The plug-ins use FreeBSD's virtual "jails," which means a problem with one plug-in won't affect anything in the rest of the system. Even if all the redundancy features in a FreeNAS system were to fail, the data would still be recoverable by restoring a backed-up snapshot to a new system.Ī FreeNAS appliance can act as an iTunes streaming media server, a universal plug-and-play (uPNP) server, or a web server, all using available plug-ins. FreeNAS can send snapshots incrementally, reducing backup sizes.
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Thanks to its ZFS support, FreeNAS performs "snapshots" of its file systems for local and remote backups, similar to Windows Restore Points. And it can be configured as a backup server for Windows Shadow Copy and Apple Time Machine.
FreeNAS also can act as an FTP and TFTP server, and it supports rsync for backup to and from the appliance. And iSCSI support makes FreeNAS a good choice for shared storage of virtual machines. (For those new to FreeBSD, the default parameters worked fine in our testing there's no need to change OS parameters, or know anything about FreeBSD, for that matter.)įreeNAS supports multiple file-sharing protocols, including CIFS, NFS, and iSCSI, making it suitable as a file-sharing device for Windows, Mac, and Unix/ Linux clients.
Even allowing for our strong CLI bias, we could achieve virtually every task from the Web UI as well, right down to setting low-level parameters in the FreeBSD operating system on which FreeNAS is based. Once the system is set up, it's managed by either a well-designed Web interface or the command-line interface (CLI). Installation is fast and straightforward.
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