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Jotta-cli on synology

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Jotta-cli on Synology NAS

Setup

Add jottad as a user and group in the web interface
Download jotta-cli
sudo tar -xf jotta-cli_xxx_linux_arm64.tar.gz
sudo mv etc/jottad /etc/
sudo mv usr/share/jottad /usr/share
sudo mv usr/bin/jotta* /usr/bin
sudo /usr/share/jottad/install.sh
sudo chown -R jottad:jottad /var/lib/jottad/

Starting

Start with sudo systemctl start jottad

Stopping

Stop with sudo systemctl stop jottad

Usage

Limit jottad from eating up all resources:
jotta-cli config set slowmomode 1
Add folders to watch:
jotta-cli add /volume1/Erik/mbp.sparsebundle
Pause jotta-cli for 8h: jotta-cli pause 8h
View progress: jotta-cli observe

Automatic start/stop at midnight/morning

In the Synology web interface go to Control Panel -> Task Scheduler and add a task for user jottad:

General		Schedule		Task Settings
Name:	description	Run on:	Daily	Run command:
User:	jottad	Time:	07:00	`/bin/jotta-cli pause 17h`

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