It has taken me weeks and lots of reading to decide between the few good servers out there; FreeNAS, MediaVault, OpenNAS, etc.
I settled now for FreeNAS. During the research, which includes an almost complete read of the 306 page documentation, I've tried as well to find an answer to this question below.
I have installed, far from configured fully, but getting there. And part of this configuration involves the transfer of data.
Data: music, pictures, movies, each that I'd like a folder for (I'm sure in FreeNAS that word, folder, does not exist). Anyway, the pressing matter now is how do I copy this data from an existing server that has services such as ftp, ssh, SAMBA, to my FreeNAS box. I finally accepted that I could not simply plug the drives in the FreeNAS server, sad, but OK. But I don't know how to move all this data to the new FreeNAS server.
Perhaps a relevant question, since those three categories will span several hard drives (another old term) it would be good to know how to configure Plex or emby, or any of the music server applications there, to scan multiple hard drives. I don't know how, perhaps you do.
Perhaps while you're reading this, you may have an idea of a plugin that will serve pictures to a TV. There's none such currently in the official plugin on the WEBUI. I don't need a loaded plugin to do this, something small and simple to all me enjoy pictures I take on TV.
I'm looking forward to this long-term relationship and change. It's my first post; please be nice.
I settled now for FreeNAS. During the research, which includes an almost complete read of the 306 page documentation, I've tried as well to find an answer to this question below.
I have installed, far from configured fully, but getting there. And part of this configuration involves the transfer of data.
Data: music, pictures, movies, each that I'd like a folder for (I'm sure in FreeNAS that word, folder, does not exist). Anyway, the pressing matter now is how do I copy this data from an existing server that has services such as ftp, ssh, SAMBA, to my FreeNAS box. I finally accepted that I could not simply plug the drives in the FreeNAS server, sad, but OK. But I don't know how to move all this data to the new FreeNAS server.
Perhaps a relevant question, since those three categories will span several hard drives (another old term) it would be good to know how to configure Plex or emby, or any of the music server applications there, to scan multiple hard drives. I don't know how, perhaps you do.
Perhaps while you're reading this, you may have an idea of a plugin that will serve pictures to a TV. There's none such currently in the official plugin on the WEBUI. I don't need a loaded plugin to do this, something small and simple to all me enjoy pictures I take on TV.
I'm looking forward to this long-term relationship and change. It's my first post; please be nice.