Questions tagged [network-attached-storage]
NAS stands for Network Attached Storage, a mechanism for providing file-level access to storage across a network.
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Truenas Scale: Add a second disk to the boot disk
About a year ago I created a TrueNAS Scale instance (TrueNAS-SCALE-23.10.2) but only with 1 SSD for the boot disk. Is it possible to add a second SSD to the boot in RAID?
What would be the best way to ...
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How can I recover a RAID10 array using mdadm (on Synology NAS) after power loss/surge when disks have read errors and are lacking raid superblock?
I had a power loss/surge event and it's left the RAID10 on my Synology diskstation in an unusable state. The array is 8x 6TB disks in RAID10. I have SSH access to the NAS and have performed some basic ...
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Reimport a ZFS pool that has not correctly been exported
I recently bought a QNap NAS and decided to try out a few NAS OS, amongst which TrueNAS. After creating a ZFS pool on TrueNAS and transfering a few files, I got disatisfied with TrueNAS and decided to ...
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Which directive to change in OpenVPN server config?
Setup: OpenVPN Server running on my Synology DS118 NAS. Default server config and key files. Nothing changed in the server-side config files.
Clients all running on Windows 11 Pro. This is a workgroup,...
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OpenVPN - Can I set up route metrics in the CLIENT config files?
Can I set them up in the client config files, or must they be on the server config file?
If so, would the below client config file work?
dev tun
tls-client
remote your-vpn-server.example.com 1194
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How to get IP details of passive cluster?
I have Sun Oracle ZFS storage ZS7-2 model. It is a 2 node cluster active and passive.
Unfortunately I have only active node IP details to login.
Can anyone help me on how to get passive node IP ...
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How to Mount a NAS to Linux Server WITHOUT the Server considering the Mount as part of its storage? (Disk Space low even when Server still has plenty) [closed]
I have an Ubuntu Server with 128GB, 28GB is free.
I mounted a Synology NAS to the Server at the folder /home/NAS/media using fstab.
192.168.0.88:/volume1/Stash /home/NAS/media nfs auto,defaults,nofail ...
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mdadm - reshape operation stuck after system rebooted while the operation was ongoing
I am trying to bring a volume online on an Asustor AS6212RD. The NAS has been irresponsive for about a month (details below), and data on the volume cannot be accessed. I can see the folder structure ...
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Can I realistically use a distributed filesystem instead of a NAS, for capacity and fault-tolerance?
I'm not a professional administrator, but find myself as the most-IT-knowledgeable person advising a certain small NGO on these matters. This NGO basically just has a WiFi router + switch, some PCs ...
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Wrong permissions on newly created file in directory NFS mounted from a Thecus NAS
The NFS client is a Raspberry Pi, running Debian 12 (Pi OS), named "raspberrypi".
The NFS server is a Thecus N5810, named "storage2".
The /home directory is mounted like this:
user@...
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One bay of RaidSonic Icy Box suddenly stopped working, other 3 remain functional, how to diagnose root cause?
I have a RaidSonic Icy Box IB-3740-C31, USB-C 3.1. It's served me well for the last few years and paired with an N100 16GB mini pc it acts as my personal home server and NAS storage. Suddenly, one ...
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How is important cache for a backup NAS storage?
I'm working on a new nas to store veeam backups of some VMs.
I will use some magnetic disks and my doubt is about optional ssd cache disks.
I was wondering if it is important the cache layer, ...
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Installing and configuring ZeroTier application in TrueNAS
How to properly set up ZeroTier in the TrueNAS Scale server to access the NAS server through the ZT network? I have installed ZT and confirmed that it is connected through the pod shell. However, I am ...
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Windows Server 2022 NAS/SAN
I have a Windows Server 2022 server intended to be used as storage server.
In the server are two LSI 1068 HBA cards. First plan was MPIO, but is not working.
The two LSI controllers have two SAS ...
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How can I query the version number of a remote rsync server (daemon)?
How can I query the version number of a remote rsync server (or daemon)?
I can find out the version number of my local rsync client using --version:
% rsync --version
rsync version 3.2.7 protocol ...
