FreeNAS - THE MOST COOLEST *UNIX THING EVER

Don't think FreeNAS can do online RAID expansion? Openfiler can, but not through the GUI and it needs some command line faffage. For me, despite the awesomeness that is FreeNAS, this makes openfiler win it.
 
UniqueID said:
no mention of openfiler? http://www.openfiler.com/
freenas is good but openfiler is good too.
also loading it on a compactflash card with a SATA to CF converter will save you having to load the OS on your storage space.
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i did see openfiler but it literally has no documentation that I could see, it also is massively larger than freeNAS.

Can openfiler run the latest sabnzbd and transmission/deluge?
 
Oxy said:
need sabnzbd working though, looks a right ass to get working :/
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It's not hard. I have it running on an NSLU2 and it only took a couple of minutes to set up.

EDIT : Must...read..whole..thread. I see you got it working. :p
 
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eXor said:
It's not hard. I have it running on an NSLU2 and it only took a couple of minutes to set up.

EDIT : Must...read..whole..thread. I see you got it working. :p
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yeh mate, its running! but an old 0.4.3 version. This may not be a problem for me if it reads my RSS usenet feed. I can't test this till tommorrow night if you get me :D

Ideally I want it upgraded to 0.4.8 but this seems extremely hard for me to do, theres a little bit of info on sabnzbd forum and freenas forum but not a full guide. ATM im stuck with 0.4.3 but as I say that may not be a problem if it reads my RSS usenet feed properly tommorrow night.

Having said that I may not be able to use freeNAS after all :( just realised I need to run a printer server and somehow "backup" or centrally store pop3 e-mails, then pass the e-mails on my laptop.

Basically my parents run their own business, they go on holiday in the winter and obviously that leaves no one about to answer e-mails except me :/

I want to route these e-mails through my proposed server then to the laptop, purely so when they go away I can put an out of office message on thunderbird. I understand this cannot be done with pop3 systems alone.

As you can tell this is a side of BSD/Linux I know little about :)
 
mortals said:
it's pretty cool for testing clustering using it as a iscsi target

use it in the office for testing new software products :)
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Currently doing this with Red Hat's Clustering suite - 'cept I've fudged GFS on top of the iSCSI target :(

I've got FreeNAS and OpenFiler installed on top of ESXi, both run perfectly well. However, for ease of use, FreeNAS wins hands down. For example, I had a couple of iSCSI targets up and working literally within minutes of installing FreeNAS, whereas I'm still trying to get to grips with OpenFiler a week later (admittedly after only having spent a couple of hours trying to configure it).
 
Oxy said:
does anyone know how to enalbe the ports collection in freeNAS? I had a brainwave and want to get cups and a mailserver running in freeNAS.
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Maybe freebsd might be better but you would need to set up things manually, was thinking of this myself, seen a book that looked pretty good for this -

Building a Server with FreeBSD 7
by Bryan J. Hong

Has 30 different server setup tutorials mail, cups, samba, lamp etc
 
I've just seen this thread and downloaded FreeNAS and installed onto VMWare. I really like the look of it at the moment and am thinking of swapping my current XP Home download server to a FreeNAS download server (providing I can get SABnzbd+ working properly).

I really would recommend it to anyone for a simple, light home server regardless of whether they'll actually use it as a NAS or not :)

Absolutely brilliant distro, and as mentioned above it'll run on pretty much anything as it only uses ~40MB RAM (that's with SAMBA and the BitTorrent client running)
 
Oxy said:
Sucess!! Got sabnzbd 0.4.3 working on freeNAS, just need to update it to 0.4.8, then get some sort of script file setup to launch it If i ever have to reset the computer.
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When you did "pkg_add -v sabnzbdplus-0.4.3.tbz" did you get an error saying PKG_TMPDIR isn't big enough? Any fixes?
 
Yeah, I've included 0.4.8 in that file (just forgot to update the filename). Install it like you did for 0.4.3 and you should have 0.4.8 ;)

(Don't count on it working, it might even break stuff, you never know :p)

I'll be testing it myself in a bit.
 
