The goblin
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Hi
After months of shall I shan't I, I have finally bought a NAS. A Synology DS415+ with four 3TB WD Red drives.
On advice I have done the RAID 10 thingy and it took nearly a day doing stuff
Now, as you can tell by my terminology I am not at all clued up on how these things run! All I know is I want to copy everything from my PC onto it. I want to access music and videos from it. More importantly I want to put all my photos on there. I have installed the photo station, video and iTunes server so hopefully my hubby and I can eventually have all our videos/ music accessible from the one place. The photo station I am thinking is best for putting all our favourite photos rather than my full catalogue!
But how is the best way to put my photo catalogue on it? As a backup from my PC. And is there a way that after I've added/ deleted/ edited photos on my PC that I can then sync the files?
I am fully aware that this is not a trustworthy backup system and if my house should burn down then I've lost the lot, but I would just like to get stuff on it, then I will buy another HDD to backup to and store away from the home.
Currently I back up my PC to my 2TB external HDD using Synctoy. Would I still need something like Synctoy with this NAS?
Any advice, tips, guidance very much appreciated as the Synology forum wasn't much help! I have a nerd friend that has helped fix my PC recently who could probably do it, but I really need to understand this beast myself.
Many thanks in advance.
After months of shall I shan't I, I have finally bought a NAS. A Synology DS415+ with four 3TB WD Red drives.
On advice I have done the RAID 10 thingy and it took nearly a day doing stuff
Now, as you can tell by my terminology I am not at all clued up on how these things run! All I know is I want to copy everything from my PC onto it. I want to access music and videos from it. More importantly I want to put all my photos on there. I have installed the photo station, video and iTunes server so hopefully my hubby and I can eventually have all our videos/ music accessible from the one place. The photo station I am thinking is best for putting all our favourite photos rather than my full catalogue!
But how is the best way to put my photo catalogue on it? As a backup from my PC. And is there a way that after I've added/ deleted/ edited photos on my PC that I can then sync the files?
I am fully aware that this is not a trustworthy backup system and if my house should burn down then I've lost the lot, but I would just like to get stuff on it, then I will buy another HDD to backup to and store away from the home.
Currently I back up my PC to my 2TB external HDD using Synctoy. Would I still need something like Synctoy with this NAS?
Any advice, tips, guidance very much appreciated as the Synology forum wasn't much help! I have a nerd friend that has helped fix my PC recently who could probably do it, but I really need to understand this beast myself.
Many thanks in advance.