This will show you the estimated run time on battery as well as the charging status.
Lastly, you can check your UPS status by clicking "Device Information". The calculation here is that my UPS can power my equipment for about 1 hour, meaning that there would have to be 4 outages right after each-other for my NAS to not have enough time to shut down properly. I also set "Time before DiskStation enters Safe Mode" to 15 minutes. Next, enable "Shutdown UPS when the system enters Safe Mode". Now that your Synology NAS has recognised your UPS, you can enable it. Now that the file is correctly configured, simply reboot your Synology and you should be able to enable UPS support. This is what I ended up going for - but both approaches work. The other option is to simply copy what seems like a correctly configured file from /etc/ups by running the following command: sudo cp /etc/ups/ups.conf /usr/syno/etc/ups/ups.conf You can do this by logging in to your NAS over SSH and using vim: sudo vi /usr/syno/etc/ups/ups.conf In my case, the file was completely empty, so I simply added the following lines: The configuration file can be found at: /usr/syno/etc/ups/ups.conf As such, you can modify the NUT server config files manually to support the UPS. On the backend Synology uses NUT as a UPS daemon. In the end, I was able to solve this by manually configuring it. If you see "UPS has been connected", you can skip this step.įor some strange reason, my UPS was not automatically detected, even though it did show up in the Info Center and in the terminal via lsusb. This will make sure that after your UPS has shut down your NAS, it will automatically reboot when power has been restored. Restart automatically after a power failureįirst you'll need to enable "Restart automatically after a power failure". Head on over to the Control Panel and select Hardware & Power. Now it's time to configure your shiny new UPS on your Synology NAS. Simply connect this to the PowerChute port on the back of the UPS and plug the other side into your Synology NAS.
This is not included in the box, so you'll need to get that on your own. You'll also need a standard USB printer cable to connect the APC BX950U-GR to your NAS. Simply plug it in to the wall and connect your devices to the back of it. The process of unpacking the NAS and setting it up for the first time is pretty self explanatory. Turns out I may have overestimated my power consumption, so it'll power my DS918+ for over 1 hour. Supports backing up and restoring LDAP directory configurations via Hyper Backup. Supported LDAP clients: Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS. I briefly google'd round the internet and ended up settling for the APC BX950U-GR a it would give me enough runtime for my Synology NAS and network equipment to cover these minor outages while also not being overly expensive. Based on LDAP version 3 (RFC2251) Maximum user count: 20,000.
#Synology ups server how to
Today we're going to walk through how to configure the APC BX950u-GR battery backup on your Synology NAS.Īfter having had several minor power outages here in Spain resulting in my NAS improperly getting shut down, I decided it was time to buy an uninterruptible power supply (UPS).