BUILD Want some opinions before I buy

[icsy7867]

Long story short:

Where I work has recently put a ban onto USB devices, some of our apple users are complaining that they wont be able to backup their machines via TimeMachine so I wanted to help out.

I built a test system from an old box I had lying around to make sure everything was working OK with our AD environment and permissions. I think Freenas can fit the bill for what we need. My boss has given me the OK to put the order in but I wanted to follow up with you guys first.

Supermicro Superserver 5028R-E1CR12L
Super X10SRH-CLN4F
Intel Xeon E5-1620V4 Processor
32GB DDR4 ECC (Will go higher in the future if necessary)
LSI3008 12GB/S SAS Controller, IT Mode with dual JBOD Expansion Ports
Quad Intel i350-AM4 LAN ports plus IPMI 2.0 Management LAN port with KVM Over LAN

Will probably start with 6x 6TB WD Red or 6x 6TB Toshiba Enterprise SATA drives in RaidZ2. If we run out of space with 24TB's of time machine backups, I will make another RaidZ2 pool of 6TB drives as well, and bump the memory.

Please let me know what you guys think! We are going for a "budget" system here, so I would like to keep the system (minus the drives) under $2,600. Currently at $2,478.16 without the drives

 

[Mlovelace]

Looks fine, you'll want to set quotas on the datasets for time machine backups, otherwise TM will think it has access to all available space. If you are just servicing time machine backups I doubt you will need more than 32GB of ram.

 

[icsy7867]

Looks fine, you'll want to set quotas on the datasets for time machine backups, otherwise TM will think it has access to all available space. If you are just servicing time machine backups I doubt you will need more than 32GB of ram.

The way I setup on my test box was to provision a dataset per user, and set the quota to 1TB. This was the best way I could find to make sure each user only had a limited space.

Thanks for the quick response! I will probably put the order in first thing tomorrow once I am back in the office.

 

[Stux]

The way I setup on my test box was to provision a dataset per user, and set the quota to 1TB. This was the best way I could find to make sure each user only had a limited space.

This will work well, but see this bug report for a neat way to setup your TM quota.

https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/17875

Make sure you have this in place before you start backing up with TM!

Otherwise the first user will make a 24TB sparse volume ;)

I'm hoping this method becomes the default on FreeNAS in the future :)

 

[icsy7867]

This will work well, but see this bug report for a neat way to setup your TM quota.

https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/17875

Make sure you have this in place before you start backing up with TM!

Otherwise the first user will make a 24TB sparse volume ;)

I'm hoping this method becomes the default on FreeNAS in the future :)

Quite cool and good to know! I had a lot of trouble playing around with the dataset and windows permissions trying to get everything to work. Thanks for the info!