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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video, I will be walking through how to set up Synology Drive. You can use Synology Drive to set up your Synology NAS as a cloud, similar to Google Drive or Dropbox.
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TOC:
00:00 Introduction
01:27 Installing the packages
03:26 Team folders
08:01 Personal folder
10:19 Synology Office (documents, spreadsheets, slides)
12:31 Sharing document links
13:42 Desktop / mobile interface using QuickConnect
20:05 Backup task
21:53 A note on opening ports for remote access speeds
22:52 Advanced feature options
25:39 Conclusion
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Top video, thanks!
love your vids, recently got a ds1515, as the new models are a bit too expensive for me, and I need more bays. also got an expansion for cheap. 10 bay, whoo !
That DS1515 was actually a pretty solid performance beast!
Nice explanation and reveal.
So sorry I never Subscribed while I used some of you're video to upgrade my knowledge.
Have subscribed now.
Please keep informing me. Love the real and total explanation of the topics u visit/explain
I say it on almost every video I watch of yours. You have the absolute best beard ever! And excellent video content also! 😂😊
Great video! I just got the DS224+ and I am using it for personal use, Plex Home Media, NFS, and also to replace all the cloud services I got spread out across over the years. I have zero experience in any of this and your video was clear and easy to follow. Do you have a video for automatically sync/ backup iPhone?
As usual, great job presenting the information! I am looking at using Synology Drive on a file system that has been running for about 5 years. I'll admit to being a bit of a curmudgeon with a lot of things and I have, for a long time, maintained the opinion that you (or anyone) should just use mapped shares / mapped network drives. This doesn't work for mobile users at all, and DS File (for iOS is a bit clunky). Having had mapped network drives for a long time with my Synology, I have users where their folder structure starts in "/home/" (technically "/homes/user/") rather than "home/drive" (technically "/homes/user/drive". Initially, I thought that I would need to move all of the user content from "/home/" to "home/drive". Synology seems to have figured this out and offer the ability to "Convert" each users "home" folder. Converting is a one way trip, and Synology tells you so. It is not well documented, and a moot point for anyone starting off in a version post Synology Drive 3.1. I would love to see a blurb on the conversion and how users of older systems can deploy Drive!
have it install and now i know all of the feature, thank you. will you able to talk about the trust device on DSM 7 . how to add your home laptop as a trusted device on the account setting? thanks
It really is a good system. Just a few things for feature parity would seal the deal completely for us. I would love the ability to host the Syn. Office/Drive apps on other servers instead of on the NAS itself. Toss them into a container anywhere and point them to the storage. I know they're relatively light, and I'm literally the one person in the multiverse that wants this. :) But we could isolate the storage network better that way. And I really want offline disconnected mode for all the PWAs, similar to Note Station. If you or anyone else smarter than me has done any work in those areas, you are hired.
Hi will, great video. I suggest you to explain that using 6690 port for the synology client, it usually doesn’t connect to the drive when you are on a public WiFi and you must set a vpn. It’s one of the main difference with GDrive or Dropbox
Yes, seems like no one bother with this problem any where on the internet that much. All influencer just using local network and showing how good it is. If you can not use it remotely what's the point.
Excellent video, what is the difference between two-way sync and one-way upload in terms of deleting files from local computer?
Great video, I do have a question, I am missing a lot of thumbnails from Synology Drive indexing, is there a reason for this to happened? How can I get thumbnails generated?
Is there a way that we could change the default cloud storage from Google Drive to Synology Drive? Such as Whatsapp storage and the default photos. what about replacing the icloud?
Is this how I would do it it I want a local folder that syncs between all the systems. I work off my desktop and my laptop. Sometimes my laptop has internet, sometimes it doesn't. I want a folder that is on my laptop that I can work from when I'm offline. When I bring the laptop home, I want the same folder to sync on my synology and my desktop. I also want it to backup to Google drive automatically
Great refresher video! I have a question regarding the Synology Drive Client software ... if the server package is updated, several times it has happened to me where I have to re-download/install the Synology Drive Client for syncing to work again. I'm not sure if this is a problem with my setup or if it is truly an issue with the server/client software works. Is there a way to either push the Synology Drive Client to the client computers or notify the users they need to update their client software?
I am new to nas so i really appreciate all your videos. You are awesome explaining! Thanks so much. If you read this and can answer one question i have i would be grateful. DSM 7.2 comes with disk hibernate on with 20 min. Do you recommend disabling hibernation on disks? If not how much time do you use regularly? Also i will be running a plex server. Thanks in advance!
