plugins are too much trouble?

[jchan94]

Plugins are a pain to configure so that they work beautifully.

I was wondering if anyone uses VirtualBox to run services such as crashplan, and other things of that sort.

 

[DifferentStrokes]

Sure. You can set it up and run it in a plain vanilla jail or in a VM if necessary.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

I was wondering if anyone uses VirtualBox to run services such as crashplan, and other things of that sort

Yes, I do, but my needs don't overlap much with the available plugins anyway. One thing I have run all three ways is BTSync, and I preferred the VM approach (Ubuntu Server). One reason I prefer it is that I'm much more familiar with Ubuntu Server than I am with FreeBSD.

 

[jchan94]

Yes, I do, but my needs don't overlap much with the available plugins anyway. One thing I have run all three ways is BTSync, and I preferred the VM approach (Ubuntu Server). One reason I prefer it is that I'm much more familiar with Ubuntu Server than I am with FreeBSD.

Ah I see hmk. that sounds great.

I'm having issues installing crashplan, and still trying to configure transmission, couchpotatoe, and sickrage to work with plex automated.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

The fiddly (to me) thing about using VMs is that you have to get the storage mounted into a folder in the VirtualBox jail, and then get that folder mounted into the VM. This wasn't an issue for me with BTSync because I only sync a few GB, so I just stored it directly in the VM. Since then I switched to AeroFS, but the principle is the same.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Plugins are a pain to configure so that they work beautifully.

I was wondering if anyone uses VirtualBox to run services such as crashplan, and other things of that sort.

Want to explain? I run crashplan,Plex, transmission and sonarr all work great. Plex and transmission are in jails and crashplan and sonarr are plugins but that doesn't mean much because everything is a jail.

I will say crashplan is a pain but that behavior will be the same in a Linux VM.

 

[jchan94]

Want to explain? I run crashplan,Plex, transmission and sonarr all work great. Plex and transmission are in jails and crashplan and sonarr are plugins but that doesn't mean much because everything is a jail.

I will say crashplan is a pain but that behavior will be the same in a Linux VM.

I guess I'm just wondering how people can get these things configured. I'm having a lot of issues even getting crashplan working, and then running plex and transmission to automate.

Is it possible for me to ask you how you set yours up?

 

[SweetAndLow]

Not sure what to explain, have you tried following the guides for how to install them?
Plex:
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...all-plex-in-a-freenas-9-3-jail-updated.19412/

Transmission is very similar to plex. just pkg install transmission then echo 'transmission_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf and service transmission start. After this you can access the webui.

You will want to add your zfs storage to these jails so you can access your data. If your problem is permissions then that is a whole other problem.