Sync Google Drive / Dropbox to your Synology NAS - Cloud Sync Tutorial

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In this video, we will be reviewing Synology Cloud Sync, what it is, and how to use it in your workflow. Synology Cloud Sync can be used to sync your Synology NAS with Google Drive, Dropbox, and pretty much any other cloud provider.

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#nas #synology #cloudstorage

TOC
00:00 Introduction
00:32 Use cases
01:38 Setup tutorial
06:07 Transferring files
09:23 Limitations
13:22 Conclusion
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I have 4 security cam's at my home ( set for motion sensing only ) with the JPG's and MP4's stored on my NAS; I don't use Surveillance Station. When I'm away from home, I enable a Cloud Sync job to send just the JPG's to Google Drive for viewing. This is far quicker and safer to access than logging into my NAS remotely. If something looks amiss, I Tailscale into the NAS to view the video. Such a great app. Thanks as always Will; much appreciated.

DavidM
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This is great, and what I exactly needed for my first NAS. Looking forward to my first Synology setup. Thanks for making this video!

Alex-fskz
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I found this very useful just yesterday. I had 8000 photos to upload from my MacBook to my Synology. The Synology indexing process made this painfully slow to do this directly. Instead I uploaded all 8000 to Google drive and set up a sync. So Google drive and my NAS are now chatting away and my MacBook is free from the hassle. It will take 48 hrs to index the images on the Synology but I am not too bothered by this.

paulbmurphy
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14 minutes of my time well invested, thank you for your thorough and honest explanation.

edgarenriqueespana
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Seen some of your video's now, and you're a real pro and thank you!

Dekalebats
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Just a perfect video! best solution for non-enterprise Onedrive licenses since active backup for MS365 only supports enterprise licenses

christianblicher
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Thank you for this!! I will try to set it for both OneDrive and iCloud

starfoxBR
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Awesome video, I just wish now we could sync google photos with the metadata (done on Google's side on purpose so people don't move out of it).

gaijinboricua
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Thanks! I really wish they'd include a sync option for Google photos...

samer
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Thanks, very useful topic and highly informative presentation!

training
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@SpaceRex I have a question about best practice for setup. We have been using Dropbox as our main file server for years. Last year I bought a Synology NAS (mostly based on your videos!) and have been using that for file backup but not daily work tasks yet.
Am I better off to -
A - use Synology NAS day to day as our main file server and simply use Dropbox as an offsite backup option.
B - use Dropbox as the main file server and use the NAS as backup?
I think I know the answer…

I’ve had some funky/frustrating things happen with files disappearing when renaming files or folders because of that last point you mentioned. It seems cleaner when Synology NAS is the source of truth and Dropbox is the offsite backup?

Nick_Selleck
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Hi Will,

Love the tutorial videos, please keep them coming.

One random/off topic question:
What setup are you using for the recording? Most specifically your microphone? Love the sound in your videos and that you neither have a microphone on the desk or some sort of lavalier mic attached to your shirt.

Are you using a boom mic?

terezasanchez
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Thanks for the great video! I have a question: I'm syncing specific folders from my Synology NAS to Google Drive (not the entire drive). However, when I check Google Drive, the files and folders don't look the same as they do on the Synology—they're all named 'buckets' and 'pools, ' and I can't see the actual video files. If I ever need to restore files from Google Drive, how can I convert these 'bucket' and 'pool' files back into the original video files from my NAS?

adamsaunders
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10:13 Either this has been fixed, or doesn't apply for the actual filenames (granted, the way it's worded somewhat implies it only applies for folder names). I've just set up a Synology > Google Drive sync and have a lot of files with brackets in their name; they all seem to sync perfectly fine.

Edit: Just tested with folders. Folder names with brackets and hashtags seem to work without any issues as well (not sure if '*' or '?' will work too, I renamed the folders through File Explorer on Windows and it doesn't allow these characters to be used in names).

TheRickerX
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Good video! Is there any option for Apple iCloud?

HelberPontes
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can you viably use this to transfer your Google Photos library to Synology Photos?

petermarin
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Is there a way to easy do the same but with google photos?

Revoc
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Very useful thanks so much, you mentioned once you'd demo how you can add a drive to an array on DSM 7 with cloning without rebuilding is that something still coming?

ahmedaborady
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Thanks for the video. I need to free up my Google spaces so I plan to migrate Google Photos to my Synology NAS via Cloud sync. If I delete all the photos inside Google after the migration finishes, will my NAS delete its own copy as well?

TangDynasty
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Ok, try this one. Our goal was to create a HyperBackup of a Dropbox client. We setup the bidirectional Cloud Sync between NAS and Dropbox, everything was synching great. We then setup HyperBackup to grab nightly backups, was also working great. Then it all stopped working. We tried to reconnect the Cloud Sync and got an API warning that we exceeded our API calls against Dropbox. First question, is there a way around this API limit? Second question, is there a better way to Hyper Backup Dropbox or is this the recommended way. Thanks!

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