The Synology Show - Backups and Home Server
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Wes Bos
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🗓️ 5 February 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about running backups and a home server — Synology setups, apps, and more!
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Show Notes
2:03 - What is it?
- A little headless computer
5:07 - Drives
- WD Red or Seagate Ironwolf — They are loud, you can put SSDs in them, but it’s $$
6:25 - RAID
11:17 - Power
- Backup
- Time Machine over the network
- You can upgrade the memory
- SSDs
22:40 - Backing up your Backups
- Mirror folders to Backblaze B2
- Slow, but worth it
30:53 - Apps
- Plex + Emby
- Storage Analyzer
- Docker - anything really
- Node js ;)
- Security cameras
- Pi-hole or custom DNS server
- Moments
- Drive
Links
- Screenflow
- Synology
- DS918+
- DS219+
- WD Red Drives
- Seagate Iron Wolf
- Govee Thermometer
- Now
- Squizzy
- Backblaze B2
- Plex
- Emby
- Storage Analyzer
- DaisyDisk
- Docker
- Node.js
- Raspberry Pi
- Dokku
- Synology vs Blue Iris
- Moments app
- Pi-hole
- Discourse
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. |
| 0:06.0 | Strap yourself in and get ready. |
| 0:08.0 | Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to Syntax, this is the podcast with the tastiest treats on running backups and a home server. |
| 0:17.5 | Today we're going to be talking about specifically Scott and I both use a synology or however there's lots of different things that will do what we're talking about today. |
| 0:25.8 | So basically this big box that you put in your office or your home somewhere and it will run backups for you as well as you can run apps on it that are it's pretty cool |
| 0:35.6 | like some some maps for home server use which is pretty nifty with me as always is |
| 0:41.4 | Mr Scott Tolinsky how you doing today Scott? Hey, I'm doing good I'm just I'm gonna be in the editing booth all day |
| 0:47.5 | editing the next level up tutorial series I did it on screen flow this time so things are a little different for me the editing |
| 0:54.3 | process I'm actually doing myself this time and it is feeling a little bit |
| 0:58.6 | occasionally difficult but yeah yeah it's it's feeling a little difficult screen flow is definitely a learning curve for me so you know I'm getting used to it and I feel good about the the content though that's the good part is that that's good |
| 1:10.5 | My performance so to say or the recordings all went really super well. So like I'm not having to do a ton of editing but when I am I'm like oh what's that keyboard shortcut again? What am I supposed to do here? |
| 1:21.6 | whatever. Yeah. Yeah definitely getting used to it. shortcut again, what am I supposed to do here? Whatever. |
| 1:22.8 | Oh, yeah, definitely getting used to it. |
| 1:24.8 | What about, or maybe we should do an entire hasty on this |
| 1:27.4 | because people always ask, like, |
| 1:29.0 | should I use like a pro software, |
| 1:31.0 | or should I use screen flow flow which is more geared towards screen |
| 1:34.4 | cat maybe let's let's stop this right now and we'll have a whole because you have |
| 1:38.3 | experience with both I do we should do a little hasty on it kind of did the |
| 1:42.4 | the benefits the pros and cons. |
| 1:44.3 | Yeah, definitely, and I have some choice words to say about screen flows, |
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