This is why Synology is a great choice

Discover the best #Synology apps to enhance your home or office network. From #productivity tools to #entertainment options, this video covers my favorite and most useful apps on the Synology platform.

Active Backup for Business Tutorial

Synology Photos Tutorial

Synology Surveillance Station With Amcrest AI Advanced Detection

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Chapters
00:00 The Best Synology Apps
00:24 My Ad
01:17 Hyper Backup
02:18 Snapshots
03:10 Storage Analyzer
03:48 Log Center
04:45 Container Manager
05:36 Emby
06:22 Active Backup For Business
07:44 Synology Photos
09:19 Cloud Sync
10:19 Active Backup For Google Workspace and Office 365
11:17 Synology Central Managment
12:12 Synology Drive Documents
12:58 Synology Surveillance Station
13:32 Tailscale
13:48 Synology File Station File Sharing

[narnol]

Do you think Hyper Backup or Snapshots is a better option for backing up 1 synology to another. Using the Active Backup For Business for all of our VMs

[ufomism]

Do you still use the Synology camera you reviewed a while back? How has it been holding up? Do you prefer Unifi protect or Synology surveillance station with their cameras? Thanks

[jenniferw]

Tailscale doesnt' work well for me because my pfsense firewall doesnt' have UDP hole punching enabled. I know I can enable it but not sure if I want to. Would be nice if Tom did a video on the security implications of enabling UDP hole punching in pfSense for tailscale.

[christopherj]

Unfortunately, Synology's new 7.2.2 DSM update has removed HEVC (H.265) codex from being processed locally for Surveillance Station and "After the update, cameras set to “motion detection by Surveillance Station” will switch to "motion detection by Camera" if the cameras support it. If your cameras do not support “motion detection by Camera“, the function will be disabled, and the related functions (e.g., recording schedule, notification, alarm, and action rule) will also be affected."

[plawer]

I have Cloud Sync and is using Hyper Backup to backup my cloud drives. Though my primary cloud storage is Cloud Drive.

[royboyll]

Hi download stations inbuilt torrents are no longer working. I use download station to download my clients' videos, but it no longer works. Is there anything we can do. Thanks

[kevinhilton]

Actually like your synology reviews quite a bit..don't like the synology hardware as much unfortunately..really outdated hardware for a premium price. But the software features are really good

[somebody]

Any chance you could make an updated install guide for Nextcloud on TrueNAS Scale? A lot has changed since your last video with the introduction of the Nextcloud 2.0.x and the release of TrueNAS Scale 24.04.x-Dragonfish.

[WarrenGarabrandt]

Surveillance Station is a SOLID security camera platform. Active Backup for Business has saved by bacon more than once, and it definitely worth setting up. Remember, Microsoft is ultimately NOT responsible for your data! You have to make your own backups. If they have a fire at their data center, or a cyber attack, or whatever else, your data can be destroyed beyond recovery. Your local backup of critical business data could be the only thing between you and the unemployment line.

[SomeRandomPerson]

@7:30 re Active Backup for Business: "Unfortunately the Linux backup on this is not great". Yeah, it's really not great.
When I was all-in on Windows, I used to pay for Backblaze for each Windows machine. I'm looking for something as easily set-and-forget as that for Linux Desktop machines.
Do you have any suggestions on what to use for Linux backup?

I keep getting told "Oh, just use rsync set up a crojob" or something like that. But it's still not fantastic - and if it fails, there's no error reporting unless I go build it.
I've tried Duplicati - but similar issues there, and it can't back up files that are locked (like sqlite DBs).

I'd love something that can do the equivalent of Volume Shadow Copies from Windows/NTFS on Linux. I believe LVM Snapshots should be equivalent, this avoids the locked files/inconsistent state issues, but I have not yet found anything like it.

[anand-nbbb]

Hi Bro can you please make a step by step video on configuring Pfsense Openvpn with split tunnelling & configure Ubuntu as a VPN client. Please its a request. kindly reply

[akswrkzvyuujhd]

Nice overview of some of the great applications on the Synology NAS. Linux may present a problem for Active Backup for Business, but I completely recovered my wife's Mac after a hardware problem earlier this year. I would like to leave you a "like", but the button stopped working today. I am not doing anything abnormal (haven't even had the computer on for most of the day). Since Susan is dead now, one would think YouTube's anti-user, anti-creator crap would have stopped!

[mattatwar]

1 year cost to backup our Gsuite data with a online backup service (quoted out several) cost more than the Synology cost for us (with drives).

[PPPHLPPP]

Tom, i do like your content a lot, and i think youre a good creator and teacher. But i just wish you would focus more on "open" software, like OpnSense vs pfSense, and things like TrueNAS or unRAID vs Synology etc... i know you already covered the pfSense vs OpnSense stuff (sort of), but just in general, i wish you would take into account the more open solutions more. Personally i dislike pfSense (Netgate, the company, not the software), and i am not a fan of closed system devices like Synology NAS or QNAP etc, but i still follow your channel for a long time now and i enjoy your videos. Just some feedback.

[alienJIZ]

Jellyfin > Emby
Frigate > Synology SS

But to each their own at the end of the day. Respect to all who self host

[Bob_Smith]

Symology is abandoning home users w/ horrible spec machines, insistent on 1gb LAN and lack of Intel CPUs for media servers.