Craig321 said:
Yeah, I've included 0.4.8 in that file (just forgot to update the filename). Install it like you did for 0.4.3 and you should have 0.4.8 ;)

(Don't count on it working, it might even break stuff, you never know :p)

I'll be testing it myself in a bit.
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ah kewl.

how did you do it out of interest?

So to install

cd /mnt/disk1/temp/

pkg_add - r sabnzbd0.4.8.tbz

Then in theory it should work?
 
ok here is what i did..
folow these steps... and it wil run.
first ofcourse install freenas, and configure SSH so you can login as root.
log in using putty. login: root
Pasw: freenas

(root password = same as FreeNAS WebGUI password)
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link for downloading sabnzbd ftp://ftp.freebsd.org /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages‐6.4‐release/All/
you can browse for other files.

TIP make sure you read point 12



found this info at. http://apps.sourceforge.net/phpbb/f...&t=9&sid=49197a7b2a1b1dfbb5a3fef35e71e650#p24

his is the Usenet client SABnzbd and includes all the dependencies required to run it.

More on SABnzbd here: http://www.sabnzbd.org

Overbyrn supplied the SABnzbd, dependencies and a shell script to run it.
SABnzbd: http://www.freenas.co.uk/files/sabnzb0.4.3.tar
Shell Script: http://www.freenas.co.uk/files/sab.sh


Auskento wrote a post processing script which will move downloaded files to folders specified in the postproc.conf file. It also handles VIDEO_TS folders making an .iso image and will join multiple .avi files.
I've modified this very slightly to work on FreeNAS.
Script: http://www.freenas.co.uk/files/sab_postproc.zip
Original Script available here: http://postproc.incinerator.com.au/

Overbyrn's instructions:-

1) Untar file to a temp folder on freenas. eg. tar zxvf sabnzb0.4.3.tar
2) pkg_add -v sabnzbdplus-0.4.3.tbz
3) first ran it from command line ... /usr/local/bin/SABnzbd.py
4) cntrl-c to exit.
5) it created a /root/.sabnzbd dir
6) edited /root/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini
7) changed from localhost to 192.168.0.22
Cool re-ran as in step 3)
9) went to http://192.168.0.22:8080/sabnzbd/
10) configured to my liking
11) created script as below to stop / start as a daemon process...

#! /bin/sh
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting SABnzbd."
/usr/bin/sudo -u sabuser -H /usr/local/src/SABnzbd/SABnzbd.py -d -f /root/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini
;;
stop)
echo "Shutting down SABnzbd."
/usr/bin/fetch "http://192.168.0.22:8080/sabnzbd/api?mode=shutdown" > /dev/null
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0

12) noticed in console logging external binary unzip missing...

2008-09-23 20:14:32,166::ERROR::unzip binary... NOT found!

13) did pkg_add -rv unzip. this installed unzip into /usr/local/bin
14) restarted sabnzbd using script... /root/sab.sh start
15) checked "connections" tab - no sign of missing unzip.

Used this sabnzbd wiki link for reference ... http://sabnzbd.wikidot.com/start

made and uploaded a newer version of the zip containing v0.4.3 build of sabnzbplus.
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Im following that guide above. I think you have to install that 0.4.3 script, which also downloads all the dependancies. Then I guess you package may work
 
That's the one I'm following as well :)

In theory, yes it should work. However, it brought up some errors when I tried to run the python script and failed to create the initial /root/.sabnzbd folder, going to test the original tbz file now and see if it was my updates causing the problem.

To upgrade the files I got the SABnzndb+ 0.4.8 off their website & overwrote the files within "sabnzbdplus-0.4.3.tbz" with the newer files.
 
Craig321 said:
That's the one I'm following as well :)

In theory, yes it should work. However, it brought up some errors when I tried to run the python script and failed to create the initial /root/.sabnzbd folder, going to test the original tbz file now and see if it was my updates causing the problem.

To upgrade the files I got the SABnzndb+ 0.4.8 off their website & overwrote the files within "sabnzbdplus-0.4.3.tbz" with the newer files.
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ah ok, so I guess your replacing "sabnzbdplus-0.4.3.tbz" with your version before you run "python /usr/local/binSAbnzbd.py"

Is that right?
 
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