by wwarren | Jul 24, 2021 | Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Open Source, Storage
One of a clients backups are using 5-8 terabytes of disk space on a cloud backup. the disk usage on the NAS itself(due to zfs native dompression is 2.7 TB. It’s taken a while to figure out but it turns out Rclone(which is what truenas uses for it’s cloud...
by wwarren | Mar 16, 2021 | Annoucements, FreeBSD, Linux, Open Source, Research Projects, Storage
With the completion of my ransomware resistance storage research and product announcement, I have now embarked on a new research project. I am looking for an open source virtualization host. I have already tried XCP-NG and I just could not get it to work...
by wwarren | Jan 3, 2021 | Dell, Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Hardware, Open Source, Storage
I have had a Dell R520 server here at my location for a bit now and it’s been a great upgrade for my business. In addition to providing network storage it also has been the final testbed for my new network attached storage product I recently announced. I have...
by wwarren | Jan 2, 2021 | Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, General, Hardware, Open Source, Storage, Windows, Windows 10
I had 1909 on my machine and it decided to upgrade to 20h2(mainly because i forgot to disable feature updates after some windows maintenance). Things immediately went downhill from there. I knew something was funky when it kept saying my E drive(my iscsi gamecache)...
by wwarren | Dec 9, 2020 | Firewalls, Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Hosting, Linux, Open Source, PFSense
RedHat announces the death of CentOS. To quote the article: In the past, CentOS has been a community build of the current RHEL source, providing a robust production distro for those willing to do without Red Hat support. When RHEL gets a fix, the project aims to have...
by wwarren | Dec 4, 2020 | Annoucements, Free/TrueNAS, Hardware, Open Source
Remember this post? This has been 4 years in the making. I have tested this extensively at my office and at a clients remote location. With ransomware going nuts I am targeting this launch towards protecting against ransomware and offering an affordable, onsite...
