macOS High Sierra (10.13)
It’s that time of year when Apple releases a bunch of Public Beta versions of its upcoming software, for macOS, iOS, and tvOS 😀
Plex Tools – PlexPy and PlexEmail
I’ve mentioned Plex in various other blogs (like here and here), mainly because I LOVE PLEX!
CrashPlan
When I built my main FreeNAS server, the machine it replaced was put into backup duties with a nightly replication created to move some of the files from one (freenas1) to the other (freenas2). freenas1 has 9 x 4TB drives configured in an RAIDZ2 pool (similar to RAID6) which means that any two drives could fail, and I wouldn’t loose any data, but everyone should know that redundancy is no substitute for a backup! Using two drives for parity, along with the ZFS overhead leaves me with around 24TB of useable space on freenas1. freenas2 only has 5 x 4TB drives, but these are just configured as a stripe (like RAID0) so provide more storage at the expense of any redundancy. It leaves me with just over 18TB of useable space, so not enough to backup a full freenas1, but certainly the most important stuff. (more…)
New Plex Jail
I thought I’d rebuild my Plex Media Server (PMS) jail today, so it’s using the latest FreeBSD 10.3 template which would hopefully mean when the next PMS update was released, I’d have no problem updating the jail. While the 9.3 template jails continue to work on FreeNAS 9.10, comments on the forum seem to suggest that updating using packages or ports won’t work, so I was trying to get ahead of the game! (more…)
More SSL fun with LetsEncrypt & Certbot
The SSL certificate for my company domain (apeconsulting.co.uk) was due to expire at the beginning of June and was slightly out of kilter with my other certificates. They are all LetsEncrypt ones and are created using Certbot in a jail on my FreeNAS server, but for some reason Certbot had decided it doesn’t want to work anymore, which was one of the main reasons for updating my FreeNAS server here. So after the upgrade, I had to decide whether to rebuild my NGINX proxy server (which I used for running Certbot) or to build a jail just for running Certbot and maintaining the certificates. (more…)
FreeNAS Manual Update
OK, so I wasn’t expecting this to be straight forward, but I also didn’t expect to fall at the first hurdle!
I knew I couldn’t use the auto updater built into FreeNAS, as this will take me to the latest stable or nightly train. I was hoping I could just download the 9.10.1-U4 iso file from download.freenas.org and then use the Manual Update button to run this. This throws up an error message before it’s even copied the files across to the temporary location. (more…)
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