Here’s a blog post about my NAS and what I’ve managed to do to/with it to get the most functionality/usage.

RSync / Grsync wasn’t working to backup Ubuntu laptop. I could access with FTPES in Filezilla but it was slow and not as feature rich as I’d have liked. I could SSH in using terminal but for some reason SFTP would not work in Nautilus when using the “connect to server” bit.

Next try was to upgrade the DiskStation OS (DS Manager) to see if there was better functionality and stuff.

This was being done remotely so I had to hope that the settings would remain otherwise I would lose my DynDns connection & have to travel back to the UK to resolve the issue.

It was time to take a chance. I stopped my SSH connection in terminal and the torrent downloads I had going and started uploading the .pat file of the new DSM (v.3.1-1613)

The error message given after the file had been uploaded was something about an incompatible file type.

Not disheartened I gave the 411j specific v.3.1354 a go. Same error again.

Hmm… what to try next?