NAS4FREE. Issues with a failed drive in RAIDZ1, formatted wrong drive, then completely failed ZPOOL. Recovering, then reconfiguring a backup plan to USB drives. So my Christmas present for last year was 8.6TB of data almost being lost on my NAS4FREE server. It hosts a lot of photos, ISOs (both MS, Games, Linux and… Read More »
Helpful scripts: Backup,Snapshot,Standby,Scrub,CheckPools… – Forum.
I upgraded our NAS4FREE boxes to 9.3.0.2 this morning after doing a ‘test’ run last night on my home machine, well not really a test, it was a home production machine, but less important than work’s machines. The home machine went off without a hitch. If you read the info when downloading the new… Read More »
Not used this yet, but thinking about it. Connecting WordPress and WebDAV | ITS Strategy & Architecture.
I used spacesniffer on servers and workstations/laptops to visually determine what is taking the most space. It’s like windirtree but is more visual. It supports viewing space via a path rather than root drive too which I find very useful at times. SpaceSniffer download.
This can get extremely complex. Basically, unless you really need to, I wouldn’t bother going into it. Can I Set Up User Name Mapping in Windows Vista? – Services for UNIX – Interoperability – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
I’ve now had 2 times whereby I’ve lost partition information on hard drives. One was completely random, the other had issues already and I was trying to fix it. TestDisk was crucial in the recovery of data. The first issue was when I used an external hard drive to backup a client machine and when… Read More »
mdadm – Can I create a software RAID 1 with one device – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange.
Migrating To RAID1 Mirror on Sarge.
$ sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sda > parts.txt $ sudo sfdisk /dev/sdb < parts.txt via [ubuntu] Command line partition editor.
NAS4Free – ZFS kernel tune WebGUI extension 20121031. The only realy tweaks I’ve used and tended to have seen actually make a difference is by utilising this ZFS kerneal tune extension. Each upgrade if I remember I run it then reboot.
NAS4Free I use this as my NAS server at home and 2x at work. I used FreeNAS for a while back in the day and liked it. To be honest, for me, it’s pretty much either or for my kind of usage. NAS4FREE tends to focus on NAS rather than other functionality like plugins and… Read More »
Using Windows Explorer Right-click on Computer entry and select Map network drive…. Choose a local network drive to map ownCloud to. Finally, enter the address to your ownCloud instance, followed by /remote.php/webdav, e.g. https://www.yourserver.com/owncloud/remote.php/webdav for an SSL protected server. Check Reconnect at logon to make this mapping persistent across reboots. If you want to connect… Read More »
Updating ownCloud — ownCloud Administrators Manual 5.0 documentation.