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bcachefs - how to setup a ssd only volume
I stumbled across bcachefs a few days ago.
After some research, I still have a few questions.
As I understand it, only the foreground_target must be defined.
Does it make sense to set up a ...
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btrfs mount error "can't read superblock"
I have a synology nas drive in raid6 that had a drive failed. I replaced the drive and had two other drives kicked off the raid after a power failure crashing the storage pool. I was able to move all ...
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Do SSD still need supercapacitor today ? (NAS : Linux + MDADM + EXT4)
I'm planning to build a SSD based NAS, with Linux / mdadm / EXT4 (so, no ZFS or Btrfs).
What happens in case of a sudden power loss ? There are a lot of posts out there stating that we should buy SSDs ...
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Partition unreachable in a HDD which was part of a RAID 1 cluster
I am out of options here because of my lack of knowledge and I seriously need a hand in order to get my data back. Yes, I did the mistake of trusting RAID system too much...
Here is what happened: One ...
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Unable to connect via SSH or access NFS exports
This one has me puzzled, I've got a home server (Debian Bookworm) and several Raspberry Pi machines, also all running Raspbian Bookworm. Just for illustrative purposes
ServerA Debian Bookworm
PI1, ...
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How to delete files automatically from a NAS
There is a CP Plus NVR at my organisation which records data from the cameras and stores them in a dedicated QSAN XCubeNAS Server.
Our NAS has limited storage, is there a way to automatically delete ...
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How to "mount" a Synology NAS on a Linux Ubuntu server like it is a local disk
I would like to mount a Synology NAS on a Ubuntu server to make appear this space like it would be a local volume for the system, in particular supporting the server users ownership and permissions.
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TrueNas Encryption method changed - Is the data safe?
just a quick question of understanding. I have a TrueNas Scale server and I just changed the Encryption method from key to passphrase. Now I wonder if I need to rewrite the whole dataset for this to ...
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Can not read from Synology NAS from Windows OS, but Linux access works fine
So as mentioned in the title: we have a Windows machine here needing access to a samba share on a Synology NAS. This machine can not access it and Windows responds with "wrong username/password&...
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Would this be strong enough or just overkill? [duplicate]
I'm actually interested in building a web/mail server. I'll have database with thousands of users and multiple websites hosted on a LEMP Stack Server.
Hopefully I'll eventually have thousands of ...
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No Write Access to WD My Cloud NAS on Ubuntu Linux
I recently purchased a new WD My Cloud and was able to use the FTP app to transfer files from an old machine that was running OMV to the new NAS. I cannot seem to mount the NAS to my Ubuntu laptop ...
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Recover Raid in Synology DSM 7
After a DSM update, an issue with Synology branded cache drives caused my pool to crash and become unavailable. The 3 dots on the bottom only had the option to remove the pool, no option to enable ...
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Unable to connect to local Fedora Samba share. What am I doing wrong?
New to networking. Created a samba share in Fedora Server. This samba share is supposed to connect to a raid0 pool (2x4TB WD Red) that I created. The mount point of the raid0 pool is /raid0pool.
The ...
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Windows storage server 2019 exported NFS: chown permission denied
I've not been a windows server guy for a long time, so I'm not super familiar with the newer MS server OSes... but I'm trying to link up my linux host to a NAS at a customer site. Their NAS is ...
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Steps to succesfully persistent iSCSI LUN using Open-iSCSI on Ubuntu Server?
Using Ubuntu Linux Server 22.04 minimal edition without GUI, I need some help in mounting the iSCSI LUN using Open-iSCSI so it is mapped to /dev/sdb with the below command:
Could you please let me ...
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NFSv4.1 mount is extremly slow until remount
I have an issue that I don't know how to debug. I hope you can help me further with this.
In my group, I administer a Linux compute cluster that consists of multiple compute machines and a Synology ...
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Can you use a SAS fan-out cable to connect more drives?
I bought a Broadcom 9400-16e HBA that has four external ports. I was hoping that by using four mini-SAS cables that fan-out to two, I could double the number of connected drives from 16 to 32. However,...
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Difference between SMB and NAS
I am getting aboard my family businesses and every thing is made with Microsoft. I see that 90% of the processes can be done with free software, and in this case, file sharing. My father always ...
