Hi Guys!
On the subject, but more about GUI graphical manager and less not about indexing for searching (tell me if I should put this somewhere else).
Using a freenas as a homeuser backup system, I often find I want to sort some stuff. Often when I have time for that I am not at home, so I do it over SSH and command line (actually I guess I always do it over SSH and CL).
Writing the long file-/directory names is a chore. Could the solution be a setup up of a graphical instance in a Jail, PC-BSD or something and then remotely connecting to that? So that I can have a graphical file manager for managing my stuff locally on the server? Copying and moving files to and from the server (I don't want them to go on a run-trip to the computer I'm using)
I'm sure that can be done in various ways, but if a freenas/freebsd-guru could give me a pointer to what might be the easiest way that would be great :)
Maybe there's something I don't know about the command line that would make it much easier dealing with long file and directory names? Dragging and dropping just seems much easier.
Thank you :)
You can use the 'tab' key in the terminal to auto-complete file names. It's super-convenient, and thanks to it I find accidental tabs in the middle of documents I write. On that note, enable ssh and use putty. The webgui 'shell' is excruciatingly terrible.
If you enable ssh, you can use an sftp client to move files around. Examples of such clients are filezilla and winscp. I prefer winscp because it doesn't try to install the 'ask toolbar' or such nonsense.
If you have primarily cifs shares, use Windows explorer or robocopy. If you are using Windows 8, then moving files around a cifs share happens entirely server-side (but not copying between shares).
Moving files between datasets will always be somewhat slow because datasets are separate filesystems, and freenas has to copy the file and then remove the original.