Experts -
I decided to pull the trigger and order the FreeNas Mini box to replace my existing box. Current box is a much older machine with hardware limitations, and is starting to produce intermittent issues of various types.
So the new machine will be here this week, and I'm curious to know, what if anything, would you expert users do differently than you have done in the past? What mistakes/successes have you had that I can learn from?
This machine will primarily be used to store media and backups. I may set up Plex on it to serve music/video across the network, but I have not decided yet.
Most of the other machines on the network are Macs, and I'm curious about what, if anything, I should do differently in that case. Migration to Mac has happened recently in the last couple of years, I suppose I'm what you'd call a Windows power user(of sorts)
Migrating the data to the new machine - The data that is on the old machine will need moved onto the new box, a lot of forum posts on this, to use rsync. Seems reasonable. Does ssh NEED to be setup to do this? Or.. is there a step by step or a tutorial on ssh connection via a Mac? I know how to do it on a windows box, but I'm trying to learn here.
Thanks in advance, gang.
I decided to pull the trigger and order the FreeNas Mini box to replace my existing box. Current box is a much older machine with hardware limitations, and is starting to produce intermittent issues of various types.
So the new machine will be here this week, and I'm curious to know, what if anything, would you expert users do differently than you have done in the past? What mistakes/successes have you had that I can learn from?
This machine will primarily be used to store media and backups. I may set up Plex on it to serve music/video across the network, but I have not decided yet.
Most of the other machines on the network are Macs, and I'm curious about what, if anything, I should do differently in that case. Migration to Mac has happened recently in the last couple of years, I suppose I'm what you'd call a Windows power user(of sorts)
Migrating the data to the new machine - The data that is on the old machine will need moved onto the new box, a lot of forum posts on this, to use rsync. Seems reasonable. Does ssh NEED to be setup to do this? Or.. is there a step by step or a tutorial on ssh connection via a Mac? I know how to do it on a windows box, but I'm trying to learn here.
Thanks in advance, gang.