Prefacing with the fact that I'm a total newb, but trying to learn. Please be gentle! I'm trying to Rsync over SSH, backing up data from my FreeNAS to a Synology NAS that I have been using for a few years now. I followed the instructions on this site since he's guiding step-by-step exactly what...

Hi, My friend is a video editor and he's ask me if I can build him a 20TB NAS system. NAS is totally not in my territories, I normally build gaming PC. What he want is, is that the system is made of new parts and have to be as cheap as possible and also 20TB drive space in it. Can anyone help me...

Being new to free and wanting to use rsync to move folders to Synology. I spent over 20 hours reading all the many articles on the web to set up ssh to accomplish it The only reason I am posting is I was never able to make it work using the terminal in FreeNAS. I then decided to us my MacBook...

Hi All, We bought a Freenas mini-xl to upgrade our current synology box so I am trying to set up an rsync task to migrate all data over the weekend. I've been trying to use this guide : https://www.mattwall.co.uk/2016/04/03/rsync-to-synology-from-freenas.html but I got stuck in the part when I...

Hi folks, Let me pretense this post by saying, I think this is a Synology issue and not a FreeNas One. However, as we are migrating away from Synology and onto a FreeNAS box I wanted to see if the community could help me out :) I have built my FreeNas Box and everything looks great, I can...

Greetings! In the many years since I gave up on Windows NT servers it's been a progression of Linux based solutions. Netwinder, Cobalt and lately SME. Much more good than bad! With W10's 1803 update I have had to start looking to move from NT style domains to AD. From my reading here I see...

I have a need to backup the FreeNAS server I setup. I have a Synology NAS that I intend to use as a backup destination, however I am having trouble getting rsync to work. I am open to alternatives on how to back it up, or assistance with the rsync setup. I tried walking through the guide I...

Hello! This is going to be my first post on the FreeNAS forums. I have experimented with FreeNAS before on a VM but never used it in real life. Currently I am running Xpenology(DIY Synology) on my part scraped pretty random NAS but I can't really upgrade since the AMD support is lacking and the...

Hi, I've tried mounting a NFS share from my Synology NAS to my FreeNAS (have data on both NAS). When I try to do a "mount -a" I get the message "fstab: /etc/fstab:3: Inappropriate file type or format". I only added this line to the file: 10.10.1.12:/Media /media/Freja/Media nfs defaults 0 0...

Hey guys! tldr; I'm trying to get two NASs to sync their data from separate sites, the problem being both of them are going to have data that changes daily. One of them is a Synology that's come with our new branch, and the other is a FreeNAS box (3TB vs. 12TB) so I need to selectively sync...

Hello all, tomorrow I'll get an HP Microserver Gen8 wiht 4x1TB HDD to which I would like to migrate 1.99TB of data from a Synology with 2x3TB HDD (In SHR "RAID1") My plan is: Create ZFS Pool as follow VDEV Mirror 1 > disk1 -1TB + disk2-1TB VDEV Mirror 2 > disk3 - 1TB + disk 4-1TB Migrate 1.99...

I've been running an HP N54L with 16Gb ECC ram for a few years, currently with 5x2Tb drives. The AMD Turion II Neo N54L Dual-Core Processor is fine for running this as a storage appliance but underpowered for hosting any virtual machines, which I'd like to do when FreeNAS 10 is released...

Hello FreeNAS-Community! I've been playing around with Linux distributions and small just-for-fun servers out of old hardware for some time now. About 3 years ago I've got myself a 4-bay Synology NAS to get a bit more serious about storage and to consolidate all my data on one device. It's an...