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In this step-by-step guide I am telling how I am creating repositories on my Synology DS210j NAS. It is assumed you have installed SVN using this guide provided by Synology. I am initially logging into the NAS using Putty. You have to enable the SSH Service under the Terminal section under the Network Services in DiskStation Manager 2.3. You can login using the root command. The password for this user is the same as the admin user. After logging in, you have to type the following command:

su svnowner

This will switch the current user to the user account running SVN. Move to the location of the repositories by providing the following command:

cd /volume1/svn

Then, type:

svnadmin create Example

to create a repository named Example. Navigate to the repository directory:

cd Example/conf

Modify the security settings for the file that contains the passwords for the users accessing the repository:

chmod 600 passwd

Now open an editor to edit the passwords file.

vi passwd

Go to the end of the document and hit shift+A.

Then add the following line, replacing the username and password with the username and password of your liking:

username = password

Now hit Esc and type:

:wq

followed by Enter.

Finally edit the svnservce.cnf file with the following command:

vi svnserve.cnf

Go to the general section and hit shift+A again. Add the following lines to disable anonymous login and specify which file contains the usernames and passwords.

[general]
anon-access = none
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd

Now hit Esc and type:

:wq

followed by Enter. You now have created and configured a new SVN repository on your Synology DS210j NAS.

In this article it is discussed how to set up a RAID-1 configuration using Synology Disk Station Manager 2.3, further referred to as DSM 2.3. Other RAID configurations are possible also, but are not illustrated here. In this short tutorial the DSM 2.3 is hostedon a Synology DS210j, but the DSM will work on other Synology NAS’ in a similar fashion. It is assumed that the NAS has already been configured properly and the next step is to create a volume. To do this, go to the section [Storage] and select [Volume Manager]. From here, start the [Volume CreationWizard].

Then click [Next].

Select the option [Custom] and click [Next].

Select the option [Volume] and click [Next].

Select all the available drives, two in picture above, and click [Next].

A pop-up specifying that all data will be erased. Click [Yes] if you have secured all relevant data from the selected drives.

Choose the proper RAID configuration. In this example RAID 1 is chosen, so the two disks will be mirrored. Other RAID configurations are also possible, but might require more disks (e.g. RAID 5) of offer higher performance, but no data protection in case of disk failures (e.g. RAID 0).

If you are sure that the drives are fine, select the option [No] and click [Next]. This will save a lot of time during the initialization and preparation of the disks.

Review the settings and, if everything is configured properly, click [Finish]. The wizard then closes and the file system is being created. This will take several minutes, depending on the size of the disks.