The aim of this exercise is to create shadow copies on personal FreeNAS shares at a maximum frequency of one every 10 minutes for the last 12 hours. The idea here is that my creative writing tends to be heavy and bursty, occurring over long hours in a single session. It’s on these occasions that …
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Personal Shares in FreeNAS
There are several advantages of using individual personal shares over home directories in FreeNAS. Refer to Home Directories in FreeNAS for more information. The trick in setting up personal shares is making sure they have the correct permissions set on them. Personal shares should be just that…personal. So they should not be accessible to everyone, just the …
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Home Directories in FreeNAS
I present home directories in FreeNAS as an academic exercise only. They appear to hold great promise. One of the benefits of home directories is that it’s not necessary to create shares for each individual. All that’s required is a share for the home root under which the individual directories reside. That’s where the promise ends …
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Resilio Sync Setup for IOS 8+ Clients (legacy)
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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