I'm new to NAS and I've watched dozens of videos about Synology software, yours are the only ones I fully understand. Thank you for your efforts!

That's by far the best Video I've seen covering Synology Drive. You're explaining all the details. Thank you!

I've had my NAS for a year and only realized from this video that I could automatically sync my important working files instead of doing it all manually! You saved me time and gave me additional peace of mind! Thanks!

Complete and through explanation, this is the third Wunder Tech video I have watched tonight, made me realize, I am only likely using 15% of the capability of the NAS. Thank You.

Absolutely the BEST instructions! I converted from Synology's Cloud Station to Synology Drive be viewing your video and walking step-by-step through the process on my PC. Thank you so much for such clear instructions. I'm off n' running with the new Drive backup thanks to you...

I'm not done watching the video, but I've already Thumps-Up and wanted to comment saying THANK YOU for taking the time to make this video - I was pretty sure this functionality existed in the Synology ecosystem but wasn't sure where to find it - I will be revisiting this video a couple of times in the near future to configure my sync setup - Thanks again !

Explained everything in plain language and answered all the questions I had on this subject. Excellent content. This NAS keeps surprising me with it's capabilities and functions. Thanks

EXCELLENT Tutorial... The way you provided the information was very easy to understand and user friendly for any person to follow. Thank you so much and I greatly appreciate what you are providing for the Synology users. Any and all information is useful information. Please keep up the Great Work. IT IS GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!!

Very great instructional and informational on things I didn't even know after owning a synology for a few years. You cleared up a lot of things for me that were always kind of question marks. Thank you!

straight to the point. No bull$h%t. Audio is perfect and the screen capture spot on. Well done

Thanks. I was able to 1) realize I needed this SD, and 2) back-up my important folders to the NAS.

Thanks. This helped me understand it a bit more. Reading the help files you don't always get a sense of what the mean until someone show syou

Finally I found someone who can explain this too me.

Thank you, I found an exact answer to my question about sync tasks after 10 video of "how to install Synolgy drive client..." ))

Excellent presentation straight to the point. This has open the understanding that i was lacking with this technology. Keep up the great work. I certainly appreciate your Method of instructions.

excellent video all the detail a man/woman could ask for. very well spoken and articulate. great explanation of the client and web browser. just got yourself a new sub. thanks for the video.

Thanks for this video. It was seamless installation for me and is working great. Much appreciated.

Excelente!! La explicación la he entendido mejor que muchos videos en español. Gracias

Thank you for providing the video and document (though the images seem to be broken). I bought a DS720+ and was shocked that there was nearly no documentation on how to use the product properly.

Absolutely spot-on video, clear and direct. Thanks a lot for your expertise and more importantly, for sharing it in such a succinct way with all of us.!!!

Very clear tutorial Thanks so much for putting together! 👌 - 2 small questions if you don't mind - 1. How does one distinguish between use cases of sync and backup? Is it overkill to have a Sync job AND a backup job - especially given that I might be the only one accessing the files in my account? 2. I see in at 12:41 in the Drive portal, there is a "Computer Backup" folder, but I couldn't see how that was created

Great video in general. I think that essentially this is more for sharing and collaborating. Despite each user has its own folder and cannot access another users folder (apart from "shared") any administrator of the NAS can still peek into the data of each user.

Great tutorial, worked for me on the first try!

Great tutorial! This is the backup system I wanted to use.

Nice video. Very helpful, very articulate and none of the erm erm erm Awesome thanks 👍

Great video, very clearly presented. Thanks!

Excellent video and clear instructions!One problem using Syn.Drive on mobile.You cannot set as default storage folder the Synology Drive app for your download and picture folders to be able to sync automatically.You have to use for ex DS file to upload them there.Using DS Cloud which is now discontinued was so much simple.Thanks again!

hi @wundertech. great video. can you describe how you manage file conflicts with multiple users accessing files through Synology Drive? Can you lock files or can you create conflict files so no data is lost or saved over?

Thanks for your efforts! The tutorial was very informative. However, I do have a few questions if you don't mind. 1. I'm pretty confused between "sync" and "backup." So, let's say I already synced my folder (from my PC) to the NAS. If something happens to my PC, can I still access those files from the NAS using a different or new PC? And then eventually, re-sync that same folder to the that PC you'll be using? 2. Can this be configured wherein the admin can access all users' sync folders while user's can only access their own? Thanks!

