FREENAS USB BACKUP INSTALL
FREENAS USB BACKUP UPGRADE
FREENAS USB BACKUP FULL
FREENAS USB BACKUP PC

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FREENAS USB BACKUP INSTALL

At this point the system runs a reboot to load you in to the OS, rather than the install files themselves.Īfter the reboot (and every subsequent reboot), I was left with an error message, and forced in to the shell. I formatted all the drives, downloaded a fresh copy of FreeNAS, loaded it's install files to a USB drive and followed the install process from the beginning. I went back, deleted my volumes, booted in to a copy of Ubuntu I have on another USB drive and checked the partitions were all set up correctly.Īfter some searching and eventually running back through the initial install sequence, I discovered that I had actually installed FreeNAS on to my 2TB hard drive, rather than the seconday USB drive I had prepared earlier. I knew there was something wrong as there was plenty more space than that available, for sure. This is where things started to get a little interesting.įor some reason, I wasn't able to create any volumes or jails (a FreeNAS specific way of partitioning a drive for a set use), larger than 11GB. Once I was in to the GUI, I followed the set up wizard, secured the box, created my users, and began setting up several volumes to split among the computers in the house. The install went well, three fairly easy to navigate menus, a couple of on-screen prompts and I was golden. Loaded one up with the install files, left the other blank and booted straight to the install menu. I have a ton of USB drives lying around so quickly formatted a couple of those. Plus, it looks sexy as hell.Īfter I'd loaded the parts in to the machine (I didn't test run before putting the machine together, I was a little eager to see the finished product), I dropped in my 2TB drive, plugged in all the peripherals and booted it up to see it was all OK.Įverything I'd read about FreeNAS lead me to believe it was to be a fairly simple process. Once the new CPU arrived, I harvested the motherboard from my older, shelved, gaming PC, I had my current rig donate 8GB of it's RAM, attached the stock CPU cooler (It would do to start me off) and carefully loaded it in to my brand new Fractal Define R5.Īt the time of writing this, I only have one hard drive to load in to the machine, so it seems a little overkill right now, but I know it's going to save me a ton of time later.

FREENAS USB BACKUP PC

Putting this machine together was really easy compared to my gaming PC rig. | Storage| Western Digital Green - 2TB | The Build | Power Supply| Corsair CX 500W Modular | I needed a clean build with decent airflow, low noise, and I needed an easy way to add/change storage further down the line. The rationale behind the build I put together for this home server is fairly straightforward. After double-checking the requirements for a decent home server and some reading in to FreeNAS (at the recommendation of ) I decided to get to work.

FREENAS USB BACKUP UPGRADE

I had a number of spare parts lying around from my most recent PC upgrade so immediately I was on to a winner with building my own server. With that in mind, I ended up switching gears slightly and began researching the idea of building a home server. I wanted the ability to control backup schedules, manage my own RAID arays of drives as I continued to add them, and future-proof the machine to the extent that I could justify the hefty cost. To make sure everything was covered, I decided to invest in a NAS.Īfter a fair amount of research and poking around, I ultimately decided I really wasn't willing to part with the best part of £500 if the only benefit I gained from the likes of a Synology/Drobo style box was storage space. One thing it wasn't great for though, was backing up the other computers in the house and our ever-growing media collection. This was great, it saved me a lot of pain, time, and regret when my ill-planned backup schedule failed and I was left with 500GB of nothing on my Western Digital Elements drive. With Dropbox loaded up on all my machines, a 1TB storage limit and unlimited bandwidth, I pretty much ran my entire life from the /Dropbox folder of each of my computers.

FREENAS USB BACKUP FULL

A few years ago I'd pretty much resigned myself to pulling a full hard drive backup every couple of weeks, splitting it across a couple of drives (just in case) and repeating the process for each of my machines. Several times I've ended up losing data all together, through my own bad backup habits. I either didn't back up frequently enough, or poorly planned my redundancy. Backups have always been a double edged sword for me.

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