I have been running 2 Synology’s for quite some time now. The first one has 4 bays, and I loaded it up with 4 x 8TB drives. In a raid 5 configuration, that gave my just under 22Tb usable. I was running out of space fast and I was able to pickup another Synology 4 bay, but this one already has 3 x 2TB drives. This helped for a little while, but i was again running out of space.
Luckily with all of the Sales leading up to Black Friday, i was able to pickup 3 x 12TB drives and replaced them 1 by 1.
After Replacing the 1st drive, it took about 4-5 hours to rebuild the array. I then replaced the 2nd drive and it took another 4-5 hours to rebuild the array, but this time when it was done, it expanded the capacity to a little over 12Tb which took another hour. (Very Interesting… )
I finally was able to replace the 3rd drive and it took another 4-5 hours to rebuild, but this time at the end it restarted the rebuild. That time it took 3 days and when it was done, it Expanded the capacity again for another couple hours.
When it was all said an done, I had this one sitting at just under 22TB usable, but i still have a spare bay when the drives go on sale again.
I have been helping someone replace a bunch of computers on their network and decided to see if a could help speed things up a bit with a batch file.
Their Network is spread out across multiple sites and they only use static IP addresses. They refuse to have a DHCP server. This makes things fun….
I came up with a simple batch file that Allows me to setup the network and install apps and set the power settings. Here is how I did it.
Needed a Menu system:
@echo off
:choice
cls
echo.
echo Please Make sure you are running this as an Admin!
echo.
echo Choose:
echo [1] Set Static IP
echo [2] Install Apps with Office (Site1)
echo [3] Install Apps with Office (Site2)
echo [4] Install Apps Without Office
echo [5] Power Settings
echo.
echo [99] Exit
echo.
SET choice=
SET /P choice="What would you like to do? "
if '%choice%'=='1' goto 1
if '%choice%'=='2'goto 2
if '%choice%'=='3' goto 3
if '%choice%'=='4' goto 4
if '%choice%'=='5' goto 5
if '%choice%'=='99' goto end
goto choice
So the first option we needed is to set the IP Address Information and DNS. When the User entered option 1 then they would be prompted to enter the Static Address, Gateway, Subnet and 2 DNS servers. It then sets the information on the computer and shows the IP information to verify it was set. It will pause and wait for a Key Press.Then once a key has been pressed it will go to the main menu again.
:1
@echo off
echo "Please enter Static IP Address Information"
echo "Static IP Address:"
set /p IP_Addr=
echo "Default Gateway:"
set /p D_Gate=
echo "Subnet Mask:"
set /p Sub_Mask=
echo "DNS 1:"
set /p DNS_2=
echo "DNS 2:"
set /p DNS_2=
echo "Setting Static IP Information"
netsh interface ipv4 set address name="Local Area Connection" static %IP_Addr% %Sub_Mask% %D_Gate% 1
netsh interface ipv4 set dns name="Local Area Connection" static %DNS_1%
netsh interface ipv4 set dns name="Local Area Connection" static %DNS_2% index=2
netsh int ip show config
pause
goto choice
Next I have 2 areas that are to install Applications including Office. The difference is that We have 2 different Product keys depending on the site where we are installing.
First part of the Applications install is to create a directory if it doesnt exist on the local hard drive called Installs
if not exist "c:\installs\" mkdir c:\installs
then lets copy teh installers to the local computer
So based on the install selected, the next step is to rename the XML file to just config.xml. I actually used a copy command because that is how i like to do and I get to still keep the original one intact.
copy "c:\Installs\Office Standard 2013\Site1_config.xml" "c:\Installs\Office Standard 2013\config.xml"
Now that everything has been prepared, lets start installing.
Then we are done. It is super simple , but saves time on this project. The whole Script is saved as a batch file and Looks like this:
@echo off
if not exist "c:\installs\" mkdir c:\installs
:choice
cls
echo.
echo Please Make sure you are running this as an Admin!
echo.
echo Choose:
echo [1] Set Static IP
echo [2] Install Apps with Office (Site1)
echo [3] Install Apps with Office (Site2)
echo [4] Install Apps Without Office
echo [5] Power Settings
echo.
echo [99] Exit
echo.
SET choice=
SET /P choice="What would you like to do? "
if '%choice%'=='1' goto 1
if '%choice%'=='2'goto 2
if '%choice%'=='3' goto 3
if '%choice%'=='4' goto 4
if '%choice%'=='5' goto 5
if '%choice%'=='99' goto end
goto choice
:1
@echo off
echo "Please enter Static IP Address Information"
echo "Static IP Address:"
set /p IP_Addr=
echo "Default Gateway:"
set /p D_Gate=
echo "Subnet Mask:"
set /p Sub_Mask=
echo "DNS 1:"
set /p DNS_2=
echo "DNS 2:"
set /p DNS_2=
echo "Setting Static IP Information"
netsh interface ipv4 set address name="Local Area Connection" static %IP_Addr% %Sub_Mask% %D_Gate% 1
netsh interface ipv4 set dns name="Local Area Connection" static %DNS_1%
netsh interface ipv4 set dns name="Local Area Connection" static %DNS_2% index=2
netsh int ip show config
pause
goto choice
:2
if not exist "c:\installs\" mkdir c:\installs
copy AcroRdr*.exe c:\installs
copy ChromeSetup.exe c:\installs
xcopy "Office Standard 2013" c:\installs
copy SophosSetup-Endpoint.exe c:\installs
copy "c:\Installs\Office Standard 2013\Site1_config.xml" "c:\Installs\Office Standard 2013\config.xml"
START /W c:\Installs\AcroRdr*.exe
START /W c:\Installs\ChromeSetup.exe
START /W "c:\Installs\Office Standard 2013\setup.exe"
START /W c:\Installs\SophosSetup-Endpoint.exe
goto choice
:3
if not exist "c:\installs\" mkdir c:\installs
copy AcroRdr*.exe c:\installs
copy ChromeSetup.exe c:\installs
xcopy "Office Standard 2013" c:\installs
copy SophosSetup-Endpoint.exe c:\installs
copy "c:\Installs\Office Standard 2013\Site2_config.xml" "c:\Installs\Office Standard 2013\config.xml"
START /W c:\Installs\AcroRdr*.exe
START /W c:\Installs\ChromeSetup.exe
START /W "c:\Installs\Office Standard 2013\setup.exe"
START /W c:\Installs\SophosSetup-Endpoint.exe
goto choice
:4
if not exist "c:\installs\" mkdir c:\installs
copy AcroRdr*.exe c:\installs
copy ChromeSetup.exe c:\installs
copy SophosSetup-Endpoint.exe c:\installs
START /W c:\Installs\AcroRdr*.exe
START /W c:\Installs\ChromeSetup.exe
START /W c:\Installs\SophosSetup-Endpoint.exe
goto choice
:5
powercfg.exe -change -disk-timeout-ac 0
powercfg.exe -change -standby-timeout-ac 0
powercfg.exe -h off
goto choice
:end
