Synology Hibernation with Active Backup for Business and Tailscale

29th of March 2023

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Recently I’ve upgraded to a Synology DS220+, and with that started to use “Active Backup for Business” for Linux server backups. Along with that I use Tailscale to facilitate the private networking of these remote systems to avoid exposing everything involved to the public web.

While this setup works great, I found it would mess with the ability for Synology to go into hibernation. Luckily there’s somewhat of a workaround that’s fairly simple, although it took me a while to discover. The answer is to enable & disable both of these services using the “Task Scheduler” in settings where there’s a specific task type which allows stopping and starting of services:

View of editing a service task in Synology Task Scheduler

I simply set these services to wake-up at night for a few hours, while my overnight backups run, then have another task to stop these services again.

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