Then, you can create a mountpoint (note: the mountpoint probably won't persist across reboots):
Nevertheless, to do this, add the following to /boot/nf to automatically load the fuse ko: If you think of FreeNAS as an appliance, this is a hack that may stop working at any point. Performance probably won't be all that great (haven't tested this). You can actually mount NTFS-formatted drives on a FreeNAS host. This gives you a lot of flexibility (use whatever drive/filesystem you want), but may be slow because you may be limited by your network transfer speed and small devices like RPi's are typically further constrained in terms of network and usb performance.Ģ. This could be a simple device, like a Raspberry Pi. Pull the data off your FreeNAS using another device. Having spent a fair amount of time looking at options to achieve this, there are only 2 possibilities I've come up with to back up to non-zfs drives:ġ. That being said, I agree that many home users running smaller systems need to back up to usb disks. I expect the response would be that FreeNAS is an appliance that doesn't officially support this. Thanks for reading, I hope this turns into a useful discussion. Is it possible to configure FreeNAS, somehow, to mount an exFAT formatted USB drive and create an Rsync type cron backup for:
CONNECT USB BACKUP DRIVE TO ESXI WINDOWS
Supported natively in Windows and MacOS, supported in Linux with exfat-fuse and supporting in FreeBSD with fusefs-exfat. Ruling out NTFS for Linux/BSD write compatibility and FAT32 for the file-size limits, it would appear to leave one contender.
What's left? Is there a file system that FreeNAS/BSD can mount, is generally considered to be 'okay' for use on USB drives and readable by most consumer OSes? However the simple fact that modern ext4 is not supported on the FreeNAS FreeBSD current kernel is enough to rule this out too. There is a lot of commentary out there from FreeNAS ultras about why ext is baaaaaaaaad. Most people now seem to turn to ext3/4, the Linux-Lover's fs of choice. Can we backup to a non-ZFS, locally attached USB device? So, the feature request is now getting narrowed down. In any case, it probably makes more sense in a home-brew one-shot backup solution to have the backup on a different file-system to avoid a fs level corruption ruining everything. However the argument that ZFS is not particularly compatible with any subsequent data recovery use-case (reading the files on your Windows laptop for example) is compelling enough to rule out ZFS as the file-system of choice for this purpose. Though even the experts don't seem to agree on exactly why this is. So the next, often touted, issue is that supposedly ZFS over USB is baaaaaaaaad. For whatever reason, lets keep the faith that as many threads suggest, backing up to a locally attached USB drive is actually a sought after feature for home users no matter how unsuitable it might be for enterprise level deployments.
CONNECT USB BACKUP DRIVE TO ESXI PC
Fine, but some people don't have PCs always-on in their house, or perhaps their only PC is the laptop that they occasionally need to take out of the house yet still want backups to continue. The typical community response at this point is that plugging USB drives into FreeNAS should be avoided and you should do the backup from a client PC on the network. It has two advantages:ġ) it is a backup, and if the sh*t hits the fan in your main Zpool any backup is better than no backupĢ) it is easily man-portable and can be swapped in and out to store off-site or quickly grabbed in the case of a disaster. but stick with me.īacking up to an external USB drive directly from the FreeNAS host hardware is a sought after feature and a real use-case for home users. From reading all the Googled threads on this topic, I feel like I'm going to get a pile of abuse for this post.
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