Ben Parmater has written a multipart series about switching his NAS from FreeNAS to Ubuntu Server. The first part of the series describes a problem he was having with his hardware on the FreeNAS server and steps he took to fix the problems (random reboots):
I was able to run fsck (file system check) on the RAID array and get the darn think back serviceable again… but the reboots continued. What… the… hell. I started to go through my mental checklist of what could be going wrong
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
FreeNas Remote Backups
Joe Paetzel has written a script and instructions for backing up a FreeNas server to a remote machine. The method uses Rsync so that only the changes to the files need to be transmitted after the first backup is done:
The general overview of how the remote backup program works is like this. First the program connects to the remote computer and rsync’s all of your files. It’s setup so that you can have four different sets of remote backups all running on different days if you want. I
The general overview of how the remote backup program works is like this. First the program connects to the remote computer and rsync’s all of your files. It’s setup so that you can have four different sets of remote backups all running on different days if you want. I
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