Monthly Archives: March 2010
Learning FreeNAS – a review
Writing books about software almost certainly means that the book will be out-of-date sooner rather than later. This is even more the case when writing open source software under active development. However, this has not stopped Packt Publishing from releasing … Continue reading
VortexBox 1.2 released
Andrew Gillis has announced the release of VortexBox 1.2, a Fedora-based Linux distribution with the goal of turning an unused computer into an easy-to-use music server or jukebox: “VortexBox 1.2 released. The VortexBox community has been working hard on this release. … Continue reading
Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Fedora 12
This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Fedora 12) to a distributed replicated storage with GlusterFS. Nodes 1 and 2 (replication1) as well as 3 and 4 (replication2) will mirror each other, and replication1 and replication2 will be combined to one … Continue reading
SUN OpenStorage presentation
“At work (client site) SUN made a presentation about their OpenStorage products (Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems) today. From a technology point of view, the software side is nothing new to me. Using SSDs for zfs as a read-/write-cache is something we … Continue reading
Use OpenFiler as Free VMware ESX SAN Server
“Many of the VMware ESX Server advanced features cannot be used without a SAN (storage area network). Besides the high cost of the ESX Server software and the Virtual Infrastructure Suite, a SAN can be a huge barrier to using … Continue reading
A guide to network attached Storage Devices for Backup
The New York Times has put together a guide helping you find the best NAS storage servers for your need: “… [a] NAS provides a central hard drive on which you can store, share and back up all files from … Continue reading
NAS 2.0 adapter from Addonics
The NAS 2.0 adapter is Addonics‘ 2nd generation NAS adapter that supports the Gigabit network to double the performance. Comes with two high speed USB ports, the NAS 2.0 adapter enables any USB hard drives or SSD and a USB … Continue reading
FreeNAS installation – setting up Unison (video)
Pox and Ragble explain how to use Unison to sync a Mac computer to a FreeNAS box. Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored … Continue reading
FreeNAS installation – setting up rsync (video)
Pox and Ragble explain how to use rsync for mirroring data stored the FreeNAS Box. rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. YouTube Direkt
Step-by-step how to make a FreeNAS Box (video)
Pox and Ragble give an in depth guide for making your own Network Attached Storage device with FreeNAS. YouTube Direkt
