Brandon Arnold
Cadet
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2016
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Hi all,
My WD MyBook is old and I want to solve a problem with my next NAS.
The WD is configured for nightly rsync with an AWS cold volume. The distro is a flavor of debian-arm that is not kept well up-to-date in my experience, and any time I need a package that requires heavy updates to the system I usually opt-out of that approach and find a workaround, instead of potentially bricking the device.
My question is whether the system included with a FreeNAS Mini/Mini XL will be a different story. Simple requirements are being able to install standard scripting environments and associated package managers, like ruby/gem, python/pip and node/npm.
Also, to what package repo is FreeNAS tied, and who maintains it?
Finally, what's it like recovering a FreeNAS Mini if you accidentally screw up an important config file? Is there an alternate to TCP/IP for configuration console in such a case?
Thanks so much,
Brandon
My WD MyBook is old and I want to solve a problem with my next NAS.
The WD is configured for nightly rsync with an AWS cold volume. The distro is a flavor of debian-arm that is not kept well up-to-date in my experience, and any time I need a package that requires heavy updates to the system I usually opt-out of that approach and find a workaround, instead of potentially bricking the device.
My question is whether the system included with a FreeNAS Mini/Mini XL will be a different story. Simple requirements are being able to install standard scripting environments and associated package managers, like ruby/gem, python/pip and node/npm.
Also, to what package repo is FreeNAS tied, and who maintains it?
Finally, what's it like recovering a FreeNAS Mini if you accidentally screw up an important config file? Is there an alternate to TCP/IP for configuration console in such a case?
Thanks so much,
Brandon