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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 9:35 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com |
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> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> > Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > > <SNIP> |
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> > > > I got a old rig I can use. I actually burned OpenNAS, TrueNAS or |
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> > > FreeNAS on a USB stick. I can't recall which one I put on it tho. I |
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> > > downloaded all three. lol If you know that one is better than the |
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> > > others, feel free to share. Also, I'd like to keep using LVM if I |
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> > > can. If nothing else, I already got the data on the drives and won't |
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> > > have to reformat and copy again. It took almost 100 hours to copy to |
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> > > the new 16TB drive. Using LVM would make that easier, and faster. |
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> > > > I'll have to work with what I got for now but I really like the |
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> > > Raspberry option for its size and good options to upgrade later. I'll |
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> > > just make do with something else until that option is doable. Maybe |
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> > > it won't be to long. |
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> > > > Dale |
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> > > > :-) :-) |
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> > > TrueNAS Core. It's the free one. Works great. Very stable, but it is |
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> > > BSD, not Linux so you'll be frustrated sometimes. None the less it |
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> > > works very well. |
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> > Well, I booted it and it is FreeNAS. I got it on a USB stick tho. |
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> > Well, I put the installer on one stick and then installed on a second |
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> > stick. Kinda odd but I get it. I also noticed it is BSD based. I |
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> > played with BSD once before. One thing I can say, it's secure. Big |
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> time. |
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> I'm not clear exactly but FreeNAS _BECAME_ TrueNAS Core and TrueNAS |
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> (all 3 versions) are the ones being worked on. |
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> Installing from USB is pretty standard. Installing to a USB flash drive |
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> is not unheard of in home NAS servers but be careful of machine |
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> placement because people talk about USB sockets being unreliable |
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> long term. I'm sure you'll figure it out, but make sure you're using |
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> TrueNAS Core. |
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> > I see it uses ZFS or something. No mention of LVM. I figured that. Oh |
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> > well. |
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> I see LVM as something that belongs on your machine, not your NAS |
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> device. Your LVM volumes will just be directories on the NAS. You will |
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> make your pools as large as you can afford and the NAS will just store |
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> your data. You don't really need to worry about that much. My NAS |
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> stores backups from 3 different machine, but all the backup data |
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> is in a single ZFS RAID1 pool located in directories which macth the |
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> name of the machine that wrote them. |
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> > If I can't hammer FreeNAS into shape, I'll try TrueNAS next. If it |
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> > works, that's fine too. ;-) |
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> My input for the third time. Move to TrueNAS Core. That's the one |
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> that is being developed and getting support. |
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> Mark |
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I think I'm going to switch. I need to start over anyway. I set up a |
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user account and a large pool but while I can mount it, I can't put |
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anything in it yet. I get a permission error. I likely missed a step |
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or something. Starting over will help correct that. lol |
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By the way, when I got it installed, it did update to a newer version. |
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I didn't look to see if it was dated in any way but updates seem to be |
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available for FreeNAS. I dunno. |
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Thanks for the info. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |