TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) is a network attached storage (NAS) server appliance distribution based on the FreeBSD operating system
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8GB of ram OK for FreeNAS ZFS 6TBx2 in Raid 1
Is 8gb's of ram ok for FreeNAS ZFS 6TBx2 in Raid 1 ?
Or does it have to be 16gb's ?
I only use this for home backup: images/videos/plex.
Thanks for any help.

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Lycom PE-115 firware update possible? Otherwise `smartctl` on FreeNAS reports errors
I have Lycom PE-115 SATA 3 2 Port 6Gbps Low Profile PCI-e 2.0 Host Adapter in my machine running FreeNAS. It seem have some trouble with SMART of SanDisk SSD Plus I connected to it.
I've seen reports people had to do a firmware updates for USB…

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Inconsistent SMB disconnections to OS X 10.11.6 client
I have an OS X client that is able to mount to SMB shares, but then arbitrarily disconnects. Sometimes the shares can stay mounted for hours, sometimes only 15 seconds. There doesn't seem to be any particular process that's causing the…

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NAS Storage -> what is ideal
I am considering building a many Terabyte NAS and using it with my production servers to house all the websites, e-mail, data, etc.
What is ideal? a Buffalo Station? A PC running FreeNAS and drives in that? I want something quiet. I have a Buffalo…
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should I upgrade Freenas security ?
I have a freenas server for almost a year now and this is the 3th time within the month that I've received a security email with allot of failed ssh log in attempts that aren't from me or anyone I know.
freenas.local login failures:
May 3 00:00:38…

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why does 'rsync --delete-before' delete files from target that still exist at the source?
I have a centOS 7.1 linux box with rsync 3.1.1. There are files there that I want to transfer to a FreeNAS 9.10 machine. For this I've set up an rsync daemon on freeNAS and transferring files works fine.
But when files get deleted at the source, I…

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Can't enable TLSv1.2 on nginx on a FreeNAS jail
I'm quite new to the FreeBSD environment, I'm quite used to the Linux one.
I've created a jail in FreeNAS 9.3 and installed nginx with ssl support following several online resources (googled "freebsd jail nginx ssl" or something like that) and a…

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FreeNas & Windows permissions
I'm considering deploying FreeNas on a stand alone server, with aprox 3tb of storage space, to act as a file server.
Is it possible to create folders on this and assign windows permissions to them. For example:
\IT\
- And assign the "IT" group…

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System fails to boot after successful LSI 9211-8i firmware update
So, here we go. I purchased a used LSI 9211-8i to use in my NAS. I installed the card, attached a few drives, booted the system, and everything looked OK. I'm using FreeNAS and there was a warning saying that my card's firmware and BIOS didn't…

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How do audit file permissions changes over CIFS?
I have a few windows file servers but am slowly changing to Freenas/ZFS boxes which are working much better however I can't figure out how to audit when people change permissions to critical folders.
On windows I enable object-level auditing via…

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FreeNAS Flash Drive Corruption
The flash drive that had FreeNAS on it was unplugged while the system was running. Now when I start the system, I get the following error:
GRUB loading . .
Welcome to GRUB!
error: unknown filesystem.
Entering rescue mode . . .
grub rescue> _
Here…

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NFSD lock up on FreeNAS 9.3
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2960 running FreeNAS 9.3, and a Dell PowerEdge 1955 Modular Chassis with a 5316M switch.
I wanted to get a faster link between the two so I configured a LAGG with LACP over bce0 and bce1, with the ports on the 5316M…

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Attached disk does not appear in FreeNas UI disks section, but after create a volume it does, why?
When I attach a disk to my FreeNAS it does not appear in the user interface under the disks section when I click "View Disks".
However, if I attempt to add a volume then I can select the disk in the volume manager and create a volume. Then after…

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Shutting down host from within jail
I've created a jail with ssh using Finch-Freebsd on a NAS4FREE and added a local non super user to access the jail via ssh.
I want to be able to grant this user limited shell access specifically to shut down the jail and in turn commence a shutdown…

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How can I backup FreeNAS with Amanda backup?
I need to backup FreeNAS with Amanda backup, how can I do this? I cannot find any plugin and I cannot think of how to do it.

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