I’d like to add my android phone to sync to the same folder on the NAS but this is probably not possible to encrypt on the phone and on the NAS?
Have you heard of Rclone?
It might be an encryption solution for you.
Aside from being able to sync, it can mount cloud drives as mount points.
There are clients available for Mac Windows and Linux.
You can create a client-side encrypted link to the NAS. Then, As clients copy files to nas they will be automatically encrypted with a client side password. So long as everybody that needs to share those files is using rclone and the same password they can decrypt the files.
Rclone has a crypt feature.
Files and folders Will not be readable by anyone not using rclone with the proper password.
Rclone can run as a service on Windowa or Daemon on Linux.
I also use Rclone to keep my files on Google drive and Onedrive encrypted.
Here is the Android version of Rclone. It will be able to access the nas server and the encrypted files.
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I am familiar with Rclone but never used it before.
I would like to just automatically backup my photos from my android phone to a single folder on the Synology NAS. Can this be done with Rclone for Android?
Yes.
You’ll need to install the Round-sync software for Android. The rclone program on Google Play is called RCX. It’s dated, and has no auto-sync.
Round Sync IS Rclone running on Android. It’s actively developed and updated. The latest version is only a number of weeks old.
Here is what I use. It’s recently updated and has a very recent version of the rclone software. It’s hosted on Github.
Step one is to create a remote pointing to your nas server.
Step two is to configure a task that will be The actual sync command running.
Step three is to create a trigger which will cause the software to synchronize automatically based upon your choices you make.
If you have any questions configuring the software just let me know.
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Ok excellent. Thanks for the tips and I’ll post if I run into any issues.
One more thing, You can either “Sync” local to remote, or “Copy” to remote. You’ll probably want to use the copy command you can read about the difference between the two commands at Rclone-Commands.
The copy command won’t delete anything on the NAS.
The sync command will.
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Just for the record, you can encrypt the files on the phone the same way you have just done it on the NAS. You just need to use the Web GUI (available through the left slide-out menu) and not the app interface to do it.
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