DSM 7.2

A disk in the Synology 412? went bad in late October, 2023, so I bought a Synology 923+.

I had forgotten what a pain in the ass setting up the original Synology was. You'd think I could have avoided the pain the second time, but they had changed just enough that I went off on a whole weekend of debugging before I found the simple change: The admin account was no longer apparently synonymous with root, so I had to change the authorized users in the /etc/rsyncd.conf file to admin from root.

Copying from one to the other was somewhat time consuming. I got a lot more evidence that the 412, at least, really can't do more than one thing at a time. When other backups kicked in while I was trying to copy to the new 923+, the transfer rate would go way down for both processes. Swapping, perhaps, or just thrashing the meagre disk cache on the 412.

The command I used for copying looked like this:

sudo time rsync -aH --numeric-ids --stats /volume1/NetBackup/backupdata/ixbalanque admin@fs-2::NetBackup