#Cannot install syncthing freenas free#
Having a free Sunday was the perfect opportunity to do just that. I have been an extremely satisfied user of FreeNAS for many years, but had not updated my system for quite a while. A good starting point might be the following YouTube video. Extracting syncthing-1.10.0: #įrom here, you can just continue with the normal process of setting thins up. Installing syncthing-1.10.0.Ĭreating group 'syncthing' with gid '983'.Ĭreating user 'syncthing' with uid '983'. You get the same warning as just before and need to confirm the installation.
#Cannot install syncthing freenas install#
Once this is complete, install Syncthing with pkg install syncthing You will get a warning about different OS versions and need to confirm that you want to continue. To do this, issue the following command: # pkg bootstrap -f I am ok with that, as long as only applications and not OS tools are installed (you should carefully think, whether this is also ok for you!). The workaround is to forcibly switch to an existing repository, even if it does not match the FreeBSD version. The problem with FreeNAS 11.1 is that the underlying FreeBSD is no longer maintained (EOL) and therefore no package repository exists for this version. The next step was to install Syncthing with pkg.
The solution I laid my eyes on is Syncthing and I want to run it in a FreeNAS jail on both systems. This is planned to last for at least two months and I want all my data synchronized constantly. Think of this as something like a burn-in to ensure that there are no dead-on-arrival components in the new box, esp. During the initial phase nas2 will still be my primary storage location. But IMHO nobody can be really sure for at least a couple of weeks that no hidden errors exist.Īs part of moving to a new FreeNAS box, I want to replicate data from the old (nas2, running FreeNAS 11.1 U7) to the new (nas3, running FreeNAS 11.3 U5) machine. Yes, I have seen and read many highly positive comments about v12 and how stable it is. And I wanted to stay flexible, even if that meant to spend more money (hardware specs are considerably higher than the Synology model in question) and time for setting things up.įinally, I am not going for TrueNAS 12 right now but start with FreeNAS 11.3 U5. A mass market product needs to keep support tickets under control and the only way for that is to constrain people’s options. But that comes at the price of limitations. From a usability and ease-of-use perspective I got the impression that Synology is (far?) superior. The core reason why I stayed with FreeNAS is that it I have flexibility. There were long deliberations as to whether I should go for Synology instead. I am currently in the process of switching to a new FreeNAS box. me – see above) has to learn this the hard way, I guess.Ī side note on NAS gear that is typically more in the consumer space. All of a sudden there was budget for keeping backups longer than just 30 days, a properly segmented network, and other things their IT department had wanted for more than a decade. A friend told me about a malware attack on his employer about a year ago. The same goes for many companies, unfortunately. That is when they are willing to invest time and money.
Until they loose 10 years of digital pictures, esp. at work) initially think of my efforts as overkill. I would still prefer streamers, but that is a different story.Īll the people I know (incl. Since then I have used hard disks in various ways, since streamers have become a prohibitive upfront investment for me. It was in perfect working condition but 12 GB capacity per cartridge started to be an issue. Well, that’s when I took it out of service. This only lasted 3 years and after that abysmal experience I switched to a QIC streamer (Tandberg SLR-24), which lasted until about 2008.
and went for a DAT streamer in 1996 (HP C1536). I started with simple floppy disks for source code, spreadsheets, etc. Ever since, I have been paranoid about backups (and more importantly restores). And it was also the first and last time that I lost data. This was a couple of years before (consumer) hard disks started to internally re-map bad sectors. I started with PCs in 1990 on a 286 with a 42 MB hard disk (Seagate ST251-1), which about one year later had issues with faulty sectors.
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