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Backup Scenarios

Every IT person will have a different idea on backup, especially these days with multiple options. I subscribe to the "3-2-1 Backup Strategy" I was thinking about using my primary FreeNAS, a second local hard drive RAID, and cloud object as the third. But, when I started putting...

I made some updates to my lab setup this weekend. I've been meaning to get my VPN working to connect my iphone photos to my own FreeNAS. Of course that started a bunch of wheels in motion as often happens.

  1. Install Ubiqiti VPN gateway
  2. Update FreeNAS to 11 because GUI (but also VMs)
  3. Get Nextcloud co...

Updated my FreeNAS server.

[root@freenas] /mnt/data2# sysctl hw.machine hw.ncpu hw.model

hw.machine: amd64

hw.ncpu: 8

hw.model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz

[root@freenas] /mnt/data2# sysctl hw.physmem

hw.physmem: 34213445632

Run some basic iozone tests to see what we can ge...