NAS or Network-Attached Storage is file-level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to clients. It mainly operates as a file server and is specialized for this by its hardware, software or a mix of those. Most NASes offer many accessing algorithms (like Samba, FTP, SSH and many more) and can host a website, stream multimedia and do many more tasks.
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rsync suddenly hanging indefinitely during transfers
For the past few years, I have been using an rsync one-liner to back up important folders on my Mac Mini desktop (OSX 10.9, 2.5 GHz i5, 4 GB RAM) to a FreeNAS box (0.7.2 Sabanda revision 5266, Pentium D 2.66 GHz, 822MiB RAM [reported by the system,…

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Php - Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress
How do I fix the error below?
Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.
I use my NAS with a telnet connection.
I installed FFP 0.7
My php.ini is in: ffp/etc/php.ini and I uncommented everything…

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rsync incremental file list taking forever
I'm copying from one NAS to another. (Netgear ReadyNAS -> QNAP) i tried Pulling the files by running rsync on the QNAP, and that took forever, so I'm currently trying to push them from the Netgear. The code I'm using is:
rsync -avhr /sauce/folder…

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Set up GIT on a NAS with Synology's official package
I bought 2-3 months ago a Synology 213air NAS for programing purpose.
Then before trying to set up git manually on my NAS, I heard that DSM4.3 will propose Synology's official package. So I decided to wait.
The DSM4.3 with Git package is now out :…

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Python referencing old SSL version
I have a Dropbox upload script on an old nas box I have, recently I've been getting the following error
SSL certificate error: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:504: error:0D0890A1:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_verify:unknown message digest algorithm
I think this is…

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How to move local git repo from one hdd to another hdd?
I'm currently setting up git on one of my local hdds, but will eventually be moving all my git repos on to another hdd (I want to split my work files from my own files, but I do not have the drives yet). Would it be possible to move those local…

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NFS network mount: set owner to specific account
OK, I'm seriously confused over this stuff, so really descriptive answers would be appreciated, especially if they make this whole mounting stuff less magical and more predictable.
I am trying to mount my Drobo-FS NAS with nfs to get better…

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Prevent default redirection from port 80 to 5000 on Synology NAS (DSM 5)
I would like to use a nginx front server on my Synology NAS for reverse-proxying pruposes. The goal is to provide a facade for the non-standard port numbers used by diverse webservers hosted the NAS. nginx should be listening on port 80, otherwise…

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How can I synchronize two processes accessing a file on a NAS?
Here's the thing: I have two applications, written in C++ and running on two machines with different OS (one Linux and one Windows). One of this process is in charge of updating an XML file on a NAS (Network Attached Storage) while the other one…

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Python "IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument" when using cPickle to write large array to network drive
EDIT:
At the suggestion of J. F. Sebastian, I can get the same error much more simply:
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
IPython 0.10 -- An…

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linux application get Killed
I have a "Seagate Central" NAS with an embedded linux on it
$ cat /etc/*release
MontaVista Linux 6, (.dev-snapshot-20130726)
When I try to run my own application on this NAS, it will be "Killed"
without any notifications on dmesg or…

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How to replace duplicate files with hard links using python?
I'm a photographer and doing many backups. Over the years I found myself with a lot of hard drives. Now I bought a NAS and copied all my pictures on one 3TB raid 1 using rsync. According to my script about 1TB of those files are duplicates. That…

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How to determine storage type (SAN/NAS/local disk) remotely, using PowerShell?
I have to collect the attached storage types of each server in our environment: Several hundreds of W2K3/W2K8 servers.
A script would be very useful to determine if the attached storage is SAN / SAN mirrored / NAS / local or combination of these.…

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Safely copy files on NAS Filer
we have a NetApp NAS filer which from time to time seems to fail, not sure if this depends on network issues, heavy load or the Filer itself; the thing is that the usual System.IO.File.Copy(...) command fails sometimes unexpectedly while it worked a…

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PyCharm reindexing when project is stored on a NAS
I have been working with PyCharm for quite some time now and I recently upgraded my storing system with a NAS.
Everything is working fine except one : PyCharm scans through my files to reindex them very very often. This makes me losing a lot of time…

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