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Connect FreeNAS and AWS S3 Service [closed]
I'm looking for a way of having my FreeNAS backup it's files to an AWS S3 bucket, using AWS Storage Gateway. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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DHCPD on FreeNAS?
I've got a FreeNAS install I've been using for a while, and wanted to set it up to serve as a network boot server. I downloaded and installed the isc-dhcpd-server, configured the tftp+iscsi+etc ...
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How can i share printer using freenas 7 or 8 [closed]
i would like to share my printer on my freenas server. i can use either 7 or 8 it does not bother me, however when i tried to follow some tutorials online and used some file that they said i got an ...
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Is it possible to run gitolite on a FreeNAS server?
We make extensive use of gitolite, both for code management and to host private SparkleShare repositories. I'm looking at building a FreeNAS storage machine, and got to thinking that it runs bsd, has ...
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grow/shrink a zfs RAIDZ
I'm going to build a freenas server, would like to make sure what I can do with such magical and advanced zfs.
If I have a 3TB * 5 in RAIDZ (12TB storage in total), now I am trying to add another 2 * ...
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What are the options for storing encrypted data on FreeNAS?
I'm looking at implementing a mirrored pair of FreeNAS servers as file repositories. The only question still to be answered is the physical security. I typically encrypt the underlying drives on all ...
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Ubuntu : Freenas like webui
I have been using freenas 8 for a while now, and it workt pretty well. But now i want some functionality now like a webserver, rtorrent etc. But i really loved the Webui of freenas. Is there a way to ...
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RHEL iSCSI on FreeNAS
I am able to mount a iSCSI SAN drive onto multiple RHEL Servers, but when I make changes to the files on SAN, they are not evident on the other servers sharing the same drive.
Am I missing something?
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Are there any PCIe SSD cards compatable with OpenIndianna (OpenSolaris) and/or FreeNAS (freebsd) 8+?
Has anyone had any success at all with any PCIx SSD cards around the 200GB+ mark under FreeNAS 8 or OpenIndiana? Specifically either of these platforms because of ZFS support for which we'd be using ...
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Esxi iSCSI slow
I have a server with ESXi 5 and iSCSI attached network storage(4x1Tb Raid-Z on freenas). Those two machines are connected to each other with Gigabit ethernet, and a procurve switch in between.
After ...
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FreeNAS not using all installed RAM
I have just installed FreeNAS 7.3 in an Alix.2 board with 256 MB physical RAM on-board. Nothing configured, nor hard disks attached.
The problem is the OS is only using 51MB of that amount. The graph ...
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How can I use rsync from serverA to serverB via USB hard disk drives?
I'm trying to syncronize two NAS remotely located. They run FreeNAS 8.0.3 and I've been using rsync to syncronize data over the Internet. The sync literally copies NAS1 to NAS2. Unfortunately, the ...
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FreeNAS box has slow network transmit speeds
I'm seeing some really odd issues with network speeds on my FreeNas 8.0.3 box. Receiving traffic is fine, but sending traffic slows down to 10-50kb/s, and stalls a lot.
Receiving:
Transmitting:
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Freenas 8 — cannot move files between ZFS volumes
My freenas 7 worked reasonably well. When I did a fresh install of freenas 8 it became impossible to copy or move files from one ZFS volume to another.
E.g.,
/tank/
/tank/content/
/tank/archive/
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Why has NFS suddenly started performing abysmally in FreeNAS 8
I've been using ESXi 5.0 quite successfully with my datastore provided by NFS share on FreeNAS 8. All of a sudden i'm experiencing terrible performance.
I've ruled out some things:
Hardware (FreeNAS ...
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ZFS and FreeNAS Performance
I have just set up an HP Micro Server N40L as a FreeNAS with 4 2tb drives in a RAIDZ. I am getting around 30-40MB/sec, with occasional bursts of 50MB/sec., reads and writes that are similar to the low ...
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Sleep/Suspend and WOL on FreeNAS
I am trying to figure out how to get FreeNAS 8 to sleep when inactive and, ideally, wake on lan activity (or, less ideally, wake on a WOL magic packet). However, as I've tried to search for ...
