Hello Everybody, I just set up my FreeNAS Server a few weeks ago and of I course I haven't run out of storage yet ;) But lets imagine I don't have any storage left, how can I "add" storage ? I know that I can't just add a new HDD to my zpool but can I replace a 8 tb HDD with an empty 10 tb HDD...

Hallo everybody, I just Built my own FreeNAS Server With the following components: - 32GB Reg ECC RAM (RDIMM) By Kingston - Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 - Asus X99-E WS First of all i just want it to use as a file server to store all my data and protect them against bit rot (and I’m also running a...

So I was trying to reinstall Radarr on my NAS as my previous version had broken when i updated some of the packages. After messing up with the install for the first time i tried to delete the jail in the iocage folder via ftp then removed the dataset via the WebGUI. After removing the jail, I...

I'm using replication to back up one FreeNAS 9.10 server (call it alpha) to another (call it beta). All that appears on beta is an empty directory tree. No files! I followed the User Guide, setting it up. I made sure all old snapshots on both alpha and beta were destroyed. The Status field on...

I'm going to be implementing rsync to push data offsite. I have a FreeNAS Mini XL 32TB onsite and an identical FreeNAS Mini XL offsite. Besides the hostname, IP, network settings, etc., do the two NAS units need to be identical? Should I just have a clean slate for the pull NAS? Do I need to...

Hello everyone! I just wanted to get some opinions on the storage setup in an ownCloud jail to prevent data loss as well efficiency? I personally created a ZFS dataset called ownCloud then used /mnt/zpool/ownCloud as my Source and /media/me/files as my Destination in the ownCloud jail storage...

UPDATE @ 2019-01-08: The cause for the issue described below is now known to be an unreported severe effect of ZFS space map (free space log) handling in some situations. Comprehensive info is on the ixsystems "redmine" bug tracker. Basically, ZFS is known to have an issue with free...

Hello all, I have tried searching for help on this forum and many others but never really found a good answer for my needs. I am running FreeNAS 11.1 on vmware 6.0. I Started out with a 2TB Disk for it months ago and now it is getting full. I picked up another 4TB NAS drive on sale and added it...

Long story short, I have a single 750GB HDD I used as a Time Machine back up running FreeNAS 9.0. I wiped my Mac laptop, reinstalled the stuff I wanted from the TM backup and wiped the TM backup for a new fresh start. I wiped the TM backup by destroying the dataset for it and creating a new one...

I have been running freens on my fileserver almost a year now. I originally installed it with 9.10 and updated to 11.0 after going to Corral and reverting back. No issues so far. Today I notice that 11.1 is out and I update my 11.0-U4 install. After boot I log in and I see a critical notice that...

Build FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201509022158 I'm having an issue re-importing my volumes after reinstalling FreeNAS on a new flash drive. I tried using "Import Volume" through the Web GUI and no volumes were recognized. The volume I'm trying to import is labeled "CYAS". I ran the following commands...

Buongiorno a tutti! ;) I know that FN (or BSD) not update in live the space available/used in the STORAGE section... From 3 weeks i continue to receive the warning of the 80% of space used. The problem is that the real used space has been reduced more than 3 weeks ago. I have already performed...

Here are the drives I have at my disposal. I have 3 machines each capable of holding a max 12 drives. Currently I have 12x2TB drives in a Raidz2 which is ok but performance is lack luster. Most of the files are videos and are not accessed often. My current archive is 12.3TB and I would like to...

Hi Guys i am just setting up my first nas and i have 3x2tb WD red and 1x3TB WD red Drive and looking to create a large array to use but want to have redundancy so i dont lose data of a drive fails. can someone guide me please? cheers in advance.

Hi, Built my first FreeNAS. Here is the hardware list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/b/NbpG3C I installed SSD just for jails (for better transcoding) I initially had some Media on the SSD (when i was testing the FreeNAS)....which I want to copy over to my new NAS drives. The speed I am getting...

Hey folks, ich versuche mein Galaxy S8 an mein FreeNAS Server als Speichermedium anzuschliessen. Mein vorhaben ist, Daten per USB3.0 oder USB3.1 schneller auf mein Gerät drauf zu schieben. Leider finde ich keine passende Lösung für mein Vorhaben. Ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn ihr mir mit...

