Say you have a whole bunch of copies of the exact same files all over the place on your Synology NAS disks – how can you find them all and delete them? After copying and organizing my files a bit, I found out that I had multiple copies of the same files, pictures, videos etc… … Read more about How to Find Duplicate Files on Synology NAS?
Synology NAS users have been the target of ongoing brute-force attack attempts, with IPs from all over the world trying to connect to people’s Synology devices. These IPs are a part of a botnet, a network of bots that is specifically targeting the NAS devices via hacked devices such as computers with security vulnerabilities. A … Read more about Synology: How To Prevent Brute-Force Attacks
As trivial as it may seem, some people are not aware of the fact that they can archive all the logs of their NAS in a specific folder, compress them, decide how many GB of logs to archive, and review them when they need them with the utmost attention. In today’s small guide I will … Read more about Synology: How to Archive NAS Logs
Many docker images and containers that you install on your Synology NAS following various guides on the web leave traces that should be deleted so that future installations may work flawlessly. Here on mariushosting you can find a varied list of docker images to install on your NAS, but, if you ever decide to uninstall … Read more about Synology: How to Clean Docker
In this step by step guide I will teach you how to set up a cron job for Nextcloud on your Synology NAS device. What is a cron job? The cron command-line utility, also known as cron job, is a job scheduler on Unix-like operating systems. Users who set up and maintain software environments use … Read more about Synology: Make Cron Job Work With Nextcloud
Do you remember my article where I explained how to find your NAS user ID (PUID) and group ID (PGID)? In said article, you needed to use some terminal commands to find these values. Many of you have asked me if there is a method to find these values without having to use the terminal. … Read more about Synology: Find UID (userID) and GID (groupID) in 5 Seconds