 Tommy here from long system. We're going to talk about free nas 11 dot 3 u4 Which is the latest update some bug fixes that are in there a couple highlights And I want to talk about the longevity of free nas and well not really how long it runs because obviously you can run pretty much Forever, but what it looks like running on one of our older systems And I'll bring that up because talk a little bit about old hardware and what you should do with it in terms of free nas Because this comes up of should I use my older system? 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So here's the free nas eleven dot three you for update And once again, no feature changes mostly lots and lots of bug fixes over a hundred bug fixes that are located in here And there's a bunch of little interface nuances that were Goofy I guess I'm not going to go over every single of the hundred bugs in here But maybe you have one of the problems on your system that Will be fixed on this But let's talk about a couple that I have run into occasionally with clients and consulting that we do and this one was kind of interesting is when it decided not to delete expired snapshots and It turns out it turned the hold on one snapshot was where the problem was so I've set up snapshots And I wasn't experienced this problem, but I also haven't had to restore any data And I've also not had to stop and put a hold on a particular snapshot to not have it get purged But apparently by doing that hold on a snapshot That would stop it. So this bug can easily be created by Creating a snapshot schedule and then placing hold on one snap Removing the hold resolves the issue. So these are like I said a lot of minor bug fixes There is those security updates in here. So I do recommend you load this I know a lot of people are always nervous about loading updates I try to keep all of our systems patched and up to date a provider There's no major issues that would slow me down from doing it But in this particular case there are at least a few security issues including a kernel panic for the Linux KPI Subsystem fixed kernel panic and NPS driver. I fix USB HID descriptor parsing error fix vulnerabilities and unbound That's specifically the security things in here. So if I didn't dive deep into this But essentially this is Unbound server not that you run DNS on specifically free NAS But when free NAS where to do a if it were to do a DNS lookup a mail formed answer The result from a DNS lookup from an upstream name server consent unbounded to an infinite loop Resulting in denial of service a malicious query can cause a traffic amplification attack against a third-party authoritative name server so this is kind of a Interesting condition where if you're resolving something and free NAS looks up a site that site happens to be having a malicious DNS record in there it just sends unbounded to a loop and crashes. So I see that's not good And something you may not run into that often It's not like free NAS spends a lot of time resolving things because it's generally just looking up what you ask it to So it's kind of an edge case. It's not like you're running a browser on it You're looking up things actively with free NAS But if you were you know or someone figures out a way to do something Or maybe you have some plug-in and someone drops a resolver in that plug-in and say hey Go look up this site and it happens It's a real edge case for it to happen But nothing's you know, it's always better to err inside a caution keep your security patches up to date Unable to specify OAuth client ID and secret for Google Drive and OneDrive cloud sync credentials I have not done any video on backing up to Google Drive and a few people have asked me about that So that may be an upcoming video and it's good that they fixed the OAuth client ID on here And I bling that up because it's also related to the Google teams drive and the fact that teams offers quite a bit of storage It's been really popular Google's we have a lot of clients using it and we're a user of it So I may do a video on how to back it up to teams is something I may look into as there's you know it's important to get your data off-site and backed up and To Google teams if you already have an account or a one-drive account not a bad thing So I'm happy that this bug has been fixed Which is actually a weird bug because if you read through the details here Apparently it was exposed in the UI to put that in there and then somehow removed and then somehow turned back on So kind of strange but good news it's fixed if you're having that problem before now This is one that we kind of ran into I see we as in me and Xavier when we are setting up his server I do a lot of videos on xcp ng and xcp ng Can host a virtualized instance of free nas I've not done a video on this But it's something I've talked about how to pass drives through but apparently there was a Certain condition and under heavy load that would cause it to crash and that's now been fixed So yes, they are watching through the bugs on this as long as you're reporting these bugs If you are running a virtualized version of free nas It's a specific case that Xavier had for his setup Which at some point we made you a video on uncover for how he built his malware lab and Essentially test hacking lab that he's got the virtualized instance was having issues our solution was actually really quickly I said just go to true nas core because that's no more later version It's out and all the little bugs that we were experiencing for