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ZFS RaidZ Import Failure when migrating
So my the USB drive attached to my FreeNas 7 system, went bad so I used the situation as an opportunity to upgrade to FreeNas 8. The problem is now I'm having trouble getting my ZFS to spin up:
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FreeNAS AFP Doesn't Authenticate
I just set up a FreeNAS 8.0.3 server and am trying to use its AFP (Netatalk) service to access it via a Mac OS X Lion system. I created the ZFS volume, set its permissions to include my user in its ...
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HP Microserver Mini-SAS Cable
I just purchased an HP Microserver I was planning to use with FreeNAS. It needed more RAM, so I tried to follow the instructions to pull out the system board draw to access the DIMM slots. Doing so ...
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Add file type restriction in windows share of FreeNAS
Does anybody know how to add a File Type Restriction in a Windows Share on FreeNAS
In other words, prevent a particular file extension like .exe or .bat is to be copied in to the share.
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ZFS Pool with Different Drive Sizes
I am planning on setting up a FreeNAS ZFS pool using two 2 tb drives and two 1tb drives. I would like to have data redundancy somehow. I read this post which seems to suggest my two options are to ...
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“zpool replace” hangs and locks up the pool
Given my four disk RAIDZ1, one disk has become physically noisy, not producing errors yet, but not sounding healthy either. So I've chosen to pre-emptively replace it.
I have done:
zpool offline ...
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Dell PERC 4/DC (PowerEdge 2850) and ZFS
I understand that ZFS prefers to have as much data about the drives as possible, and that the best thing to do is turn off RAID.
The hardware environment is a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with PERC 4/DC and ...
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FreeNAS vs Full Linux
I've been running a FreeNAS box for a few years now and have learned a little bit about the *nix architecture and command line in the process. I'm now running into the limitations of FreeNAS and ...
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How to implement cheap LFF 3.5“ SATA storage on a HP ProLiant ML350 G6 with 2.5” SFF SAS
In a series of bad, hasty decisions, a HP ProLiant ML350 G6 server was bought for file server use at my place of work. The intention was to build a FreeNAS 8 server using cheap 3.5" SATA drives.
Only ...
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Redundancy on the Freenas install itself?
I'm wondering what kind of redundancy I can put in place for the Freenas install itself. If the drive that Freenas is installed on fails, does that mean all my raid volumes are gone since its all ...
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NAS for Mac OS X Server
I'm using Mac OS X Server and want to allow the users that connect to their network accounts to store their data on a NAS drive. I want the users to connect to the Lion server as this allows for ...
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Backing up AFP Shares from my FreeNAS server
I have chosen to use Amazon S3 to back up my AFP shares from my FreeNAS server. What is the best / most efficient (automated) way in which to get my data from the AFP shares to Amazon S3. I have ...
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Turn server back on after power loss with FreeBSD
I have a VIA M'SERV S2100 with FreeNAS 8.
Since I upgraded from FreeNAS 7, the M'SERV no longer turns back on after suffering a power failure. As I remember it, there was a setting for it in the old ...
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FreeNAS 8 connection limit
I have an issue with FreeNAS 8 where if more than 20 users try and connect to the server at the same time the 21st cannot and the login screen will shake as if to show the user the password is ...
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Connecting FreeNAS 8 to Mac OS X Lion LDAP Server
I currently have Mac OS X Lion Server running from a MacMini and want to use it purely as an LDAP server for authentication for FreeNAS 8. I have FreeNAS setup and running on a VM, all features ...
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freenas storage in esxi to host vm's?
I have previously set up freenas as vm inside esxi using raw disk access. I was wondering if would be possible/sensible to get freenas to serve iscsi targets to be used for other vm's on the same ...
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Move data from root ZFS into child filesystem
I have a zpool (pool verion 13, FS version 3, called tank0) with about 2.5TB of data in the root of the pool (i.e. directly in /mnt/tank0). OS is FreeBSD, actually FreeNAS version 0.7.2.
I would like ...