What you explained, is this the same idea of de beedrive with 4tb? I now have the DS114, is this useble for this? Thanks
Fantastic video. I am considering switching from Google Drive to Synology Drive after watching this.
1. The one feature that I really like about Google Drive is when using the web browser to view my files, I can open Office files in Google Docs or Google Sheets. Does Synology Drive have that kind of capability?
2. A feature I wish Google Drive has: When storing a photo (jpg or png), I would love to be able to get a web URL for that photo. I use a lot of online forums and I can't host my photos there. I have to upload to Flickr and use some web trickery to find the URL for each photo to embed into forums. Can Synology Drive be a solution for this?
3. How does the Android app work for this? If I am on my Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, can I easily save files to the Drive from within other apps? For example, if I have a PDF and I'm in the Acrobat app, can I share that pdf to the NAS Drive from within Acrobat?
can you please show us how to install PACS in Synology system..
Quick question, what do you think about the DS918+?
Great demo, do you know if you can use different office tools, like microsoft office, to work together via synology drive (now or in the future)? Or are there other options?
No options “work together” with synology office. I’ve been using synology office as my primary word processor app for 1.5 years running my own small business. When clients im working with send me a word document I have synology office convert it to a synology document, then I make my additions as needed and export it to a word document to send back to them. So far zero compatibility issues, although it’s not something I have to deal with often.
One question: what about the Synology Photo "photo" home folder? I have both Drive and Photo installed (DSM 7.2) and the home/photo folder shows up in my Synology drive, which bothers me a bit. I don't mind it much but I see it as a waste of resource that both applications index the same folder, and it also questions what happens when you set up a backup task and you tick both Synology Drive and Synology Photo: will it backup the photo folder twice? I'm quite perplexed really, it doesn't feel wrong but it looks messy.
Thanks for the great setup video as always!
10:49 "other than the fact that I can't type it works (great)" 🤣🤣
Hey SpaceRex! Question for you, I noticed after running my NAS for about a week or two that the power brick emits a high-pitch frequency. Is this normal? or should I reach out and try to get a replacement brick? The unit itself works fine, just worried that the cable will cause a failure in the future. Thanks!
Will I have a question. I have been using Synology Drive on my Windows 10 PC for a few years now to back-up to mine DS920+. I have the problem because I have a lot of subfolders that I go over 247 characters. As a result, many files are not backed up (more than 100.000 when I look into the logs). Do you have a suggestion for me which program I should use better for this?
It's a lot of work to rearrange and rename everything. These folders have sometimes been in use for 20-25 years and have been copied from one computer to another.
Would this be a better/faster/more secure solution to using something like Tailscale which also allows you to access a Synology volume remotely?
Not sure if I missed it or just did not get it :-). But how is the user administration controlled? e.g new user. This is for me always the confusion part of Synology.
Hello, is it possible that you can work hybrid? so local on office you work directly on the synology nas share and outsite you work with synology drive? in the same share. is this a normal way to work or do you avoid that?
Do you know how to handle file locks in TeamsFolders? When two people are editing the same file, the last save overwrites the changes from the other user...
What should I do if I don't see the "on demand sync" box to check?
Before I used DS cloud to daily backup all of my devices (new files added..old files kept)
I used that on:
Iphone
MacBook
Android phones
Windows PC
.......
And this worked like a charm...
What would be the best alternative to that in 2024?
So one app which would assure backuping of all my devices in a described way?
Does anyone know how to get video thumbnails in Synology Drive on-demand folders?
Would be good to see the same thing but for TrueNAS Scale and NextCloud, including safe off-local-network access
Are some of these packages (e.g. Synology Drive Sync Share, Sunology Drive Admin Console) only available on DSM 7.2? I have an older DS415+ running 7.1.1-42962 U-date 6, which I believe is the latest available for my unit (not supported in 7.2). Nevermind. I see them in the main menu, so they are there, I just don’t see them in the list of installed packages…
So they are weird, Basically you install drive, and you get 3x packages!
Whether it possible to prevent Syno Drive for indexing all home folder? I have there music and photos managed by audio station and syno photos and don’t want to be indexed. Moreover I don’t want to download these folders locally by syno drive. Is it possible?
I installed the Windows client today and the only options I had were to sync or backup. I was looking for a solution to browse through Synology drives and leave the files there but it was not an option. The mobile app has that. I can just browse through my folders and team folders. Am I overseeing something?
This would be an on demand sync
I some help with Synology Drive, when I share my link to my client, the web interface is not the same as using Synology Drive mobile app, the photo is not in full screen, photos can't swap fingers just not the same with mobile app interface, what can I do for that?
