Comments on: Backup Evolved: Asigra Plugin for FreeNAS

By: Fred Buecker

Fred Buecker — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:30:32 +0000

Limited to 1TB even though we are using our own local FreeNAS/TrueNAS devices?

By: Sander

Sander — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:01:56 +0000

hi ive followed all the steps and have problems with the licens vertification. Annybody now what to do here ?

By: phil

phil — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 18:44:15 +0000

In reply to Jason Rose. Hi Jason, As I wrote that unfortunately does not work. I get an authentication error. I tried it twice with different registration credentials. Any idea why?

By: Stuart Quimby

Stuart Quimby — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 19:21:06 +0000

In reply to shane. The DS-Operator requires Java Web Start, which is no longer included in Java11. Install openjdk8 and the icedtea plugin

By: Georgi Anastasov

Georgi Anastasov — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 12:43:37 +0000

You are absolutely right Dan. I think that all leading software companies must have Linux VM appliance especially for backing up VMs. FreeNAS is very useful and stable as a backup repository for VMs. If Asigra decide to release VM Appliance, I probably will start using it.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 19:47:36 +0000

In reply to Georgi Anastasov. Thanks, and it's too bad they don't have an appliance. Shouldn't be too hard, though, to install it in a Linux VM.

By: Georgi Anastasov

Georgi Anastasov — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 07:42:08 +0000

In reply to Dan. When you register in Asigra by right click on the plugin, you will receive by e-mail link to download DS Client and documentation in iso format. So you have to mount this iso to read documentation and install the client. I do not see in iso prepackaged appliance.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 07:10:06 +0000

So the plugin installs the DS-Operator/DS-System, and you note above that the DS-client needs to be installed on another system or a VM. So where can we obtain the DS-client? Because a quick web search hasn’t found it available for download (and the most promising hit, on http://ftp.asigra.com, is on a server whose name doesn’t resolve). Is there a prepackaged appliance we could use in our hypervisor of choice? An ISO that will install such an appliance? Or is it up to us to install our base OS of choice and then install and configure the DS-client?

By: Georgi Anastasov

Georgi Anastasov — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 20:47:51 +0000

I install plugin and register it to Asigra. When start DS-Operator and try to connect to DS System service with credentials from Asigra I have authentication error. So nothing can be tested or used.

By: busthead

busthead — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 10:42:41 +0000

JAVA?!? :O=

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:37:01 +0000

I upgraded FreeNas to FreeNAS-11.2-U4.1 and tried to install Asigra plugin using DHCP and Static IP but neither works . I get the following error:
DEFAULT] Exception: CallError:[EFAULT] pkg error: – pkg-static: /var/db/pkg permissions (0775) too lax Please check your network occured, destroyed asigra
Changed the permission to 700 on /var/db/pkg owner is root, group is wheel but still the same error occurs. Anyone have additional suggestions?

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 10:15:57 +0000

In reply to Philip Robar. THis is exactly what I think, so bye-bye Asigra plugin.

By: Philip Robar

Philip Robar — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:33:49 +0000

The 1 TB limit on storage space makes the free license of limited usefulness. This is mostly a demo teaser.

By: Ruud

Ruud — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 06:31:57 +0000

In reply to Jason Rose. I did that, but it's not working and i don't know whats going wrong. But i will look further in to it..

By: James Beams

James Beams — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 02:31:15 +0000

I wish I could say setup was a breeze, but it sure has not been that way. DHCP didn’t work when installing the plugin, so I set it up with static IP, went thru registration (which requires a company name that must not be previously registered), and did password recovery to set a password. Then I had to install java as well as bypass java’s security measures to run a java application (maybe a sign that this shouldn’t really be done in java?). The app opened and the only server showing was 127.0.0.1 in red which apparently means unavailable. After adding the static IP under Setup -> Initialization, assuming the default port was OK, and having to check the “Use UDP” option, I finally see the “asigra” server in the list. When clicking on the checkbox I am then at a login prompt that I don’t know the login for. I tried the previously created registration username and password with no luck. This is where I am now stuck.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 19:45:03 +0000

Just installed the plugin and registered it.
In the e-mail, it says:
“As a FreeNAS user, your free usage offer includes 10 Physical Machines, 10 Virtual Machines, 10 SaaS Accounts (0365 Mailboxes, or OneDrive, or SharePoint, or Salesforce or Gsuite accounts), 10 VM Replication machines and 1 TB of local storage.”
Did I understand it correctly?
Even though I have more than 1TB space on my FreeNAS, I will be able to use 1 TB only for storing my data???
If this is the case then I will say Good Bye to Asigra.

