Complete newbie to FreeNas. VMware engineer during the daylight hours and mad tinkerer once I get home and hit my basement lab. Started off with a Seagate 4-Bay NAS (10TB), and we've started to exceed it's storage. Started off as a media server, but added it to my ESXi host to do my 6.5 Cert. FreeNas is completely new to me and looking forward to breaking it as I learn
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Just Diving in
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Chris Moore
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If you have questions about anything, please ask. There are some things that are not necessarily going to work the way you might expect. The ZFS file system is one thing that causes some people trouble. Take some time to learn before you commit important information to your FreeNAS.
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Welcome to the forum.
Thanks Chris,
So far I've only gone as far as creating a large RAIDZ2 array, and all the relavant shared and modules to provide an Rsync target for my existing Seagte NAS to copy to. As it stands I am not performing any dedupe at the moment as most of my info are movies and media files. Once I complete the move this server will be a target for the Seagate to perform backups to, and this point I will enable dedupe. Any advice you can offer would be appreciated, I think my new server might be slightly overkill, but I would also like to be able to stream to family and friends from this server, and also run a small docker farm for home use.
