Tag: Synology

  • Linuxmint or Ubuntu: Crashplan backup using headless Synology NAS

    If you’re using a Synology NAS box and would like to back up your files to offsite storage service Crashplan (which is relatively inexpensive), there is a relatively easy way to do this.  However, you need to think about the Crashplan software as having two components.  There is the backup engine, or the software that communicates…

  • LinuxMint or Ubuntu: How to Automount Synology Shares

    UPDATE:  As of Ubuntu 13.04, these directions no longer work.  I figured out a way to get this to work, however.  See the updated directions at the bottom of this post. ——————Old Directions———————————— If you’d like to share your network attached storage from a Synology file server with your Linuxmint or Ubuntu machine and have…