Jotta-cli on synology

jotta-synology.md

Jotta-cli on Synology NAS

Setup

1. Add jottad as a user and group in the web interface
2. Download jotta-cli
3. sudo tar -xf jotta-cli_xxx_linux_arm64.tar.gz
4. sudo mv etc/jottad /etc/
5. sudo mv usr/share/jottad /usr/share
6. sudo mv usr/bin/jotta* /usr/bin
7. sudo /usr/share/jottad/install.sh
8. 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

updata-jotta.sh

#!/bin/sh

JOTTA=$1

sudo systemctl stop jottad

sudo tar -xf "$JOTTA"

sudo rm -rf /etc/jottad
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/jottad
sudo rm -rf /usr/bin/jotta*

sudo mv ./etc/jottad /etc/
sudo mv ./usr/share/jottad /usr/share
sudo mv ./usr/bin/jotta* /usr/bin
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/jotta*

sudo systemctl start jottad