Does Emby run on a Western Digital My Cloud NAS yet?

[zBernie 16]

Does Emby run on a Western Digital My Cloud NAS yet?   I've had it with Synology issues and lackluster support.

Edited April 30, 2021 by zBernie

[Carlo 4561]

Hi, Yes, check out these links to see they are of assistance to you.
https://emby.media/western-digital-server.html
https://emby.media/western-digital-server-os3.html

The vulture in me wants to know if you might have a Synology for sale cheap soon? LOL

[zBernie 16]

2 minutes ago, cayars said:

Hi, Yes, check out these links to see they are of assistance to you.
https://emby.media/western-digital-server.html
https://emby.media/western-digital-server-os3.html

The vulture in me wants to know if you might have a Synology for sale cheap soon? LOL

 

Have you ever seen a NAS fly?  Stick around!  Actually, I just expanded the NAS by adding disk and purchased a new Seagate 8 TB drive to backup the NAS.  After the initial 3 day 3.5 TB backup (NAS to USB), the second and third backups only took under 20 minutes.  Now I have a Hyper Backup that's been running for 11 hours, having backed up 360GB, and it's still not done!  This is definitely a bug in the Hyper Backup software,  I have no other logical explanation.

[Carlo 4561]

My 920+ just "flew" via FedEx to my house last saturday. LOL
I'm just getting started with Synology so I'm quite green.

What kind of issues are you having?
Do you really think WD will have better NAS support?

Maybe it's just my opinion, but as long as things do what they should it's the community and forum members of said support community that is what I'd consider beneficial. If base functionality doesn't work then of course that's a different story!

[zBernie 16]

30 minutes ago, cayars said:

My 920+ just "flew" via FedEx to my house last saturday. LOL
I'm just getting started with Synology so I'm quite green.

What kind of issues are you having?
Do you really think WD will have better NAS support?

Maybe it's just my opinion, but as long as things do what they should it's the community and forum members of said support community that is what I'd consider beneficial. If base functionality doesn't work then of course that's a different story!

Actually, the Synology support is horrid.  But you will find that out soon enough.  Being a Systems Engineer III, I've normally been able to determine the cause of a NAS issue.  In this case, based on the log entry below, I believe that an Acronis True Image backup of my wife's computer caused the problem.   This resulted in the Hyper Backup running 12 hours!  The good news is did not backup almost 400GB as it indicated.  I think I'll skip the WD NAS, I had one years ago and it left a lot to be desired.

FYI, using Hyper Backup, there is an option to backup Emby running on the NAS.  Thought you might be interested!

Have fun with your new NAS!

 

 

[Carlo 4561]

That type of error message is not unusual when you try to backup something that is open regardless of platform.  How do you backup something that is actively being edited?

Some OSes can do snapshot backups but it's with me advanced software and the OS and apps have to be created to do this.

 

Edited April 30, 2021 by cayars

[zBernie 16]

1 hour ago, cayars said:

That type of error message is not unusual when you try to backup something that is open regardless of platform.  How do you backup something that is actively being edited?

Some OSes can do snapshot backups but it's with me advanced software and the OS and apps have to be created to do this.

 

No, it's not unusual.  What is unusual is that Hyper Backup ran for 12 hours, and indicated that 400GB of files had been processed.  Hyper Backup did not handle the open file well.

[Carlo 4561]

It's VERY usual to me, as that is how many backup software will function.  They may retry, retry, retry, etc while the file is open.  It all depends on the software and purpose.  You could never backup a SQL database like this for example unless it's closed first OR the backup software is brand SQL aware.  Same with OS/snapshots which are advanced features. Mix in VMs or Docker and it's even more complex.

This is typical business backup basics which is their market.

I think some of this is "expectation" of what is feasible and what isn't for a basic backup software. But if you want to backup open files on different OSes while open then you can expect to fork out more on this type of backup software then you likely have tied up in the NAS itself.  That's just the nature of the game in backup software.

[zBernie 16]

1 minute ago, cayars said:

It's VERY usual to me, as that is how many backup software will function.  They may retry, retry, retry, etc while the file is open.  It all depends on the software and purpose.  You could never backup a SQL database like this for example unless it's closed first OR the backup software is brand SQL aware.  Same with OS/snapshots which are advanced features. Mix in VMs or Docker and it's even more complex.

This is typical business backup basics which is their market.

I think some of this is "expectation" of what is feasible and what isn't for a basic backup software. But if you want to backup open files on different OSes while open then you can expect to fork out more on this type of backup software then you likely have tied up in the NAS itself.  That's just the nature of the game in backup software.

I understand, I've backed up enough databases over the years!  Some can be backed up hot, and others cannot.  In this case the Acronis True Image backup had completed, yet Hyper Backup still tried to back it up for about 10 more hours, which seems unusual.  Ah well, I'll make sure they don't collide again!

[Carlo 4561]

That does sound a bit weird.  If using acronis which essentially does snapshot backups (best the OS will let it anyway) did you set it up to record directly to the NAS?  That would be how I would set it up vs to a local drive then backing that up.

Anyway, I'd suggest maybe rethinking how you use the synology NAS and see if you can do things differently to your advantage vs looking at another platform.  But with that said if you decide to send that bugger flying send me a PM first.  I might be able to help fund your new NAS project. LOL

[zBernie 16]

1 minute ago, cayars said:

That does sound a bit weird.  If using acronis which essentially does snapshot backups (best the OS will let it anyway) did you set it up to record directly to the NAS?  That would be how I would set it up vs to a local drive then backing that up.

Anyway, I'd suggest maybe rethinking how you use the synology NAS and see if you can do things differently to your advantage vs looking at another platform.  But with that said if you decide to send that bugger flying send me a PM first.  I might be able to help fund your new NAS project. LOL

Nah, I'm over it, I think I'll keep the Synology NAS.  There's a lot to like about it.  In Acronis True Image, I do a system image backup to an external drive attached to our PC's, and also to the NAS.  Then I backup the NAS to an 8TB external USB drive.  That's where the problem occurred.  It should be easy to fix though.

Again, have fun with your new NAS!