

For example, the Drive Server offers a web portal for file management. In addition to the main functions of Cloud Station, you’ll also receive access to many other functions.

That way you will be sort of somewhere in between. Synology Drive Server is the successor of Synology Cloud Station.

Defrag synology cloud station drive Pc#
But Synology has its own advantages such as enhanced privacy, phone or PC backup, shared folders, various dedicated PC and mobile apps to store and manage files, multiple users, feature-rich OS, and many more. If you want some of both - well, only defragment source volume, not the snapshots, right before taking a snapshot. In this video I go over the process of upgrading from Synology Cloud Station Backup to Synology Drive.Articles related to the upgrade. When you check the above table, one of the major advantages of Public Cloud is no initial cost and also you can pay them monthly. And there are many more snapshots in the filesystem that the Snapshot Replication app will show you - those created by Drive versioning, or Docker, etc.īasically, if you want performance, but don't care about the space - defragment, but only if you convinced yourself that your performance issues are due to fragmentation. Your way to recover is to delete all snapshots, defragment again, balance the tree again, and then re-enable snapshots. You can confirm that by looking how much of the shared data is used by snapshots before and after defragmentation (see btrfs filesystem du -s /path. Data in a readonly snapshot will be treated as CoW (Copy on Write) and that's what will eat your space. Yes, it's normal, don't run defragmentation unless you have a very very good reason to.
