Intended Audience This post will be of interest if you want to use Resilio Sync to back up the camera folder on IOS 8+ clients to a legacy FreeNAS server (version 11.1 or below). A later version of this post using a modern FreeNAS server (version 11.2 or above) can be found here. Assumptions The …
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Resilio Sync Setup for Android 4+ Clients (legacy)
Intended Audience This post will be of interest if you want to use Resilio Sync to selectively back up folders on Android 4+ clients to a legacy FreeNAS server (version 11.1 or below). A later version of this post using a modern FreeNAS server (version 11.2 or above) can be found here. Assumptions The reader …
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Resilio Sync Setup for FreeNAS (legacy)
Intended Audience This post may be of interest if you are setting up Resilio Sync on a legacy version of FreeNAS (version 11.1 or earlier). A refresh of this post, which uses Resilio Sync under more modern versions of FreeNAS (version 11.2 or later) can be found here. Assumptions The guide is suitable for a small …
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FreeNAS Windows Share Permissions – FreeNAS Users Have Read Only Access
This post has been superseded by the post Create a Common Read-Only Share in FreeNAS, which better aligns with principles established in Administrator Access to Windows Shares in FreeNAS. Create media, a Windows share, which that can be managed with Windows permissions and that has the following qualities: Owned by a user called admin. FreeNAS users (as …
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FreeNAS Volume Setup
Settings for maximum space with redundancy for the volume named primary. Note: By default, RaidZ2 (mirrored RaidZ) is selected for a four disk configuration. Remember to select RaidZ1. Theoretically, for four disks, one disk is lost for parity. Available capacity will be 75% (three out of four disks). FreeNAS estimates the available capacity as 68.2% (16.37/24). …
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FreeNAS Gmail Settings
Configuration settings to enable FreeNAS to send alerts to Gmail. Under From e-mail, replace <hostname> with the hostname found under System Information. Under Username, replace <first>.<last>@gmail.com with the Google mail address. If you use two-factor authentication, remember to use an application password for Gmail. There are other places in FreeNAS where mail notification settings have to be …
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Give a Sluggish Laptop or Desktop a New Lease of Life.
Background I have a Samsung notebook with 8GB RAM, i7 processor and 1TB HDD running Windows 10. With those basic specs, you might think that the machine would perform reasonably well, Nothing could be further from the truth. The machine ran like a dog Investigation A closer look suggested that the system disk appeared to …
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SANDISK Flash Drive Review
Having just done a review of the EMTEC USB3 128GB flash drive, I was inspired to go on and check the performance of a range of Sandisk flash drives I own. The disk benchmarking software I use for the comparisons is CrystalDiskMark. For reference, I’ve used Officeworks pricing. I suspect better pricing is available if you’re …
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EMTEC USB3 128GB Flash Drive Review – Cheap, but not cheerful.
A USB3 128 GB USB stick for under AUS$50! I bought one last week. Too good to be true? It was. Don’t waste your money on this. In use, it seemed very sluggish. I thought to myself ‘Something’s not right’. I decided to investigate further. Running Crystal Disk Mark benchmarking software on the drive, what …
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