Building a 3 TB Backup Server Using FreeNAS

[novachevyguy]

i can't get freenas to work for crap!!!! tell me something , i have an HP with 701 p3 - 512 ram - and alotta hdd space....., i've downloaded , burned and attempted to boot FN three times now , all met with failure , my comp IS AN x86 , so where's the right freenas.iso ???????

[hajiaad]

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[kjnash432]

I built a 4 disc 4TB RAID5 freenas box. I am having a problem with the RAID5 software status stopping when the machine reboots. The only thing I have been able to do is rebuild the array to get it to work again. What can I do to fix this?

[Thaed]

@kjnash432 Check out the FreeNAS forum on Sourceforge. There are many geniuses who have probably already talked about this issue. If you have installed the software and mounted everything correctly, you may have a hardware incompatibility. Also on the forum is a list of compatible hardware. Good luck!

[fLoodom]

This is a pretty bad idea. Backing up on RAID0 is like putting your portemonaie in front of your house and hope it wont be stolen. One drive crashes, the full backup becomes useless.

[Thaed]

@fLoodom Meh, I have yet to have a crash (knock on wood). I will say that the back up servers disks have all been taken down and put into Windows machines as that's just as easy for back up. I'm thinking that external drives would work nicely too.

[logistix111]

You may as well just put the other disks in the same tower and back up to them locally. It would be much faster than backing up across the network cable to another machine.

[artifactingreality]

@ logistix111

That would leave the backup drives vulnerable to the same potential problems that could damage/corrupt the main drives.

Besides, gigabit ethernet is fairly fast, faster than USB2 for example,

[disallowautoaim]

I have to backup my 2.2TB server this weekend, hopefully this video will help. Thanks man.

Just one question though, how long did it take to back up the 1.4TB? A week, a month?!

[DannyBoi56]

Depends on the connection. Gigabit with good ethernet chipsets should only take a few days.

[disallowautoaim]

@DannyBoi56 Well I backed up 1.8TB and it took just under 3 days using a gigabit connection. On average I got about 7-8MB/s transfer speed.

[preymouth]

@disallowautoaim lol

[utubepunk]

Sweet! I'm running an older version of FreeNAS and I'm afraid to upgrade. My current FreeNAS boots from a CF and has two IDE drives- nowhere near 3 TB though. Some computers on my network can transfer fast- others take forever. Thanks for the video.

[HenkAnnieNaald]

Why a P4 as main NaS server. Freenas doesnt need that much power.

I suggest u put your 4TB nas on your P3 system. Uses a lot less power and u see it in the electric bill.

[spikeguns1]

just build a new server whit a ultra low voltage processor, low wattage psu and onboard video card.

[croquis24]

lol like a intel atom moterbord cpu sata and video card all in one

[the74impala]

Great video, I now have a FreeNas rolling at my house. I look forward to creating more dedicated servers with the program. Right now I have psuedo servers mainly, just desktops with a bunch of drives. Once I get situated, I will do similar to this set up. Easy to set up once I figured out all the things I was doing wrong.