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Synology NAS with an affordable Air-Gapped Backup solution to protect against ransomware

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I have been using Synolgoy Nas’es for several years now. Currently, there are two in the home lab a DS1621+ and a DS923+. Both are used for various tasks, like regular file shares, iSCSI for VMware, Podman, and so on. In this post I’m focusing on the DS923+ and how to back up data to an external backup that is only on when needed.

Thanks again to Synology, who have provided me with both systems!

The idea is simple; if the system gets affected, an untouched backup medium is needed to restore the data. If it is live replicated, there is a chance the secondary system will get infected as well. See the 3-2-1 rule.

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Object First (OOTBI) and Veeam with Object Storage – Worth it?

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A little while back I was honored to be part of the first, inaugural class by Object First, called Aces. I first learned a about Object First during a VeeamON conference and was intrigued by the concept of having object storage in the Datacenter vs cloud.

Geoff from Object First reached out to me and offered to “test-drive” a box in my home-lab. Of course I wouldn’t say no , I mean who would? So this will be the first of a blog series talking Object First and Veeam. Many thanks again for letting me “play” with the box.

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Immutable Snapshots not being created by scheduler on Synology

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This is a quick follow up post on my previous post about Synolgoy LUN Snapshots and immutability which can be found here.

After having it run for a while, I noticed the snapshots created on a schedule didn’t have the immutable flag set, despite it being configured under settings.

I couldn’t figure out why it was not working, so I opened a case with Synology. Support got back to me very quickly and I set up a remote session.

As it turns out, I’m hitting a known issue with DSM. The solution is simple; install snapshot replication services (you don’t need to configure it) and go back into settings for your schedule and uncheck, save, recheck immutable snapshots. Last step is important.

After this, all my scheduled snapshots had the immutability flag set. Quick fix, Synology is working on correcting it in a future release. I ran into this issue on DSM 7.2.1-69057 Update 3 as of 12-18-2023. Shout out again to Synology support for the quick turn around!

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Synology DS923+ NAS Review, Part II – LUNs and Snapshots

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Earlier this year Synology sent me a DS923+ to review and test. Thanks again to Synology for making this possible, it is much appreciated. In part one of this series, I did the initially unpacking, set up, and getting the NAS ready. You can read part one here.

In this post I will focus on setting up LUNs, connecting it to my existing VMware Hosts and testing the snapshot function of the LUNs. Let’s get started…

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Synology DS923+ NAS Review, Part I

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I’ve been working with a Synology DS1621+ for a some time now (Thanks to Synology for providing it), and had a great experience with it. At this point it is running an integral part of my Homelab as well as servicing all the different devices floating around at home. After a recent conversation with Nick Kozup from Synology, a different model was sent to me for reviewing.

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Synology D1621+ Network Attached Storage Review Part I

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A while back I had a conversation with Synology and learned about their review program. After some discussion about different models for some testing scenarios I plan on doing, I received a very nice Synology DS1621+ well packaged. Currently disks are hard to come by, but I also received 4x Seagate IronWolf 4TB ST400NV008.

This blog series will go through some of the features and use case scenarios I’m planning on doing. This first part will focus on unpacking and getting the basic setup down.

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