How To Configure Your QNAP NAS with a Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS)
In this video, Craig explains how to configure your QNAP NAS with a UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) for a safe shutdown in case of a power failure.
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A topic often overlooked but so very important!
Having used UPS for years and years, and have been "saved" by power-cuts on several occasions, I strongly recommend using an UPS.
Even when your NAS-setup is not that large, it helps to protect your data-integrity when power fails.
(and avoids you of having to go thru the hassle of file-system checks etc when the power did fail without an UPS to help protect your NAS)
An UPS often will also give you some level of protection against brown-outs and filter-out mains-power issues et cetera.
QNAP does notify you, when selecting the UPS to use the "Auto-protection"-mode preferably, when using an UPS? (I have it set to 2 minutes)
For the timers, shouldn't you set the time(s) to (only) a few minutes instead of 10 minutes?
I guess it is any value that you feel comfortable with and(!) the UPS is able to sustain the NAS (on battery-power) when power has indeed failed.
(and hopefully eventually comes back)
What happens after the 10 minutes, will the QNAP still go in auto-protection mode or gracefully shutdown? (i.e. dismount the volumes and turn-off)
I heard that with ZFS (QuTS Hero) an UPS is particularly really needed/strongly recommended?
Whilst QuTS Hero is quite resilient & good in self-healing?
It could have been a quirk but in my set-up the network switch is not connected to the UPS and still the QNAP's do go into the said safe-mode when the power failed.
BTW, I did use USB mode (and USB slave-modes) for several years, which the said UPS (Dell/Eaton OEM) was recognised but not formally supported (i.e. not on the list you showed in the video) and eventually after a major (back then) QTS upgrade, no longer worked. Unfortunately, QNAP Support could not do much about it, as it was not on that "formal" list.
FYI, the (on-screen) Help-topic within QuTS Hero regarding the UPS section is referring back to the general help on your website?
With QTS it does show you a very nice extensive explanation, suggestions and help…
I have moved house recently and therefore, my home network was dismantled and its took me ages to get my network plumbed back in to my new home for a variety of reasons. Finally I now have my NAS back into my router and my pc sees it using the QFinder program. However, it is asking me to log in and I simply dont remember the log in details. When I search for my username, it says there is no such user. I believe my user account might have been deleted for whatever reason.
If I set up a new user, will I be able to then log back into the device and resume using the data on it? I dont want to lose the data on it be setting up a new user if there is something else I should do in my circumstance.
I just want to get back into it and use it as normal but without being able to use the email address I used to use, Im a bit stuck. Any help please?