I thought I’ll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!

I’ll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!

  • penquin
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    2 months ago

    This is the dumbest question ever, but here goes: I’m trying to use pika to make regular backups of my whole system to my synology Nas. So I’d choose “remote”, but no matter what I enter after the SMB it doesn’t take it. How do I back up to my synology Nas using pika? I like pika because the UI is fucking stupid simple, except this one little nugget.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      I have had issues with using a NAS over SMB because of some malarky about reverting to SMB 1.0 or something. Dunno; I stopped backing up to my NAS and just use external drives.

      • penquin
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        2 months ago

        That’s probably what I’m going to do eventually. But my Nas is working not problem on dolphin. Whenever I needed to, I’d just drag and drop my files into the nas through dolphin.

    • fossphi
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      2 months ago

      I’m not sure but I think for pika you need a borg server? I use restic for my backups and have only partially looked at borg so I might be wrong

    • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      You have a permissions or addressing problem.

      If the nas is seeing your systems requests and saying “no”, it’s a permissions problem. If it’s not seeing your systems requests then it’s an addressing problem.