By: majerus

majerus — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 21:21:04 +0000

If you cannot login to the thing use root/root
https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/asigra-first-time-run-show-error-404.76904/#post-535006

By: karim

karim — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:50:27 +0000

In reply to Ruud. You need to create this .... with register option

By: Jason Rose

Jason Rose — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:58:33 +0000

In reply to Octavio. I believe this issue has been addressed in the latest update of the plugin. I'd suggest running a plugin update and giving it another try. I would also recommend you set a static address for your plugin or a DHCP reservation.

By: Jason Rose

Jason Rose — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:56:18 +0000

In reply to Ezequiel Mc Govern. It looks like your plugin install got messed up somehow and it's still pointing to our internal test servers. I'd suggest uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin (which has now been updated with some bug fixes).

By: Jason Rose

Jason Rose — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:52:23 +0000

In reply to Ivan Peters. The plugin should be fully functional now! You will want to set a static IP address in the plugin's configuration or configure a DHCP reservation on your router for best results.

By: Jason Rose

Jason Rose — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:51:11 +0000

In reply to shane. Everything should be working now! You'll need to either use a static IP address or set a DHCP reservation on your router for best results.

By: Jason Rose

Jason Rose — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:50:20 +0000

In reply to Ruud. You’ll have to register the plugin with Asigra to get a login information. You can do this by clicking the ‘Register’ button on the plugin’s configuration menu (the three dots on the plugin page).

By: Jason Rose

Jason Rose — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:50:01 +0000

In reply to Phil. You’ll have to register the plugin with Asigra to get a login information. You can do this by clicking the ‘Register’ button on the plugin’s configuration menu (the three dots on the plugin page).

By: Jason Rose

Jason Rose — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:49:19 +0000

In reply to Phil. The plugin will set all up storage for the DS-System database and application during the install process. You'll also want to share some space with the plugin for the backup data. Once you're in DS-Operator, you can point it to this shared directory in the plugin's jail.

By: Jason Rose

Jason Rose — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:44:15 +0000

Hi Rudd! You’ll have to register the plugin with Asigra to get a login information. You can do this by clicking the ‘Register’ button on the plugin’s configuration menu (the three dots on the plugin page).

By: Joon Lee

Joon Lee — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:08:26 +0000

In reply to Gary Adams. Thank you for your support, Gary!

By: Ruud

Ruud — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:22:05 +0000

Everything seems to work, but i can’t connect to the DS-Operator. He is asking for an user name and password.
Don’t know what the user name and password is.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 01:59:24 +0000

A bug was filed and it would appear that it has been fixed as I was able to install myself today. Still configuring but I set the IP static… here is the bug report
https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-102054

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:29:58 +0000

Do I stil need to setup local storage for the Plugin?

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:29:08 +0000

Hi, Any idea where I can get the login credentials from? Doesn’t work with the passworrd I created online. Though that should be a local password anyway… but where do I get it?

By: Max c

Max c — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:15:15 +0000

In reply to karim. Hi, I tried my solution in a new Asigra Jail and now like you the /usr/local/www/asigra folder is empty. They must have changed the Plugin since my first try but now the messed up another part of the plugin. Like they say third time's the charm.

By: shane

shane — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 09:45:28 +0000

Anyone @ Asigra & Ixsystems have an update on the asigra plugin issue?
I would love to trial it on freenas with a view of implementing it at specific client sites if any good?

By: karim

karim — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 08:30:19 +0000

In reply to Max c.

