 guys welcome back to my youtube channel this is daniel rosa here i picked up this um samsung galaxy a7 light android tablet last week and so far it's been super cool really happy with it now um what i want to do in this video is talk about if you have a synology nas on your network and you're using a um android smartphone or a tablet well how can you uh let's say backup files or move files up to the nas so that's what i want to cover in this video and i'm gonna be just uh uploading a couple of uh screen recordings i've just done here so first thing's first i wanted to show you guys the apps that might be useful if you put Synology into google play store you will find a variable labyrinth of uh Synology apps starting with ds file then Synology drive the ones that are useful in my opinion for uh what we want to be doing here our ds file is very good so this is basically for admitting your uh you know your Synology nas over the local network it's got functionalities for moving stuff deleting stuff uploading stuff etc now as you can kind of see from their screenshots it's not a wonderful it definitely lags behind dsm and its average rating is 3.4 there's a few things about it that i'm already kind of unhappy about and i'll talk about those in this video um there is tons of stuff Synology drive is for remotely admitting your nas as a as a as a as an access drive and ds video is useful too this will basically pluck out the video files on your nas and um just present them for quick streaming so this is great if you are the use case here would be you have movies on your Synology nas you want to watch them on your tablet and you don't have to go through ds file and you know pick out all the videos this thing will just present you your videos and say here you go so it's optimized for video playing even though you can actually do all that through ds file hope that was clear um so those are the two i have on uh no let's talk about let's talk about this uploading process so what you can do let's go into ds file now i've already logged in and to do that you just need the ip address of the nas you need your username and password and you will be uh you will be good to go so this is the uh volume i've set up no not youtube backup it is i get confused by all these volumes i've created video backup so this is a volume on my nas where like i'm backing up my youtube videos basically um and i want to keep a original copy of everything i do pretty much um the because youtube compress this stuff so you think okay how can i add a file for my android tablet so you'd go on the thing you'd click on add and you'd go on to upload now i get stuck on this screen where it presents me with my file managers of which i have a couple and uh whether they have file access and i'm like yep they have file access all good and it just doesn't allow me to really get further it just kind of rotates like this so i don't know if i'm missing something i probably am um to me that's not an intuitive ui there should be you know i should it should just use my default file manager show me the internal android storage and hit another button upload and boom we're done it goes up to the nas so i don't know if that can work if you know how to do it leave me a comment the work around that i figured out is this so using one of those file managers in this case i'm using um i'm using files by google and this is a video that's up on youtube and i'll say i want to back this guy up uh so this particular screen recorder dumps its files into internal storage movie 1v recorder and here is the mp4 i want to upload so what i want to do here is you can actually do copy to and you can add the nas um just into google files or you can kind of use the other app so i'm going to do it that way so click on share whoops i exited too quickly so it's a little bit laggy let's do that again all right this is one of my friends in irland i'm sure he'll be thrilled to be featured in this youtube video um ds file and now we're working through the file structure of the uh synology and boom we're done so now i just hit done and now finally our files uploading to the nas now it's about a 54 megabyte file as you saw and we're moving this over the local network obviously my tablet is connected via wi-fi so you're not going to be getting exactly the top data transfer speeds you might have if this was an ethernet device uploading to another ethernet device but there we go uh that's finished so it looks like it's up there so now let's verify this and i go into video backup and there i have it my uh screencast is there and i can just verify that that's the right file thank you you guys very much for watching uh more videos coming soon