dosborne wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 12:29 pm
I disagree. If you know you don't need an app, disable it, then remove it.
Well if you understand exactly what an app does, then you can of course remove it but most users think they know way more than they actually do. When you realize there was a thing that you missed about what an app did it's easier to simply enable it and still have it's previous settings intact.
Not only will you free up (Albeit minimal) resources (i.e. space)...
Yes "minimal" is the key word there. Most users have TB of storage and if those KB or even a MB are critical, then you definitiely should have expanded your storage long ago or have done a cleaning to remove unimportant data. If you after a month or so have confirmed that disabling an app didn't cause any issues for you, then go ahead and remove it, if those kilobytes are so extremely important to you.
...you also remove a possible intrusion vulnerability. A *smart* hack wouldn't care if *you* enabled or disabled a function, but would access the package or executable directly, or simply enable it.
In my world it isn't possible to do any of that until the intrusion have happened and then they don't need the dormant code anyway so please explain how a "hack" would access "access the package or executable directly" to
do an intrusion.
You can always reinstall an app, particularly a core qnap one. (Or even save a local copy of it first - to another secure location
)
You're not sure that you'll have the same settings if you reinstall a "core" Qnap app. My recommendation isn't meant for users that can backup apps. Those that really have the skills to do that
properly also have the confidence and experience to ignore my advice without complaining about it.
My advice is trying to save inexperienced users from themself. Many less experienced users have endless problems with their Qnaps and much of that is probably because they do unsupported things and mess with stuff they don't fully understand...
RAID have never ever been a replacement for backups. Without backups on a different system (preferably placed at another site), you will eventually lose data!
A non-RAID configuration (including RAID 0, which isn't really RAID) with a backup on a separate media protects your data far better than any RAID-volume without backup.
All data storage consists of both the primary storage and the backups. It's your money and your data, spend the storage budget wisely or pay with your data!