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You want to backup your Synology NAS (or portions of it) via Hyper Backup to an external rsync-compatible server via SSH.
Everything works great, and as expected, when you do not use the "Transfer Encryption" option to connect to your external server running rsyncd, but Hyper Backup throws very generic and unhelpful errors when you enable "Transfer Encryption" and attempt to use SSH.
For those of you using my Raspberry PI Network Boot Guide, please be aware of an issue with the current raspberrypi-bootloader package (Version: 1:1.20210727-1). Here are the offending package details, though the bug may exist in one of this package’s dependencies.
In my spare cycles over the last couple of months, I've spent a significant amount of time refining my process for network booting Raspberry Pis on a Synology NAS. It took reading many other existing blogs, as well as the official Raspberry Pi network boot guide. In the end, I've figured out the nuances of booting a Pi 3B, Pi 3B+, and 4B on both NFS and iSCSI.
After lots of cool changes on the home network, I wanted to post about something that had stumped me recently with my RPi4 running Raspberry PI OS (Debian Buster). It would seem that configuring my primary Synology for LACP-based link aggregation had an unusual side-effect on my RPi4.
Since 1997, I have had an off and on relationship with Linux as a desktop operating system. I've thoroughly enjoyed it as a server operating system, but have never had the everything "just works" experience on desktops. Invariably, there is always something major flaw that becomes too annoying or troublesome that leads me back to Windows…
I wanted to post a short update about some other interesting discoveries that I've made since I have revisited Debian as my open source operating system of choice. In my previous article, I referred to Debian as Debian Linux. While Debian is one of the oldest and most mature distributions, it would have been more apt (excuse the pun) on my part to refer to it as a universal operating system, which is how they now brand the project.
Linux has become a necessary tool for me as both a systems engineer and developer. Linux is an ideal development platform in many respects, as it includes tools, shells, and apps that are much more suited for out-of-the-box software development than a stock install of most mainstream commercial operating systems like Windows and macOS. This is why I felt it was time to write an article about my recent switch from Linux Mint to Debian.
