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TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) is a network attached storage (NAS) server appliance distribution based on the FreeBSD operating system

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NAS4Free disk encryption and ZFS error

I have installed a NAS4Free on a VM, and as recommended, I installed it on a 1GB virtual disk, and assigned another disk 500GB to this VM for file storage. I have created the disk, encrypted it, created a ZFS virtual disk, and then a ZFS storage…
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Shell script to fix bad filenames?

I'm IT at my small firm; and, despite my dire warnings, everyone puts files on the server with awful names, including leading & trailing spaces, bad characters (including \ ; / + . < > - etc!) They do this by accessing the (FreeBSD/FreeNAS) server…
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FreeNAS: How to increase scrub 'threshold'?

My NAS box is set to default scrub threshold every 35 days. How do I change it to scrub every Saturday night? Do I need to create a cron job? I'm on FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-p2-x64 (11367)
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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 there's some things I want to install that don't…
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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 software based? I think my motherboard has a raid…
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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 better policies and management for me and for their…
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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) Server 2 - ESXi Server with the following VM's: VM1 -…
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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 all my datadisks to the freenas guest and use the…
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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 then everything works no problem. I have 4 * 2TB…
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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 does not support hard links. FreeNAS has a nice RAID…
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can anyone tell me how to create a directory in freenas /mnt/test for example

can anyone tell me how to create a directory in freenas /mnt/test for example
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filesystem compatible with freenas and windows

I'm planning on using FreeNAS (was considering openfiler but freenas seems simpler) for my home NAS box running off ESXI. I have managed to get local sata drives to mount in ESXI (ESXi add datastore without partitioning). I've had one of the drives…
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replacing buffalo lonkstations with FreeNAS, overall backup strategy, am I on the right path?

We've been using 2 Buffalo LinkStations of 320Gb each for shared directory and employee's server storage (around 20 employees). So only documents (word, excel, cad drawings etc.) and database backup of the main application server (ERP, Accounting) 1…
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share a folder on freenas with linux as wel as windows clients

we have a freenas as a file server. how can i share a single folder with both windows and linux clients.?
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Need help with Server Case + Storage setup?

I'm pretty novice when it comes to high end server storage hardware. Right now i have just a mid tower case that is running hyper-v with 2 guess instances (1 Windows 7 + 1 Windows Home server). With the bad news that microsoft will remove DE from…
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