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CONFIGURE NFS ON A SYNOLOGY

Here is how I configure NFS on my synoloy so that I can copy files from my synology over to my Ubuntu 22.04 AI system that uses a JBOD

Login into your synology

Click Control Panel

Click File Services

Select the NFS Tab at the top

Place a checkmark next to Enable NFS

I use NFSv3

Then Click Apply or Save/

Go back to Control Panel

Then select Shared Folder

Click on the Share that you want to Enable NFS on

Click Edit

Then click NFS Permissions

Select Create

Type in the IP for your Ubuntu 22.04 computer and make sure the rest of the settings are set just like the picture here:

Click Save

Then on your Ubuntu box you will want to

Open a Terminal

sudo su –

cd /mnt

sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.1.100:/volume1/Folder /mnt/synology

replace Folder with your actual folder, and use the ip of the share you want to copy from

cd /mnt/synology

cp -R -v /mnt/synology/* /media/ubuntu/JBOD\ Disk\ 5/

this will copy everything from the synology folder that is connected to your synology, and it will place it into JBOD disk 5 (change the paths to whatever you need for you)

SPEED UP YOUR SYNOLOGY WITH THIS

By default your MTU is 1500. Here is how you increase it to 9000 to enable Jumbo Frames, with no network impact. It will speed up your system because it does not have to repeatedly send the header info on every small packet.

Login into your Synology

Go to Control Panel

Select Network

Then go to Network Interface

Select Lan 1

Then press Edit

Checkmark MTU and set the value to 9000

Click Ok

Click Yes

Then do the same for Lan 2

Thats it. You now have jumbo frames

UNABLE TO ADD MOVIES TO PLEX ON A SYNOLOGY

This is a common issue when you first install the synology.

To fix it you simply need to allow the proper permissions on the Share.

Log into your synology

Click Control Panel

Edit your Shares

And set the permissions as shown here:

Plex needs Read/Write access

Save it

Now you can go back to your Synology Plex App

Add the library

You will most likely find your files in Volume 1 \ Plex

FASTEST WAY TO COPY FILES BETWEEN TWO SYNOLOGY NAS DEVICES

Windows is slow…takes weeks to copy 15TB between two devices if you use explorer. Here is how you copy the files in hours instead of weeks.

On your Windows 11 computer

Open Explorer

Navigate to Synology 1

Map a Drive from your Windows 11 pc to the Synology Share
ex. Drive X will be \\Synology1\Share

Now do the same for Synology 2 and the share you want to map.
ex. Drive Y will be \\Synology2\Share

On your Windows 11 pc, now open PowerShell (not as Administrator, just open PowerShell)

Type:
robocopy ‘X:\FolderYouAreCopyingFrom’ ‘Y:\FolderYouAreCopyingTo’ /S /E /MT:32 /NFL /NDL /NJH /NJS

example: robocopy ‘X:\SourceCode\Documents’ ‘Y:\NewSourceCodeRepo\Documents’ /S /E /MT:32 /NFL /NDL /NJH /NJS /V

You will copy thousands of files per second over a 1GbE network