Web GUI Will Not Come Up
Hello all, I was in my FreeNAS box which I setup today and have everything configured correctly. I shut the box down to take it off site but before I left I wanted to check something. When I fired the...
View ArticleOwnCloud PBI performance
The PBI of owncloud isn't configured to be terribly performant. The two biggest points I see are that it's using sqlite as opposed to a more robust rdb, and does not have APC cache enabled. I'm...
View ArticleZFS Performance Adventure or How to spend a lot of time reading the forums
My adventure started when I needed to build a storage array for work. We needed at least 3TB of storage for our current needs plus some expansion room, it needed to be somewhat fast (using ESXi) and...
View Article[How To] Hard Drive Burn-In Testing
jgreco did a nice system build/test/burn-in guide here, but I (and many others) found the details a bit lacking in the hard drive section. He mentions S.M.A.R.T. tests, but doesn't go over how to run...
View ArticleRemote NUT "Capacity" disappeared with 9.2.1.6-RELEASE?
I'm not completely certain because I only noticed it now but: I am using pfSense to remotely monitor NUT on my FreeNAS box with a usb connection to an APC BackUPS 550G configured thusly: View...
View ArticleFreeNAS continuously rebooting after importing pool
Hi, I've got a problem whereby FreeNAS appears to continually reboot, shortly after importing a degraded ZFS volume. I have an HP Microsever N40L with 4 3TB Seagate drives. Everything was working well...
View ArticleVirtualBox (VBox) Plugin Upgrade?
Not to be trollin'... But: The first VBox plugin is 4.3.12-OSE and VBox 4.3.14 is now out. What's the best/correct way to upgrade the plugin/jail?
View ArticleFirst NAS Build
Hello all, i have been wanting to make an NAS for awhile and have finally assembled my parts list after checking several recommendations from here and other websites. Case : Cooler Master Elite 130...
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Playing with ZFS bookmarks
Just experimenting a bit today I noticed that feature@bookmarks and feature@extensible_dataset are enabled and active. 1) Now I can bookmark a snapshot (i.e. @20140717-0941 in the test Dataset of the...
View ArticleRsync over SSH
Hi all, I have some troubles and questions trying to set up a rsync service over SSH in order to backup some Windows PCs on my nas but over WAN. From what I understand reading the FreeNAS wiki: "a...
View ArticleFreeNAS haters
I've been browsing the Newbs section so that I can learn more about how freeNAS works. I see a lot of people getting really angry and put-off when something doesn't work how they expect or when they...
View ArticleFreenas freezing - ata5: FAILURE - out of memory in start
Good afternoon everyone! I have problems in my FreeNAS server (FreeNAS-9.2.1.5-RELEASE-x64). Every day he crashes and repeatedly displays the following warning: ata5: FAILURE - out of memory in start...
View Article(How To) N00b's guide to CrashPlan on FreeNAS
I'd like to thank sirkkalap and everyone else on these forums for posting similar guides that peaked my interest. However, there is a VERY simple way to install / configure CrashPlan that is not...
View Article[HOW-TO] Install routed OpenVPN server in a VIMAGE portjail
After much frustration with the available documentation, I've finally managed to get OpenVPN installed and configured inside a VIMAGE portjail that allows me to access my FreeNAS box over the internet,...
View ArticleUPS and NUT appears to work selecting any USB port? Odd Behavior
I was unfortunately forced into reinstalling FreeNAS and rebuilding my pool from scratch (It was easier than figuring out what the heck was going on, long story!) and during my configuration setup I...
View ArticleCan't backup on TimeMachine (AFP)
Hi all, I'm new in the NAS activities and i'm learning from scratch each step to configure my own server. I bought an HP Proliant N54L with 2x3To WD Red (Miroring == RaidZ1). I want to do different...
View ArticlePulled a disk for testing, web UI not responding.
NOTE: Data not important on the server, just testing purposes. Using a HP Microserver N40L with 4gb of ram, array was 3x2TB disks - it was mid copy. The copy is still working in teracopy to my Windows...
View ArticleCan't chmod files - Operation not permitted
Running FreeNAS-9.2.1.6-RELEASE-x64 My ssh key casually stopped working and is now being rejected. Went on with a verbose passworded ssh, upon password connection I received a log detailing a...
View ArticleLogitech Media Server for FreeNAS 9.2.1.1
Hi, After providing a couple years ago a package to install LMS on FreeNAS 8, since I recently upgraded to FreeNAS 9, i found out that LMS wasn't starting anymore (thanks to Perl upgrading from 5.14 to...
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