Hello,
I’m freenas newbie user (and freebsd too) , it will be very helpfull if you could explain your method , point by point.
I’m linux user and i’m little disappointed by shell option of freenas.
I know how to access but i can’t find DSOP.jnlp or /usr/local/www/asigra .
Thanks

By: Ivan Peters

Ivan Peters — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 23:54:02 +0000

Looks like everyone is having the same problem. I, unfortunately am not a sophisticated enough user to be able to implement the fixed IP address suggestion (I don’t know how to work in the shell to edit that) so we are stuck for now. Love to get this going as I have been waiting for a long to time replace my Windows Home Server!!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 18:29:42 +0000

I get this in my install and I am on the newest freenas updated today..
install Failed to install the following 1 package(s): /root/dssystem-14.1.txz
therefore I cannot access the DSOP.jnlp file because it didn’t get installed .. no management … 2 different freenas installs one at home one at work both same version both same issues.

By: Donald Johnson

Donald Johnson — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 21:52:40 +0000

In reply to Octavio. I am getting the same error

By: Ezequiel Mc Govern

Ezequiel Mc Govern — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 19:34:30 +0000

Actually the directory /usr/local/www/asigra is empty
fetch: http://builds.ixsystems.com/ix-iso/asigra/14.1-20190301/DS-Operator.zip:No route to host
The package for download are missing 🙁

By: Lukas

Lukas — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 17:34:19 +0000

In reply to Octavio. I have the same issue: 404 Not Found nginx/1.16.0

By: Joshms

Joshms — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:40:53 +0000

In reply to Ivan Peters. This may be related to a known issue posted above. Make sure to check out the static IP workaround and see if that helps to fix your issue.

By: Joshms

Joshms — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:40:04 +0000

In reply to J. Thank you for letting us know about the issue. We've passed on your feedback to the development team. In the meantime, make sure to check out the static IP workaround posted above.

By: Joshms

Joshms — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:39:39 +0000

In reply to Max c. Thank you for letting us know about the issue. We've given your feedback to the development team.

By: Steve M

Steve M — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 08:34:47 +0000

This is awesome! Thanks!

By: Octavio

Octavio — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 01:39:00 +0000

I’ve followed the steps but the management application is not download from FreeNas.
http://192.168.1.180/asigra/DSOP.jnlp 404 Not found.

By: Ivan Peters

Ivan Peters — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 01:03:37 +0000

thrilled with this addition to my FreeNas but….
In following the installation steps, when I get to “select “management”” and do so I get an error from the installation of the DSOP.jnlp app “Unable to launch the application”.
have looked through all the installation instructions, Forum, etc. nothing found. Help please?
when I click on details I get the following:
com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: http://192.168.XX.XXX:8080/CDPA/dsoper/DSOP.jnlp
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.downloadResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.cache.ResourceProviderImpl.getResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.cache.ResourceProviderImpl.getResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.updateFinalLaunchDesc(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.access$000(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.connect0(Native Method)
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect0(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivilegedWithCombiner(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.access$200(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$9.run(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$9.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivilegedWithCombiner(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.HttpUtils.followRedirects(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doRequest(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doGetRequestEX(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.downloadResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.cache.ResourceProviderImpl.getResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.cache.ResourceProviderImpl.getResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.updateFinalLaunchDesc(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.access$000(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

By: J

Wed, 05 Jun 2019 21:54:22 +0000

Doesnt seem to work for me. After launching the java client I get an error below. The jail is configured to use dhcp and address 192.168.1.176 but for some reason its referencing 192.168..50.142 which I have no idea what that is.
com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: http://192.168.50.142:8080/CDPA/dsoper/DSOP.jnlp

By: Rafael Domingos Braz Soares

Rafael Domingos Braz Soares — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 21:43:03 +0000

Do you have backup vmware support?

By: Max c

Max c — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 19:35:49 +0000

Just tried it an the IP address and file path of the Management option are hardcoded and wrong.
I opened shell on the Asigra jail and modified the DSOP.jnlp in /usr/local/www/asigra. I put in the IP addres of my jail and the the right path like this http://10.0.0.182/asigra and it now works.

By: Gary Adams

Gary Adams — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:57:47 +0000

Awesome addition to FreeNAS. Well done.