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I'm not quite sure if it's correct using the term NAS for it,
but I simply added several disks into my old PC, placed it in the attic without keyboard, nor monitor,
connected it to our LAN, to have some shared storage (13TB) accessable to all machines within our LAN.

I simply installed 'ordinary' FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE on it (updated it of course; now it runs 13.3).
vim, samba, svn, rkhunter, and rsync are the only packages I added.
Configured NFS, and samba.
That's it.
Works.
Works fine.
 
victort said:
… It’s standard as I understand that you can run a higher point release on a lower point release host. You can run any 13.x jail on any 13.x host.

But the main release version must stay the same.
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According to <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/640586>, a 13.2 jail on a 13.1 host was not supported.

1722800255389.pngThe FreeBSD Handbook offers a tip.
 
%pupil -sceptical said:
I'm not quite sure if it's correct using the term NAS for it,
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That's what most people would call a NAS.

In my basement, there is one FreeBSD machine. It is a NAS (it servers files via NFS, sometimes Samba when I can be bothered to configure it, and HTTP). It is also a network router (with pf firewall), a network server (DNS, DHCP, NTP, lpd), and one of the machines I often log in to do work. It is de-facto headless (the monitor and keyboard are only used for minimal maintenance, when the network is down).
 
ralphbsz said:
(the monitor and keyboard are only used for minimal maintenance, when the network is down).
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...or when I messed up things so badly, the system does not reach a level for ssh-usage ?

Yes, you're right, thanks.
I sometimes like to tend to some understatement about my things; especially when seeing what the pros here maintain and deal with it daily...
 
I found a script here that did a small amount of snapshot replication but not near enough of what I wanted it to do. So I forked it, added a bunch of functionality, and submitted a PR. It was accepted, so now I have pretty much everything I need for a zfs backup on XigmaNAS.

Can be called via cron, and even has a small script to “tail” the last log file for a SUCCESS or FAILED status.
 
Several months ago I installed zvault over core right in the web ui like a normal update, which worked with no drama.

But now I'm starting to run into grief with jails because of how frequently freebsd updates and how quickly freebsd stops supporting old versions. Even 13.5 is already eol while zvault is still stuck at 13.3 and a jail cannot get any newer than the host, but the 13.3 pkg repos are going to disappear soon... So now I looking at xigma which is at 14.3, but really, since I'll have to manually manage jails on xigma, maybe the front-ends are just not that worth it and I might as well just install plain freebsd and have 15 today and never have any problem updating either jails or the host. Maybe there is some other way to get a pretty dashboard that doesn't actually get in the way of updating the system. The xigma embedded thing sounds interesting though.
 
bkw777 said:
Several months ago I installed zvault over core right in the web ui like a normal update, which worked with no drama.

But now I'm starting to run into grief with jails because of how frequently freebsd updates and how quickly freebsd stops supporting old versions. Even 13.5 is already eol while zvault is still stuck at 13.3 and a jail cannot get any newer than the host, but the 13.3 pkg repos are going to disappear soon... So now I looking at xigma which is at 14.3, but really, since I'll have to manually manage jails on xigma, maybe the front-ends are just not that worth it and I might as well just install plain freebsd and have 15 today and never have any problem updating either jails or the host. Maybe there is some other way to get a pretty dashboard that doesn't actually get in the way of updating the system. The xigma embedded thing sounds interesting though.
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If it helps, XigmaNAS has the Bastille Manager plugin which allows you to graphically manage jails. You just need to install the OneButtonInstaller (which might be a problem -- low documentation), then select Bastille Manager from the plugin list.
 
opt4951 said:
If it helps, XigmaNAS has the Bastille Manager plugin which allows you to graphically manage jails. You just need to install the OneButtonInstaller (which might be a problem -- low documentation), then select Bastille Manager from the plugin list.
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Or just install the Bastille extension as a single command from the GUI.

I’m running that and it works just fine.
 
I formatted a 10TB HDD whole-disk no partition table ZFS, zfs-import'd, and set-up vsftpd (FTP server, notes); worked great no problem! (Filezilla GUI Windows/Linux/FreeBSD, Kodi's in-client FTP browser for TV videos)
 
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