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r/synology•
ryanoh

Question about "home" directories

I recently started playing with Moments, which meant I needed to turn on the option for the Home/Homes directory. This is fine, but it kind of clashes with how I've been backing up to BackBlaze. Currently all users have folders inside of one folder, which I then backup to one giant BackBlaze B2 bucket.

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If I'm going to be forced to used the Home directory structure... should each user's content be inside their own Home directory, and then from their I can either back up the entire Homes to one large bucket, or back up each user's Home to their own B2 bucket?

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Screenshot if it helps.

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https://i.redd.it/jc77adafw4r21.png

Posted Apr 9, 2019, 12:39 AM UTC

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brupgmding•

The homes directory is the top level of all home dirs. You can use that on, then it should be the same. With the home service each user can connect to her own directory using the share name home.

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ryanohOP•

So should I move all of my content into those home directories?

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Sands43•

"Homes" = Admin level default access where all the ...

"Home" folders go for individual users.

Non admin Users do not need access to "Homes"

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Not sure, but can't you create a new Volume just for Moments?

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ryanohOP•

My main issue is around B2. Currently I'm backing up the one volume that contains all the user folders.

I guess my actual question is can I move everything into each user's Home folder (which will also contain their Moments directory) and back up the entire Homes directory via B2?

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Sands43•

Yes, you can do that. But you will likely grab stuff you don't really need to backup to the cloud. IIRC, you can only backup certain extensions, so grabbing .raw or .jpg would bypass say .pdfs

IMHO, family photos is one to be backed up. but (personally) I have a lot of junk and novelty stuff that wouldn't hurt much if I lost it all.

I don't use moments, so not as familiar with how it can be setup for where it's data goes.

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ryanohOP•

The main three things I'm trying to back up are Moments photos (per user), archived files (also per user), and my media library. B2 does everything I need, I'm just wondering the best way to structure my local files to simplify what B2 is sorting into buckets.

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Sands43•

I have a number of folders at the root level.

  • Homes (user data and backups)
  • Photos
  • Media (movies)

So if you do something similar you can manage user rights in Synology and do backups to B2 with only 3 buckets.

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BakeCityWay•

I'm not sure I get the question. You decide where you put the data and you'll have to decide for yourself what makes sense for you. You don't sync volumes in cloud sync. You never use volumes. You choose shared folders and folders inside of them.

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