Thank you for the excellent tutorials! I just purchase and set up my first NAS for home use, a DS923+. It's purpose is reliable storage and backup of my extensive photo collection (amature photography). I've set up my NAS with an admin account as well as a personal account for myself and my photos as well as eventually my music collection. Of course as a beginner at this I'm sure I've made some wrong turns. At first I mapped my NAS to my old Windows PC and then my newer Mac Mini M1 which is now my main photo editing workstation. My NAS stays pinned in Win File Explorer but does not with Mac OS when booting but it is easy to reconnect. Editing files on my NAS works though I notice the speed difference. So, I've installed Synology Drive Server and tried to set it up, but I'm sure I've made mistakes in doing so. I don't understand the file structure at all. Whereas I can see my personal shared folder I created and mapped, I don't see where my synced My Drive folder is in Exporer or in Finder for files I've synced with my Mac Mini. I do see the photos I synced from my mobile phone. I need to understand what I've done wrong. I didn't see that folder check box your mentioned in the client that I should deselect. I wonder if that is the problem.

Great Video! Very detailed and helpful!

Very good instructions, thanks a lot sir !

Great video! My question is.. How do I set mirroring for the photos backup folder?

Hi thank you very much all of your video are very clear. Just to clarify synology drive only allow sync access within local network right? how can i sync my files when working from external network ie. working from home and my nas is connected to office network. Thank you

This is great, thanks for sharing this. Question, at 1:38 you said you have to enable My Drive. Why is this? I have a Raid set up that is separate from My Drive.

Also agree - Excellent tutorial. I am not watching my Documents folder from my Windows PC sync with my NAS. However, when I go to DSM 7 and access through Drive I do not see the Documents folder in Drive. I tried reloading window - but still does not show up. How to I see the sync'd folder in Drive?

Good video dude. Appreciate it.

I guess the benefit of this over OneDrive is that you can choose to sync your download folder, and also be able to sync much more GB. Other than that, it feels like it is the same.

Wow this is so useful! Thank you! I was scratching my head of how to use this Synology feature! :) question, is Continuous backup pretty much the same as Sync or are there differences? Also, I'm trying to setup a sync between my local folder and an existing folder in NAS but now it creates a Volume-myHardDrive directory instead of copying directly in my existing NAS folder, any ideas? thanks!

Thanks for this video and the other ones!

Great tutorial! Can we use Reverse Proxy like HAProxy to access Synology Drive? I would love to see the configuration

Thanks for the detailed tutorial. Using the Backup method you demonstrated, (Not sync) How can I create multiple backups? I backed up the music folder that I have on drive E. Now I would like to backup my Movies folder on Drive F. I do not see any option for "Create a new backup", on the Drive Client. Thanks for your help.

Your videos are very helpful. Many thanks for the efforts put into creating them. Is there a way to automatic backup of files created on my Ipad to my synology nas once I enter home and the ipad connects to my local network? Thanks again.

Your tutorial are always amazing and very well explained! I've learn a lot from all the content~ But I have a question and wondering if you can point me in the right direction for this~ I've tried to limit lan only access to the drive and configure vpn to get back in for external access... Which port would I need to open or portforwarded to Get Synology Drive to be accessible while having the firewall to lock down most of the access to lan only?

Awesome videos on Synology... I don't have the option to release space - is there a setting that needs to be set to open that functionality?

Found one thing it won't let you back up that's a must for me. I use an email program that has configuration files that are stored in Program files and Program files (x86). Those directories aren't in the list. Makes me wonder what Active backup for business leaves out.

Thanks for the tutorial. I tried installing Synology drive server, but it is no longer available in the Synology Package Center. so I googled it seems that the Synology Drive Server has been discontinued.

Thank's for the great tutorial! I don't enable the two way sync,and when i upload a file direct to nas it doesn't sychronize with my client pc,the opposite works.There is a way to enable it now.thank's you!

Great content - thanks. I'm still looking for something though. I want to create specific folders on the DS920+ as the destination sources for various backups. If I follow the directions of this video, everything would go to "My Drive". How do I set up sub-folders? I Need a "Media" sub and then subs within that for Photography, Video, and Production. Not wanting to sync, just want to set up a good backup tree structure. Thanks.

thanks for this, i do have one issue with synology drive and that is editing any ms office type files via web, it seems it can only be done by converting to synology types, i don't know if you have found a way around it, if so do share. Love the content!