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Acquiring new servers to run ESXi and SAN/NAS
Here is our goal:
Setup new servers to turn our entire physical computer network into 3 physical groups, which are:
Server 1 - NAS - Openfiler/NexentaStor CE/FreeNAS/(Other Suggestions)
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File permission mask/mode settings for Samba on FreeNAS?
I'm currently working on the Samba settings on a FreeNAS server. When any user creates a file or a folder on the server I want the file or folder to get the following RWX permissions:
Folders: ...
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What are the problems with running a file server (FreeNAS) in a VM?
I have a FreeNAS file server that uses ZFS for redundant storage.
I'm considering running this as a virtual machine using VMWare Workstation (I would give the VM access to the physical disks, rather ...
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Use Hyper-V guest os as san for vm:s
I'm looking into setting up a virtualization server at home. I have settled on hyper-v since I want to try remotefx.
What I'm contemplating is if it's possible to run freenas as a guest. Passthrough ...
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Is FreeNAS ready for the enterprise?
I am having a bit of split in thought.
I am looking at getting a NAS for my company, we need it for our VMware server.
Originally the idea was to buy a NAS (a Netgear ReadyNAS)
But then I got some ...
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Can I install FreeNAS on an old ReadyNAS 1100
I have an old ReadyNAS 1100 by Netgear. It has 4x500GB disks. http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/rnr4000.asp
Can I install FreeNAS on it? If so, can you please explain how?
As far as I can ...
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FreeBSD istgt - how to limit iscsi target discoverability to IP address
How can I setup an ISCSI target that is only visible to a certain IP address? For example, if a client runs iscsiadm discover from 10.1.1.130, I only want target iqn.2011-03.domain.org.istgt.ded130 ...
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Is it possible to use RAID-Z/Z2 and iSCSI on FreeNAS 8
I am trying to configure FreeNas 8 to expose an RAID-Z or RAID-Z2 volume via iSCSI. I have had limited success. If I delete the RAID-Z volume and simply expose a "physical" disk in the iSCSI setup ...
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Is FreeNAS 8 ready for production? or Any sugg. for a free fileserver?
I need a free fileserver solution mixed Mac/Win environment for the small print shop I work at. We are having problems with using SMB on OS-X (file w/o extensions are getting lost and weird SMB lag ...
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NAS software options?
I want to build a NAS that supports hard links (linux based, NFS?) due to the software that will use it. I need some kind of RAID in case of a single drive failure.
I really like FlexRaid, but it ...
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Can Tahoe-LAFS be used with FreeNAS (or OpenFiler) as a volume?
Is it possible to somehow attach a Tahoe-LAFS volume in to FreeNAS (or OpenFiler) and use it as part of a FreeNAS volume group?
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Converting from OpenSolaris (EON) to FreeNAS
I have a 6TB RaidZ ZFS array configured on my nv129 based OpenSolaris filer, and I want to upgrade to FreeNAS as painlessly as possible. I remember betas had warnings that they did not support ...
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FreeNAS vs OpenIndiana in terms of speed, driver availability, robustness?
This question related to NexentaStor vs FreeNAS
and Is FreeNAS reliable?
I have been using OpenIndiana / Illumos as the OS for my self build NAS.
There is nothing much to it:
Created ZFS on the ...
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NexentaStor vs FreeNAS
I currently have a Debian Lenny file server for my small network (4 machines). I have 4x1TB drives in a RAID5 config. Since I botched the Lenny-Squeeze upgrade, it seems like a perfect time to give ...
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Export NFS to multiple networks in FreeBSD (FreeNAS)
I'm trying to export a share to multiple networks using the following in the /etc/exports file:
/mnt/tank/xen_nfs -alldirs -mapall=root:wheel -network 10.1.1.20 10.1.1.45 10.1.1.105
but whenever I ...
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FreeBSD: how to associate disk serial numbers to device names when using a 3ware SATA card
When using a 3ware SATA/RAID card is there a way to associate the disk serial # with the /dev/daN device? I can get serial numbers by using "smartctl -d 3ware,0 /dev/twa0 -i", but I don't know if ...
