The September issue of BSD Magazine has an article describing how to backup the home directories on a PC-BSD system to FreeNAS 8.0.1 using Life Preserver. The article is on page 10-14 of the magazine, which is available as a PDF for free download. A PDF of just this article is also available on Slideshare.

Josh announced the availability of FreeNAS-8.0.1-RC1 last night. From the announcement: I’m pleased to announce that FreeNAS-8.0.1 Release Candidate 1 is available for download. Release Notes for FreeNAS 8.0.1-RC1 This is the first release candidate for FreeNAS 8.0.1. At this point, we are no longer including new features or functionality into 8.0.1. From here on […]

Though it doesn’t deal directly with FreeNAS administration, this course may be of interest to some of you as it describes the differences one experiences when going from a Linux system administration environment to a FreeBSD one. The course “FreeBSD for Linux Administrators” is one of the courses being offered at the OLF Institute as […]

Earlier this week, Josh announced the availability of nightly snapshots. The FreeNAS Guide describes these snapshots as follows:   Upgrading to a Nightly Snapshot Changes to FreeNASâ„¢ occur daily as developers address the bugs and enhancement requests reported by FreeNASâ„¢ users. A new version that incorporates these changes is automatically built every day and is […]

The FreeNAS 8 Forums now have the following RSS feeds, making it easy to see new threads in your favourite RSS reader: http://forums.freenas.org/external.php http://forums.freenas.org/external.php?type=RSS2

The fourth beta of FreeNAS 8.0.1 is now available for testing. If you test this beta and find any bugs, please report them on the freenas-testing mailing list. From the Release Notes: This is the last BETA planned for the 8.0.1 release cycle. This line was present in the BETA3 release notes as well.  BETA3 […]

Quite a few videos have been uploaded in the FreeNAS 8 HowTo Series. So far, the available videos are: How to Install FreeNAS 8 FreeNAS System Configuration Overview FreeNAS 8: Volumes Overview FreeNAS 8: Shares Overview FreeNAS: Network Configuration Overview FreeNAS: Active Directory

The third beta of FreeNAS 8.0.1 is now available for testing. If you test this beta and find any bugs, please report them on the freenas-testing mailing list. From the README: This is the last BETA planned for the 8.0.1 release cycle. *** IMPORTANT*** The image size has been increased from 1GB to 2GB. As […]

A video on how to install FreeNAS 8 in a virtual emulator is now available on the FreeNASTeam Youtube Channel as well as Vimeo. This will be the first in a series of instructional videos.

The FreeNAS Development Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeNAS 0.7.2 Sabanda. This is the Final release of FreeNAS 0.7.2 it improves its functions and the translations of the WebGUI. many things are updated and stability is improved. We hope you like it just as much as we do! Download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-7-Stable/ Upgrade […]