I want to use my synology drive like drop box. I know how to share files but I want to drop videos that people can watch without downloading the file. How am I able to do this?
It didn't really work for my use case.
I have a folder that I created when I was in elementary school; it contains all my digital life, it is my master folder. It is at 300GB and contains 60,000 files. Since I recently bought a NAS (thanks a lot for the help in setting everything up 😀), I had some requirements for this folder:
- I need to always have access to almost all the files, even when offline, so I tried Synology Drive.
- I have some large files, like college lectures, databases, etc., that I don't always need to access and I don't want to fill up space on my laptop. I loved the on-demand sync for this.
However, it kind of got buggy. While checking the logs in DSM, I noticed my user sometimes was deleting random files (that I hadn't even opened the folders they were located in) and other errors that I can't remember now, so I just returned to a previous snapshot (amazing feature!). Since I've had this folder forever, it really needs to be a solid system for me. I need to have confidence that there will be no errors.
Another bug, or lack of feature, that I noticed was when I shared a public link with a password to a normal folder for a friend of mine to put pictures in. I activated the option to allow guests to edit the folder, but neither my friend, nor I, were able to upload files to the folder.
I'm now looking into Nextcloud, although it was much harder to set up 😩. I'm still somewhat hesitant that something will break a year from now and I won't be able, or have the time, to solve it.
I thought this info would be interesting to share. Thank you so much for all the content; it truly allowed me to solve my never-ending problem of quickly pulling up a photo, music, school project anywhere, and having a large storage space for all my family.
I think there is a limitation in Mac about using ICloud protocol that only works with files smaller than 2GB
That is not the case
I'm thinking of taking a job with synology and now after so many of your videos I am convinced I am making the right choice. Thank you so much for these. I'll continue to reference them as well. BUT I am curious if you see this, where would you focus with your deep dive to start? Thanks again.
I wish Synology drive was working on my setup. I left Synology drive sync my pc with my ds923+ and it crashed multiple times. Synology drive is not ready , the endless sync icon for days …. I’m not alone , I saw a lot of threads on Reddit about that too .
Please forgive me, terribly new to NAS/Cloud setups (which is why I'm watching you)! Would this work without an actual Synology NAS? They are prohibitively expensive to me and I'm looking for software to create my own cloud outside of needing specific hardware.
The way he's shown is just for Synology as this is one of their proprietary applications. I agree, Synology devices are expensive and you still have to buy drives which aren't exactly cheap either if you want more than a few terabytes of storage. But for me, I've found half the cost of a Synology is the ability to access all their apps and cloud services that allow things like SynologyDrive and Quick Connect to work. The fact that it's a onetime purchase and you don't have a monthly fee to use those cloud services and apps is one way to look at justifying the cost to yourself if needed 😅 Alternatively you could cost your own cloud services but it's generally more involved than this approach. You could look at OwnCloud or other open-source projects. I think Network Chuck also did a video on setting up your own cloud service you can find on TH-cam. Just my two cents!😄
Look at nextcloud
@@SpaceRexWill Thank you for taking the time to reply. Really appreciate it, and I most certainly will!
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Excellent technology instruction about a complicated subject. Talks a little too fast. Clicks into settings too fast to always follow. Interrupts his teaching thought by digressing to another not closely related item. I am subscribed and watch frequently. Hope not offended by my suggestions.
Don't know much about this but why should you trust sceonology not to have access to your files? I mean they own the software 😂
Sir,
I’ve just one suggestion for you; you should speak slowly, otherwise your explanation seems confused. Just my 2 cents 👍
After everything is setup, the insomnia begins when you are terrified of your making a mistake in some configuration that results in data loss. Unless you do this for a living where you manage the system daily, it's best to put your data in the cloud -- the real cloud. Pay the storage professionals to store and manage your data for you. Then back up this data onto your own NAS from the cloud.
For many of us the entire reason we have a nas is to avoid paying monthly fees for someone else to store our data, as well as privacy concerns of just wanting to keep our own data locally therefore guaranteeing privacy. Synology makes it pretty straightforward and easy to understand, especially with spacerex’s excellent videos detailing the process. If you’re that concerned about not getting the settings right, I would lean toward paying a one time fee to have a professional, like spacerex, to set it up for you. Then you can rest easy knowing everything is going to work correctly.
makes no sense basically. It's really not that hard to hist you own data.
Backup you cloud with a 2nd remote NAS or on a cloud and you will be fine.
Or trust the array
What a great comment.
Did you pay a professional to write it?