Data Centre in a Rack

I recently took the plunge to install some of my more used networking components into a server rack. I'd been putting this off for a few years. Most of these components have been projects of mine which I've already blogged on in various places on this blog. The obvious places are the … Continue reading →

rsync over SSH from Linux workstation to FreeNAS

I've been intending for quite some time to setup an automated or at least a thoughtless one click backup procedure from my family members PC's to a file server. Now if you put files directories in the place where we are going to rsync to, and run the command we're going to setup, those new files … Continue reading →

Setting up a NFS share in FreeNAS

This setup is quite different to how you would normally setup NFS on a *nix server. I only use NFS in read only mode due to security concerns with NFS. There are very few options you can configure and there is no point in modifying the /etc/rc.conf /etc/exports and there is no point in adding … Continue reading →

A few steps to secure a FreeNAS server

Change the web gui admin user name in System|General under WebGUI->Username. Change the default password in System|General|Password. Setup key pair authentication for SSH and secure FreeNAS. Clean out any existing files in ~/.ssh on your client machine. At command prompt on … Continue reading →

Adding disks, CIFS/SMB shares to FreeNAS

Add Disks: What I did, was add a disk at a time (one each week, and stressed it for the entire week). This way the wear on the disk should be staggered and we are less likely to have all drives fail at the same time. Once I'd physically added all disks (ended up adding 4 x WD7500AACS for … Continue reading →

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