Synology

Port Forwarding with SD-Branch

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Port Forwarding with SD-Branch - Add Policy to the WAN Port

Reading Time: 6 minutes After some time of absence, I’m back now, with a new lab in a new home. So I can build new cool stuff to test different and new setups. One part of the new LAB is SD-Branch and as I use my Synology Diskstation to backup this blog I need to create a rule to … Read more

Backup ESXi Server – Lab System

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Reading Time: 7 minutes My lab environment is more and more important for some of my daily tasks. But I do not care about the system itself. The only requirement is that it has to run. but as it get’s more and more important I started thinking about a backup. ESXi has no built-in function for this and external … Read more

HowTo: Use Reverse SSH Tunnel for Rsync Backup on a Synology DS

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Reading Time: 4 minutes This post will describe, how to use a reverse ssh tunnel to backup an external device, like a server to your Synology DS via rsync. I have to use the reverse SSH tunnel function, as my DS is behind my firewall at home and my server (which should use the DS for backup) is in … Read more

HowTo: Enable SSH and Rsync on Synology DS

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Reading Time: 2 minutes This post will describe how to enable SSH and rsync on a Synology DS. This will allow you to use your DS as a backup server. For this post, I use the Synology DS412+ with the latest version of DSM 5.1-5004. Enable SSH and Rsync Before I start, I would like to explain the environment, in … Read more