Thank you very much...i start understanding. I have a very specific question: I went for the backup solution but i would really like to do the sync one. My problem is that my interest is syncing up my Photos from my Local drive that i work on with Lightroom and Photoshop. As i understood from another video on youtube this would really slow my performance as my nas would be indexing all the files everytime i work on them...is that the case?...i don't know if i'm explaining myself...Thanks in advance

Thanks for the video 👍 Quick question, can you backup multiple folders in two different locations? It seems backup only lets you run one task at one location.

Awesome tutorial, but I can't seem to configure the Synology Drive Server to auto sync one way between 2 Synology NAS devices in a local network. Is that even possible? This would create a perfect mirror of my main NAS.

Thanks for the tutorial. I am learning how to setup my Synology and this helps a lot. One thing I find a little scary with setting up sync and maybe a really dumb question..... will sync first look at the PC or at the NAS for files? So let's say I have a folder on my PC with 30000 pictures en I set up sync....will it sync the pictures to the nas or empty the folder with the pictures in it because the folder of the nas is empty? I am pretty sure it won't delete all the pictures on the PC but I wish it would be made clearer by synology.

my windows 10 was re-installed, but I can't install the synology drive client on my desktop computer. in the last step "finish", the icon at the right bottom disappears forever. Once I click the icon on the desktop, I have to re-install again and again, but never succeed. By the way, I had succeeded installing it before the win10 system re-intalled.

COMPLEX Question: I wanna mirror all of my Desktop PC files (4TB with music, pictures), and at a certain point 👉 I will switch to a Laptop with mostly projects/work files which I will want to mirror as well to my NAS, yet, it will be Asymmetrical since I won't carry all of that 4TB data of music/pictures with me on that laptop. So I don't want Synology to erase those 4TB from my desktop PC, since it won't "see them" on my Laptop. How can Synology Drive /or/ "Active Backup for Business" Apps- help me pull it off? Is it possible to have data that isn't mirrored and data that is mirrored at the same folder even?

Excellent tutorial! Is there a way to set up multiple backup tasks? - I would like to backup multiple folders from different drives to my recently purchased Synology and after creating on task for a folder, I can't see a button to create another task.

Great video thank you

@WunderTech thankyou for a very informative video. I do have a question... In setting on Synology Drive (especially for backup, thought the question should apply equally to syncing files between local PC and NAS), what is the limitation in the number of files that can be handled by Synology Drive? The Synology Drive Client seems to backup no more than 640,000 files, as if it is a hard limit. Is that the case? or am I doing something wrong? If it is a hard limit, what are the workarounds? (The files I am trying to backup reside on external usb drives.)

Is there a way to back-up a folder that's located in e.g. D:\Users\user\Documents\projects, to a Shared Team Folder, and not have sub-folders representing it's path? I was hoping to add multiple folders from different locations, but this looks like it'll make things less neat

This is great, thank you!

Thanks for the great video. So if I want a one way sync only. Up-sync in my case, it looks like I want to use the backup feature with the continuous option selected rather then using the sync feature as it looks like that only allows for a one way down-sync, but not up-sync. Is that correct? Thanks in advanced.

Thanks :) Synology Drive looks good but I didn't find the way how to do automatic scheduled backup of specific folder to My Drive on NAS without creating whole bunch of subfolders. For example - Lets say that I have "data" folder on C:\ that I would like to backup automatically on NAS to "My Drive\Backup\data". Is there any way how to do this with Synology Drive or any other synology app/tool ?

Hey thanks for the video! I followed all of your steps successfully! I would like to ask you: is it possible to have access to it outside my home network? Unfortunately, I can't use the quick connect feature and opted for this option as a solution, but I can't seem to do it. Would it be possible to point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance!

Hi, your videos are great and make it seem easy to set up Synology Drive, but being a complete beginner I'm still having a lot of problems! Maybe someone can help? I've set up a sync task with my laptop and it looks like all the folders in my documents have been transferred to the NAS. However when I open some of the folders they are empty, when there should be files and subfolders in there. How do I fix this?

Great explanation of Synology Drive. Is there an option for bare metal backup to the Synology NAS?

