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FreeNAS is an open-source network-attached storage server based upon FreeBSD and licensed under the BSD license.

Currently supports protocols such as CIFS (Samba), NFS, FTP, Rsync and others, and can use the ZFS file system.

More information at the FreeNAS wiki

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FreeNAS grub2 booting ISO

I've got usb-keys setup to multi-boot different Linux images. I wouldn't mind adding FreeNAS, and there's a doc with samples to add to grub.cfg menuentry "FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-x64" { insmod ufs2 insmod iso9660 #…
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ZFS Snapshot to file as Backup with rotation

I have a local FreeNAS system and want to use ZFS snapshots for backups. FreeNAS has the built-in Replication Tasks which use zfs send snapshot_name to send a snapshot to a remote system. But this needs a system with ZFS on the other end. I want…
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How can I stop ssh from trying to create ~/.ssh?

I'm working on an rsync-based backup for a FreeNAS system. Part of the backup process involves logging into the remote system that serves as the backup storage. Whenever I do that, I get the message Could not create directory '/root/.ssh'. I'm…
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Verify file integrity by comparison with original file

I'm copying 1TB of a FreeNAS Server to a USB External Drive, I'm doing it with "cp", and after the copy has finished, I want to compare the files from original files to the copy one. Is this possible?
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FreeNAS versus a regular (CentOS/Ubuntu) linux server?

I'm looking to build a medium sized (6TB, mini ITX board) server for personal use. Most importantly, it will serve as a seedbox and will store a whole lot of data. I will be accessing the data over my home network on a regular basis. I was looking…
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What is the purpose of group "wheel" on FreeBSD (FreeNAS) OS?

I am setting up a new server based on FreeNAS, a FreeBSD-based operating system. The system has a group, wheel. I have a vague idea that sysadmins should be added to group wheel, and that the group confers ability to use su (superuser). However, I…
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How do I allow user permissions to data on a Couchpotato and Sickbeard Plugin using Freenas

Trying to setup permissions for the plugins sickbeard / couchpotato. I’ve read almost every thread google / the forums have but haven’t really found a solution yet. I’m assuming it’s the data here: (Jail name)/usr/pbi/xxxxxxxxxx I tried: chown -R…
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FreeNAS 9.2: install FreeBSD packages

I have installed FreeNAS 9.2amd64 (based on the same FreeBSD version) on a VirtualBox VM. I created users and pool/volume for my data. In anticipation of installing apache/mysql-server/php5/php-myadmin FreeBSD packages, I read the following docs…
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Can't make folders with some names in FreeNAS Samba shares

I have a FreeNAS box with 40 or so SMB shares. Mostly works no problem. Except for this one share where I can't create folder sometimes based on the name of the folder. I noticed, because if I browse to the share within Windows and create a "New…
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Offlining a ZFS pool speedily and safely as a monolithic whole?

Much as the question says. Suppose I want to have the equivalent of a scripted "emergency button" for my FreeNAS pool - something that I can click to run from a GUI or execute in console/SSH, which very quickly closes everything that might be…
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how to pkg upgrade on freenas (freebsd)

I've installed a freenas server on a new server which I try to host on my own. Then I created a volume (ZFS) over 3*5TB harddisks. Last I logged in via ssh as root and tried to pkg upgrade all packages. This wouldn't work: [root@kfreenas] ~# pkg…
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How can I mount an Apple Time Capsule in FreeBSD (FreeNAS) as a smbfs share?

I am trying to mount a 3rd generation Apple AirPort Time Capsule share on a FreeNas box. I can connect to the share using smbclient and the remoteUser password. % smbclient -U remoteUser -L //AppleTimeCapsule Enter remoteUser's…
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Changing CIFS permissions on FreeNAS?

I'm trying to change some permissions on a folder. I'm running FreeNAS and using the windows permissions settings (not Unix). If I right click the file and go to properties and then security, it shows that the only person who can make changes is…
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How do I mount a UFS disk in read-write mode?

I have a system drive that has filled up to the last sector, so that it doesn't boot anymore. The file system is UFS (it's an old Freenas 0.7 installation), but since UFS write support doesn't appear to be included in any linux distro I figured I…
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List all network storage based mounted filesystems in Linux

My requirement is to find out all such directories in Linux which are mount points for network-based storage/file systems (like NFS, SSHFS, CIFS, SMB, etc) I did some research, and there is no utility command for that. The approach I am thinking of…
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