the virtualized was working fine It sounds like this is also fixed in you for Recursive replication is another one we ran into with a couple clients We did consulting with and it was basically a problem where when you want a bunch of data sets And I've done, you know how to do replication on Free nas, but you should be able to just check that little box It says hey just replicate all the data sets over to the other system And there was times when that didn't work and now that bug has been fixed as well Now let's talk a little bit about my old free nas server here That's been running for a while because this is kind of something that came up and said hey What about old hardware and free nas now this system has been rebuilt because I wanted to Re-engineer everything on it, but it's still an older system. This is just a system we built in 2014 I believe towards the end Over the beginning of 2015 and it is an old Intel i5 and yes You're seeing it right only for threads on it So no, this is not something that there's any bragging rights in terms of performance, but it does work quite well now I had the pools pulled up and I did a video on having unbalanced vdebs This is kind of like an over time. What does it look like after it's been running for well, you know five plus years and Still quite well, so these drives are broke down into Three different vdev groups that are all RAID z2 now these vdev groups Are also mismatched, so these are two terabyte These are three terabyte and these ones are four terabyte and this is I have a whole video where I dive into You know mismatch ddevs and how that works and I want to show some of the drive hours on here so if you look and first we can Show how we figure out the drive hours. I'm just running smart control dash a each drive and grepping for power on so then we could do Drive hours and And You can see based on the hours when you break these downs Which one every couple of years that I added more drives and expanded to vdevs and then we have the one here for 47,000 hours and if we divide 47,000 hours divided by 24 hours divided by 365 We get up about 5.3 years time on that particular drive And I just wanted to comment on that though because you know you can take older hardware You can find it for really good prices and it makes it pretty solid Freenia system especially when you just need what this particular use case for the server is it just holds all the backups It just everything lands on there and then gets replicated again to our more modern system And of course three two one backup means it also all critical data is replicated off-site as well So older systems do work really well And I have not had any problems running updates on it and it is still running on a flash drive Which I know some people like oh my gosh those flash drives could potentially wear out over time I purposely and I back up every time I have backups of this if the flash drive were to go I would just reload another flash drive or maybe actually put a hard drive in it's got plenty space for one and Put in another drive and restore the backup So I do take care of it, but in the question of longevity Yeah, it works quite well and the other side of that too is if you're looking to build a free NAS system You know the build it buy it build out of new hardware or shock a bunch of hard drives and get good deals on them It's great if you really need a high capacity on there, but when it comes to Pretty style of compatibility free NAS on older hardware that you can find you know used on eBay to get you started So I know not everyone has the budget to buy a brand new super micro super storage server Like the one I reviewed on this channel the other day That's I know not on everyone's budget My feelings overall and free NAS especially and I've done a couple of videos You know I generally am using older hardware for my demos and I just want to make sure that people one know It's very accessible to load free NAS and test it out And it's very reliable even on this over hardware even if it doesn't really old I5 4570 and Five years later of non-stop use You know because it really doesn't get turned off matter of fact the drive cycle time Let's go ahead and look at that real quick Besides the runtime hours the start stop count on this particular drives only 70 in five years So that's 70 reboots essentially or power cycles that this thing has gone through and started and stopped Over it's not just a reboot has actually power cycles So it's only been cycled 70 times over the last five years Which is really not that much will 5.3 years based on its hours of on time So just want to throw that out there because that question just kind of comes up once while and I don't know if it Yeah, I should do a dedicated video to old hardware or if I really can figure out a way to Articulate that better but I thought I'd throw it at the end of this video because the question seems to be asked a lot when I do a Free NAS video of what about older servers? Can I run it on my? Motherboard that I don't have to do with after I upgraded my computer and a lot of times the answer is yes It's great to run it on this old hardware It runs and you're not going to get the performance But it you know at least it's stable and if you're just need to place the land a bunch of extra data Because maybe you do have a performance system and you want to replicate over to the less expensive system So you have an extra backup works pretty good for that. 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