It would be great if the PC client allowed you to specify backup mode by folder instead of globally. I have some folders like the Documents folder where I want files sent to the NAS in continuous mode and other folders such as all those associated with Thunderbird sent to the NAS on a schedule. Have you run into this situation and is there any solution with the Synology software? My current solution is to use SyncBack (from 2BrightSparks) to back up the Thunderbird folders to a network mapped folder on the NAS. This works but I must buy SyncBack for each PC. Thanks

I initially created two shared folder for both me and my brother. Now I am confused as by activating home user, if I go to file station I have two different folder home and homes, and also the earlier created shared folder for each user. In homes folder there are folder for each user which I can access and there is no password protection or privacy ? My questions are as follows 1. How can we sync already created shared folder in drive ? and can we get rid of homes folder? 2. If it is compulsory to have homes folder, is there a way to put password protection to each home folder so that it can be accessed by that specified user and not anyone?

Thank you very much Bro you are a brilliant

Hi. Great clear tutorial! Is it possible to turn on my computer via NAS when I am outside of LAN?(something like wake on LAN but for PC from outside?) Best regards! Szymon

So I'm currently working remotely with a client who has a NAS synology drive with projects on it. I have it setup so the synology drive is syncing to an external hardrive so I can work on the projects and not worry about linking media. My external is starting to fill up. Is there a way to clear up space on my drive and not affect the NAS drive? I have stopped syncing files that I don't need but doesn't seem to save any space on my end?

Hi there. I'm using Synology Drive Client 3.0.2 on Win 10 and I often get the error that the SSL Certificate is not valid and because of this my synchronization from Desktop or other Folders to my NAS don't work. I have checked the SSL certificate multiple times, and it was still valid, I also deleted and created a new one.

Great video. Quick question. If I set up NAS access via a VPN and want to connect to Drive using a web browser, will I have to connect the VPN first?

When using the Backup Task, are the backups protected in case of rasonware? In other words, if the files are encrypted on the local computer are they then copied to the NAS backup and overwrite the good files? Do you have to use snapshots in this case? Thanks

I've set up a synch task with some photo folders. Some folders are synched without files and the menu bar icon on macOS seems to blink the whole time. Which problem could be there?

Thanks!

Drive Backup vs. ABB. Both back up Documents. What's the big difference? If using Synology Drive Backup for documents and ABB for documents, aren't I doing basically the same thing? Thanks

Great video, everything works perfect for me except one thing. I have a windows surface pro x....the only thing that is not visible on mine is: inside my sync folder, when I right click on a file, the drive option is not there, so I don't have an option to clear the file to the cloud only. Any ideas on why? Thanks.

Thank you very much for your very helpful video. If I sync my laptop and my NAS, the storage volume of my laptop will be large enough because I want to save many of my documents on my NAS. How can I store all my documents on my NAS without reducing the storage volume of my laptop? Thank you for your support.

I have question about deleted files from Drive, where i can empty recycle bin from my user home folder, on shared folder options in control panel when i'm logged in as administrator i can empty recycle bin for folder homes but that doesn't empty recycle bin from my user which has his home folder? Is there options to set up to delete automatically after some period?

Thank you for the video very good explanation. I have a question, is it possible to sync individual SubFolders in the Home Folder? Like if I want to do a structure visible to only me in My home folder. Can I somehow Sync for example on PC - Documents to > Home/Documents_from_PC?. From what I see its not possbile? So the only way how to do it, is create a Shared folder and give the access to this Shared folder only to me and keep it private?

What is the advantage(s) of Synology Drive over SMB share?

This video very helpful. But i got 1 question, how to unsync synology drive client from a device (laptop or PC) without data loss either from device or synology drive? can you help me, because currently i use office laptop to sync with my synology. But somehow i need to handing over device back to them. Please help me. Thank you.

I am trying to figure out why Synology drive does not sync all of my files. I have thousands of files on my PC. including documents, pictures, music etc. There are about 7,000 that are not synced. There are about 1 or 2 files in some folders that it would not sync. For example IMG001 to IMG078 would sync then IMG0079 would not sync. I tried to search for help lots of people are having these problems. Whatever explanation Synology has for not syncing such as name being too long don't make sense. On the other hand I use Microsoft One Drive it syncs everything, it has no problem. Can you suggest what could be the problem.

very nice Tutorial. i have a probmel with synology drive i dont know but the share folder my company create folders with pc names , for example: i have original folder '' accounting" and now: Hpdeskto-accounting, Delloptiplex-accounting . were is problem synology nas storage or settings synology client PC?

Can I use synology Drive to share a folder on my NAS with friends to work together on files, but I do not want them to sync their private documents to my NAS.

