plan will be a NAS upgrade, but this little beast has been chugging along so perfectly I want to push it as far as I can.

If I was to remove the 1 TB drive and replace it with another 8 TB Iron Wolf, I would jump to 20 TB available storage. https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator?hdds=6%20TB%7C6%20TB%7C8%20TB%7C8%20TB This increase would last me for quite some time ahead of a full NAS upgrade with more bays. In order to do this, I would obviously need to remove the 1 TB SSD to be replaced by the new drive. I have na external enclosure for this drive that can connect over USB to the NAS.

My question: I am finding somewhat conflicting information on how external drives are intended to be used/what their capabilities are when connected to the USB 3.2 port. It seems the intended functionality for backups (which makes sense). Am I able to utilize a USB connected drive and have it function in a similar manner to it being internal? Are you able to install apps from the Package Center to an external drive? Create volumes? I assume there will be some performance degradation due to the translation from SATA to USB, then back to SATA, but I anticipate the SSD will still perform better than adding the app back to the main pool. I just don’t know if I am potentially missing something with my evaluation. Those that have more experience with USB connected drive with their NAS, I would love to hear your experience. Thanks!

I've held off from updating to DSM 7.x because Synology Photos removed object recognition, a feature I use heavily in Momemts.

They announced recently that this feature will be coming back!

Photography enthusiasts and professionals were not forgotten at the exhibit, with Synology announcing the return of a user-favorite functionality — object recognition in its photo manager. Previously featured in Synology Moments, object recognition will soon be available to millions of Synology Photos users, giving photographers an essential tool to manage and sort their portfolios offline.

I am a bit at a loss what to do next.

2 days ago I got some notifications that Synology could not reach my box. When home I began checking and in fact most things could not find the box. (though fascinatingly SMB could access the box - Lightroom was happily seeing its files on the NAS).

Then I used Synology assistant and found the box (with a new ip ..ugh). But even when I connected the box is not connecting to the internet. I can access it via WIFI on my LAN .. I see the router sees the box, but I cannot connect to the internet.

(I attempted restoring network settings from backup, I rebooted router and box .. no change)

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Is there any good guide how to re-set and set up network settings and external access ?

If I need to restore to factory settings what is the best way to get back up ad running after? and not lose my data?