Hello, This is a very new installation of freenas 11. This machine is doing backups from a remote NAS using replication task, no sharing, no VMs, only a pool with the replication data. I have a lot of snapshots replicated here, i can see data also. But suddenly, this message is appearing in...

iv'e read the article https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/how-to-setup-freenas-8-for-use-as-a-virtual-san.2141/ but the page cannot be visited, maybe something wrong with my internet. anyways.. How do i configure V-SAN in freenas? Or are there any threads here? i only found one which...

Hello, I have had drives fail in the past. Replace the drive and replace via GUI. Simple enough. This situation is a little different. I am confused if the drive has actually failed or FreeNas got stuck replacing a drive. From the "view disk" page, it shows me all the drives and reports a...

Hello All, My ada5 disk keeps falling off of my pool. This is the third time. I get the following error on the GUI when it happens: CRITICAL: Aug. 7, 2017, 10:55 p.m. - The volume tank state is DEGRADED: One or more devices has been removed by the administrator. Sufficient replicas exist for...

Dear FreeNas Friends, I have installed the plugin for OwnCloud and added storage under /media/cloud I wonder, how can I convince OwnCloud to actually use this storage for all files and folders, specially while Documents and Photos already exist when I started OwnCloud for the first time...

Boa tarde, Segue listas de modelos: LenovoEMC™ px12-400r LenovoEMC™ px12-350r px12-TI339P - LenovoEMC™ StorCenter px12-350r Obrigado!

Is possible to install FreeNAS on Lenovo models: px12-TI339P LenovoEMC™ px12-400r LenovoEMC™ px12-350r ? Thanks

I found a EMC isilon NL108 (http://www.ndm.net/isilonstore/storage/isilon-108nl) with two 4C8T L5600 series CPUs and no drives, for $250. It has been in a data center for two years and has been pulled from production a month ago. I am unfamiliar with the EMC isilon brand, can I use this single...

Hello! I currently have to replace one drive from my raidz1 (3x3TB) which was made with WD green drives (shame!). One of them failed and I'm now looking forward to using more reliable NAS drives but I can't decide which one to buy. You can find my thread over here and see my shameful build...

I just updated my 9.10 install to FreeNAS 11 and everything went fine. I had an old plex running but I decided remove it before I update to FreeNAS 11. I have now installed the plex plugin and it is running and I can log into it but I can't add any storage to it. I added my media as storage to...

In preparation while waiting for my ML10 to arrive in the mail, I started to think about my NAS storage configuration. By pulling drives out of my old external RAID backup and a quick trip to the store, I will have 2 x 3TB WD Red's and 2 x 2TB WD Red's. This will be my first ZFS build and my...

Hello, I am trying to convince FreeNAS into using the disks from an EMC DAE Enclosure, connected through a cable directly the the FreeNAS Server. FreeNAS config: - Xeon 4 cores; - 64G RAM; - No HDDs; - 2 SLC USB Flash Drives for boot. Controller: - QLogic QLE2464 DAE: - EMC KTN-STL4 4Gbps FC...

This might be a bit long, so please bear with me. Relatively new user of FreeNAS, I set up a box 2 or 3 years ago and installed it as a document and media server, using Plex. I installed Plex via the plugins console. Worked great and really enjoyed it during this time. A few weeks ago I did...

Hi, Can anyone tell me what the cli command zfs destroy, actually destroys ? I have a couple of zfs objects (don't know what they are), remaining from an old Coral install, that I'm tempted to remove. NAS/.vm_cache 45.7M 8.77T 176K /mnt/NAS/.vm_cache NAS/.vm_cache/boot2docker 45.5M...

Hello, In my FN 11 box I have 3 drives. A small 256 SSD and 2 larger drives in Mirror. I created a jail to use as a FAMP stack web server which is working nicely, and on the web server I installed Nextcloud. Everything is working. I followed a how to to setup the mounts and storages. However...

I have set windows as a permission recursively for /mnt/storage/volume in permission type and windows in share type. But I am not able to access volume through smb service. After that I set both permission to Unix but now it is showing "operation not permitted". kindly help.

Current situation I have to 2 raidz3 pools in my freeNAS machine: A) 5 x 4TB NAS disks raidz3 (total storage 6,99 TB) B) 11 x 4TB NAS disks raidz3 (total storage 28,1 TB) In addition to that I have 2 more NAS drives 8TB, not being used in FreeNAS. My case can fit maximal 17 disks, 16 are...

