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Those who normally upload large amounts of data while away from home may have a problem with the cloud up-cloud or backup replication in times of home office. Similarly, family members may experience problems when they want to upload large amounts of data in parallel. To avoid this, there are various approaches, such as the available
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iXsystems has released FreeNAS 11.3, the latest version of the free NAS operating system. With FreeNAS an existing x86 system can be turned into a network attached storage with different plugins and shares. The ZFS file system is used, which together with the FreeBSD substructure offers a wide range of possibilities. I myself use FreeNAS on a HP Microserver Gen8
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So far I have used OpenVPN for the synchronization of my two FreeNAS boxes. Wireguard is a fast alternative, but a bit more complicated in setup. ZFS replication is a handy tool to keep data synchronized between two FreeNAS installations. The purpose of the whole thing is to create an offsite backup, where the data is also
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If you have set up a Windows share with FreeNAS, you can significantly reduce the time it takes to list the files in a folder. To do this, you need to pass some parameters to Samba. This can be easily done via the interface by setting "Auxiliary Parameters" for the SMB service. The listing of directories and
Read more >>After FreeNAS 10 "Corral" was a first - quickly failing - attempt to introduce a new user interface, now with FreeNAS 11.2 there is a new, AngularJS based UI. This is also optimized for mobile use. Apart from the web interface, there are a number of new features for FreeNAS 11.2, which logically continue the previous development
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For some time now, I have been using two FreeNAS boxes at two locations to back up my data using ZFS snapshots and replication. This connection should be additionally secured by OpenVPN. The idea: at both locations one Raspberry Pi each, which are connected via OpenVPN, plus corresponding static routes, so that the two
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The FreeBSD-based NAS system FreeNAS has been released in the new version 11.1, which brings several new features. The changes in the changelog affect OpenZFS, which is said to be faster, especially when processing snapshots and large files. In addition, the hardware support has been improved and features for cloud sync with Amazon
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If you use FreeNAS 11 as NAS or home server software, you can use pi-hole as well as pi-vpn to access your own network and reliably block advertising. PiVPN (http://www.pivpn.io/) is an installation and administration script for OpenVPN. Originally intended for use on a Raspberry Pi, the installation also works without problems on
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Those who use FreeNAS with virtual machines (I have e.g. the development environment for the blog theme in a Ubuntu VM) will want to use data from the NAS sooner or later. FreeNAS offers VT9P as a possibility here. The Plan9 file system requires some non-standard mount options. Although it can be used in the
Read more >>When you use a FreeNAS share with macOS, it creates different Finder metadata directories for each regular directory. To keep a backup to an external media as lean as possible, this data can be deleted, which is most easily done with a command at the Linux prompt: find . -name ".Apple*" -type d -prune -exec
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