You’ve probably heard us say a mix of “ZFS” and “OpenZFS” and an explanation is long overdue. Our Senior Analyst clears up what ZFS and OpenZFS refer to and how they differ.
ZFS vs. OpenZFS
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Category: FreeNAS
The former name of TrueNAS CORE, FreeNAS was the original iXsystems solution for cost-effective ZFS storage.
Backup Evolved: Asigra Plugin for FreeNAS
Hundreds of thousands of FreeNAS systems are deployed around the world and can now be used as a turnkey backup solution with Asigra! Users can run the Asigra Plugin for FreeNAS to enable fully agentless backup of all the devices on their network. Asigra automatically gathers data from desktops, laptops, servers, mobile devices, and even cloud sources. Backup data is compressed, encrypted, and deduplicated before being sent to your FreeNAS system for safekeeping.
Back Up Plugins and Jails on FreeNAS
For years, FreeNAS has offered functionality expansion through premade plugins and jails. In Version 11.2, the management platform was updated to make it even easier to manage and create new plugins. Going a step further, snapshots can also be replicated to other FreeNAS or TrueNAS systems to aid with disaster recovery and data protection. If there are replacements or upgrades to the hardware, these images and their data can be moved over to new systems with ease.
Make FreeNAS your Server OS
What if you could have a server OS that had built in RAID, NAS and SAN functionality, and could manage packages, containers and VMs in a GUI? What if that server OS was also free to download and install? Wouldn’t that be kind of awesome? Wouldn’t that be FreeNAS?
Overview of ZFS Pools in FreeNAS
This blog provides an overview of creating pools after installing FreeNAS. To begin, we are going to create a pool so storage disks can be allocated and shared. Head over to Storage, then Pools. This window lists all pools and datasets currently on your FreeNAS machine, and will not have any entries until you create a new pool or import a previously created pool. Click Add to create a new pool (or import an existing pool), then give it a name.
Run S3 Object Storage on FreeNAS and TrueNAS
The iXsystems Team discusses how to set up the S3 service on FreeNAS, as well as how to connect several S3 tools to the storage. With Plugins, Jails, Docker, VMs, S3 object storage, and cost savings of up to 80% compared to renting cloud storage, FreeNAS and TrueNAS are the perfect storage platforms for developers and web service providers.
Sync Files to Dropbox with TrueNAS or FreeNAS
Syncing FreeNAS or TrueNAS with Dropbox has many advantages. Here, we share a tutorial on how to sync files to Dropbox with FreeNAS and/or TrueNAS.
February Plugin Updates and New Plugins for Testing
Today we released another Plugins update to address some security vulnerabilities. We also have quite a few new Plugins that are looking for testers. Updated Plugins for Security Updates Before updating a plugin, be sure to read its hyperlinked Release Notes to...
January Plugin Updates
January has been a busy month for Plugins. Nearly a dozen Plugins were updated today to address newer versions or security fixes. We’ve also have a user-contributed plugin for OpenVPN and are actively looking for testers willing to install, use, and provide feedback...
Important Security Update for TrueNAS & FreeNAS
A new version of Netatalk (3.1.12) has been released that addresses a security vulnerability (CVE-2018-1160) for users of the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP).