After 4 years of using a Synology NAS I decided I had to bite the bullet and make the move.
The reason is the same one that made me leave from Qnap 4 years ago. The nonexistence of Linux clients, especially for my distro (Fedora). There were a few before, but Synology flushed them one after the other.
So, no more Notes client for linux, no more Cloudstation for backing up my Linux PC etc.
Off course there are many ways to achieve the same goal, but it is supposed Synology is a turnkey solution. If you must use alternative ways to accomplish things, then the convenience goes away or things may become impossible.
For example:
After their upgrade on a service, the legacy client to back up my Linux PC stopped working. I tried many solutions without success. Especially I spent many hours searching on the internet how to make SSH rsync to work (with the Back in Time program) without finding a solution. The same one was successful in a few minutes on a test TrueNAS I had set on an old PC.
Having said that, Synology is fine for novices, are small and relatively cheap. You can do a lot of different things quite easily if there are the clients, or the process has been foreseen in their operating system.
The migration will start in a few days and I’d like to share my experience and my setup for anyone interested.
I have a very limited experience with TrueNAS. The last year I spent a few hours every other weekend, using FreeNAS on a couple of old PCs I had in hand.
Any comments are welcome.
The reason is the same one that made me leave from Qnap 4 years ago. The nonexistence of Linux clients, especially for my distro (Fedora). There were a few before, but Synology flushed them one after the other.
So, no more Notes client for linux, no more Cloudstation for backing up my Linux PC etc.
Off course there are many ways to achieve the same goal, but it is supposed Synology is a turnkey solution. If you must use alternative ways to accomplish things, then the convenience goes away or things may become impossible.
For example:
After their upgrade on a service, the legacy client to back up my Linux PC stopped working. I tried many solutions without success. Especially I spent many hours searching on the internet how to make SSH rsync to work (with the Back in Time program) without finding a solution. The same one was successful in a few minutes on a test TrueNAS I had set on an old PC.
Having said that, Synology is fine for novices, are small and relatively cheap. You can do a lot of different things quite easily if there are the clients, or the process has been foreseen in their operating system.
The migration will start in a few days and I’d like to share my experience and my setup for anyone interested.
I have a very limited experience with TrueNAS. The last year I spent a few hours every other weekend, using FreeNAS on a couple of old PCs I had in hand.
Any comments are welcome.