May 27th, 2024 Over the years with my home lab, I’ve wanted to point urls back to my home IP address. However, I’m on a dynamic IP address that changes from time to time. This breaks the domain every time my IP address moved… Enter DDNS. DDNS or Dynamic DNS is a process where a service…
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Using a Raspberry Pi and Hyper Backup to Backup a Synology NAS
May 14th, 2024 Situation: I’ve been running my Synology with a remote backup for a couple of years. I love the Synology NAS and their cloud backup solution. I’m using Synology’s Hyper Backup pushing my data to the Synology’s S2 cloud. I also have local snapshots turned on, but no local backup on a separate…
Synology: Solving Slow Drive Backup Speeds – 4 MB/s on USB 3.0
May 14th, 2024 Situation: I’m doing trying to do a backup from my Synology NAS – DS220+ to a USB 3.0 3TB drive connected to the front usb slot. This would be to copy all my critical data, mostly family photos, videos and financial documents. The goal is a backup I can read if the…
How To Manage Your Home Lab with a Custom Domain, SSL, Pihole and Traefik
May 5th, 2024 I’ve been playing with my raspberry pies for awhile now and have found that accessing them has been a real pain. Managing the IP addresses caused me to keep lists, just to remember all of them. I ran into two issues: Tracking IPs has caused me to create lists, change lists, shortcuts,…
Install WordPress on a Pi, Debian, or Ubuntu server
You can create a WordPress site in a Virtual Machine and Make a Template of It! Setting up WordPress can be straight forward, and it can be confusing. This depends on the guide, & the depths that you go to when setting it up. These are the two sets of guides I referenced in setting…
Using sshfs and Synology. I Can’t. Can You?
I tried to setup a ssh key to use sshsf. I’m sure plenty of people have done it and it works great. I couldn’t get it to work, I blame the Synology NAS. There are changes and additions particular to this NAS that I couldn’t follow. I use ssh keys to log into every pi I’ve…