Gmvault on Synology NAS

written by Daniel Schep on 2012-11-18

1. Install Python from DSM Package Center
2. Enable SSH
3. SSH in
4. Enable and switch to user shell (optional, requres user homes to be enabled)
   • set shell to /bin/ash in /etc/passwd
   • su - <user>
5. Create directory to store all of this (optional)
   • mkdir gmvault&&cd gmvault
6. Get virtualenv
   • wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/virtualenv/develop/virtualenv.py
7. Create virtualenv & install gmvault
   • python virtualenv.py venv
   • ./venv/bin/pip install gmvault
8. Backup Gmail!
   • ash ./venv/bin/gmvault sync [email protected]

Relevant Links:

• http://gmvault.org/
• https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv