Category: FreeNAS

The latest FreeNAS video, Backups in Depth, is now available on Youtube and Vimeo.

The Too Smart Guys show has created a series of FreeNAS videos: Building a FreeNAS 8 Box – Part 1 Hardware  FreeNAS 8 – Build and Install  FreeNAS 8 EP3 Configuration

FreeNAS 8.0.1-RC2 has been released. From the Release Notes: This is Release Candidate 2 for FreeNAS 8.0.1….hopefully the last stepping stone to FreeNAS 8.0.1-RELEASE. *** IMPORTANT *** The image size increased in 8.0.1-BETA3.  The new size requires a 2 GB storage device.  The GUI upgrade can be used to upgrade a system from BETA3,  BETA4, […]

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 […]