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Which RAID is best for private use of NAS [closed]
I want to buy the DS 920+ with (4x)6TB Seagate IronWolf NAS HDD.
I definitely want some reliability. I obviously don't want to lose any data which is stored on the NAS.
Which RAID would be the best?
I ...
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Cannot get over 100k iops from storage on 10g network on 4k random blocks
My setup description:
storage system for vm storage: supermicro server, 1-socket Xeon E5-2620 v4, 82599ES-intel-based RA-Link 10GE network adapter, 8x pci-e 2.0, plugged in 8x pci-e 3.0 slot, debian ...
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SAN Solution for diverse VM Servers
I recently got my fingers into Server Administration. I am currently the only person administering an air gapped network with 8 sites. Most things are dated and old but I get the money to renew things....
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Why is the Synology NAS not starting the VPN connection automatically
Our remote Synology NAS box is configured to connect to the local NAS box via VPN.
Reconnect when the VPN connection is lost is ticked in the Control Panel -> Network->Network Interface section.
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Unable to mount SMB shared : mount error(95): Operation not supported
I have created a shared folder in QNAP TS-433. I can mount the SMB share on a Windows client. I am unable to mount the SMB share on Linux (Centos 6.8).
mount -t cifs -o ver=3.0,user=test //172.17.134....
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Encryption at rest for VM storage in a hypervisor done properly/elegantly
Given a very simple infrastructure - a single machine running a hypervisor(Proxmox if it matters), I want to achieve a good data protection against the hardware being stolen.
Let's say there are ...
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NAS de-duplication best practices - how do hardlinks handle compression?
I just joined a SMB as their first full-time tech guy, and the company's backup architecture is a mess. Leaving aside all other issues (of which there are many), the office has multiple different NAS ...
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Are Western Digital SSDs compatible with QNAP TS-469U-RP NAS?
I just purchased a QNAP TS-469U-RP NAS. It is my understanding that just about any SSD will be compatible to work in a NAS, as long as the make and model of all four drives are identical. That being ...
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Is it possible to create a backup RAID 5 on a nas by replacing 1 drive at a time? [closed]
During a recent office relocation my QNAP TS-509 (RAID 5 with 4 2tb WD Red) wouldn't boot properly and fooling around trying to correct that I lost the volume. As I was expanding my very limited ...
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How to reset the resolv.conf file on a Synology Diskstation NAS?
Quick question from a newbie: Is there a way to simply reset the resolv.conf file? According to Synology support, my resolv.conf shows some strange DNS servers, which I have never specified. How can I ...
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Shared network attached storage - trunked with multiple vlans?
I am introducing an NFS server which I would like to share with KVM guests across different VLANS. I am trying to find a solution which would strike a good balance between function, serviceability, ...
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Issues during Synology NAS LUN backup
I'm having an issue with my Synology DS210j, DSM 4.2-3211 version.
NAS LUN backup fail issues began occurring for some time, with different backup tasks failing.
Issue reported in logs for this job is:...
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Best way to store database file on a NAS and run the server on a computer
I have a txt file more than 250go
I want to create a database with that and access it by a python program that I'll be coding.
I have a NAS server on my local network ( 1gbit network )
And I would ...
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What is this "phantom" group?
My LXC container mounts a NAS on /share.
$ ls -lha /
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drwxrws--- 8 nobody 4000 153 Mar 21 16:22 share
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Since I cannot login as nobody user, I tried to make myself a member of the 4000 ...
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NAS solution for a synced two geo-location Active - Active
We are looking for an open source solution to NAS.
We are going to use it on two different server farms with two different geo-location (expected capacity is 10TB).
It should have the following ...
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Transferring data between a QNAP and Synology NAS over distance
I have two NAS devices, one from Qnap, one from Synology, each in a different city and need to transfer tens of GB between them. The Synology is accessible through QuickConnect and the Qnap through ...
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Determining Required LUN Level Uniqueness
I have primarily used NFS for most of my storage needs but I find my self setting up some iSCSI targets today and had what is likely a super basic question.
When I create an export for an iSCSI target,...
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