Hi. I followed your instructions months ago, and kept in syncro the data drive of my PC with the NAS. I've reset my PC (hence the OS drive, not the data drive that was synchronized via the Drive Client, which has been left intact); I've downloaded the Drive Client, opened it, but when I insert the Username and psw, it answers "Invalid QuickConnect ID or Syn Drive Server has not been enabled". Could you give me any suggestions? Thanks in advance

Question, On the Drive Client, I "unchecked" the box "Keep locally deleted files on the remote backup destination folder". I then ran the backup job, however after the backup completes, the locally deleted files are still on the NAS folder. Any idea why this feature is not working?

Great Video. Long shot, but if I want to change the directory (from C:\ to E:\) for where on my PC I want to synk my files. How do I do that? Do I need to first delete current connection, and then create a new one on the new harddrive? Seems a little scary to delete a connection...

question, when the configuration is sync(two-way), when i deleted the folder from my local pc, it will also deleted from the drive server. am i right?

I have 30 years of digital photos and was wondering would this be a good option to view remotely (on my phone) and share if I wanted to share a couple or an album on occasion. I have multiple backups on many devices so this is not a backup plan I just wanted an accessible copy of my desktop's drive? I bought the Synology so I could share through DS video and not pay Google for their services. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Can you sync the whole C: drive ? When I select the C: drive is says invalid folder. I wanted to create a backup and be able to see the folders and files without having to restore. Also when I try to create a backup task the C: drive is grayed out. How would I set this up? Thanks, Mark

Great video. However, something happened when updating to DSM 7, Drive Client for Win10 Desktop no longer connects.

I only want to sync a specific folder and it's subfolders within a shared folder using the Team Folder. Is this possible? The folder is 6 levels deep from the root of the shared folder. Do I have to create a new shared folder and move the target folder in it? Really don't want to do this if not necessary. Am I missing how to do this?

Is this for DSM 7.0? or are you going to create a NEW video for DSM 7 ? or will these instructions work fine for DSM 7? Sorry for all the questions.

Great video as always. Was wondering if there is a way to stop another user from editing the same document i am working on...something like "file is locked for editing, view read only". If two users are working on the same document at the same time then this would make conflicts or should i say it could create two versions while the aim is to continuously update the same document with the latest info if that makes sense. Is there a way to do that? Thank you.

Hi and thank you for great video. I also try to do the same with my DS1621+, keep all files on synology drive and keep the nas as the center for all files. However, since im using VPN, once in a while the external PC client complains about the certificate is not valid (or ”no server certificate method has been enabled”. Could you explain how to prevent this from happening? It feels like the VPN connection works great first, but after a while some VPN clients fails to connect to the nas. This issue kind of breaks the whole idea of using Synology Drive as the main hub.. :(

Thanks for this superb tutorial. If I may kindly ask for your help. I created a Sync Task with ShareSync of one folder in my PC (Win10) to my Synology Drive using the One-way Upload under Sync mode (Selected Upload data to Synology Drive Server only). All the PC subfolders successfully synced with the exception of one subfolder. I repeatedly verified under Sync rules that the particular subfolder NOT syncing is checked. I have tried to delete the Sync Task and recreate a new Sync Task but to no avail. The particular subfolder is still not syncing. When I open the Win10 File Explorer, all the subfolders and files syncing properly have a green check, whereas the particular subfolder not syncing has no green check. Would appreciate any advise. Many thanks.

9:23 does this work on ds418? because i tried configure multiple times the files from NAS will automatically download to client pc,i can't find configuration to make it cloud based only.

I just purchased a DS420+ with DSM 7 and have had trouble creating a sync task that would sync c:/.../documents and c:/.../pictures. I couldn't get the files to update on the NAS. I finally deleted all the references I could find that were created trying that. I found your video and followed the instructions, but things did not look the same. I skipped the sync task and went to backup task. I created a continuous backup task. Selected the two user on my PC, and did not uncheck any of the directories under them. The backup task works well. I then tried again to create a sync task. When I try to select the local folders on my PC, I see the users are grayed out. However, I can open the user and select a folder. When I select the Documents folders and click OK, I get the message "This directory cannot be synced because on of the subfolders in this directory is being used in an existing backup task. Please select a different folder. I tried pausing the backup task and changing the Mode to manual, but I get the same message. What have I don't wrong? Is it possible to have a sync task and backup task that copies the same folders to the NAS?