Hello, I tried to create a volume using the storage API but I either get a bad request(400) or the FreeNAS OS malfunctions and I need to reboot it. I am using the following API: { "volume_name": "tank", "layout": [ { "vdevtype": "stripe", "disks": ["ada1", "ada2"]...

Hello, I am new to the forum and my knowledge of FreeNAS is limited. I had help with setting up my server from the start and did not have to understand a lot about the system at the time. I have used FreeNAS for about 1 year and my current setup is the first instance of me running a NAS. When...

Hello everyone, I'm planning on expanding my current storage (4x4TB raidz2 to 6x4TB raidz2) very soon. I fully understand that I will have to destroy my pool and start from scratch and am ok with that since I have a backup solution to store all my data during the transition. However, I'd like...

Hello folks, I have been looking for a while to solve this but didn't work . I have a server with 4 SAS hard drive the problem is either doesn't detect my disk or detect only one: When I use RAID 1+0 : Detect one disk (suppose 2) When I use RAID 5 : I have been able to install FreeNAS but...

Short simple version: I'm setting up my FreeNAS build to handle general file serving and as a ESXi VM store. I got very lucky with the ZIL, which got upgraded to a top-end Intel P3700 datacenter SSD via RMA, and now I don't know how to make best use of that device. My hardware...

Hello i've come across a issue after booting up FreeNAS (This also happened during installation) where it would come up with a Command Timeout Error, the attached image is what I get on screen! The system is rather dated to be honest but it does bootup the OS and the web panel is accessable...

Dear Community, I'd like to remove a cache disk from the system, but I can't. I tried these pool: striped_volume state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 10h11m with 0...

Hello, My system is quite simple and I'm really the only one who uses it. I have three datasets. Media, Downloads and Personal. Transmission downloads everything into Downloads and then after awhile I empty it out and move everything into the other two datasets depending on whatever I have...

I'm trying to figure out why a dataset is showing a surprisingly low amount of available space left to it, despite the underlying pool having lots. I had a FreeNAS RAIDZ1 with five drives in it that I wanted to erase and recreate using eight drives. I snapshotted the existing dataset from it...

Hi guys I got a short problem concerning the sharing. I got two users in freeNAS: User1 (Server) - He got an ISCSI Access to his own drive (Drive3) User2(Client) - He got a CIFS Access to his own drive(drive2) My problem: I can now connect the drive3 via ISCSI in my client. But the problem is...

I have a instance of FreeNAS (9.10) running with a RAID storage configuration. There is something wrong with my OS on the Flash drive it crashes when I try to update. I want to start with a fresh install but I need to be sure that I will be able to access the storage media. I don't want to risk...

Hello, I just recently set up my first FreeNAS box. I'm blown away by the awesomeness so far, but there is one issue that I can't seem to figure out. I'm sure that it's a noobish mistake. Here's the scenario: Two jails, each with the same dataset mounted as storage. Both jails have an...

Hi there. I am building a Server/NAS mainly for storage purposes (mainly movies, music and RAWs from my entire family) and would appreciate your input regarding sufficient hardware. What I own already: Case: Lian-Li PC-D8000 (enormous cube case) http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/pc-d8000/...

Hi Everyone, We are SolNode and specialise in ZFS based cloud-storage solutions. We are a group of technical enthusiast that use FreeNAS at home, in the office, for our clients and love the features that FreeNAS provides. When considering options to backup data to an online location we...

Basically I've just installed FreeNAS 9.10 on a physical server, but when I go to View Disks under Storage, it only shows me one of my six drives. Below I've given all the info possible and the things I've tried already, however there's not much else to say as the issue is pretty straightforward...

We're looking at grabbing two storinators both of them will be the 60 drive bay ones Mobo: X10DRL CPU: Dual E52620 Ram: 256GB ECC (I've learned the mobo can take up to a ram so this will change if needed.) Boot drive: 1 SSD + Redundant SSD (120gb) What's better? 2x Rocket 750s or 4x LSI 9201...

Hi, Is there a way to disable the automatic mounting process for specific storages ? I tried unchecking the "mounted" checkbox, thinking it would be permanent, but whet I restarded my jail the storage ended up being automatically mounted and the checkbox checked again. Sure I could remove the...