Deepak Agarwal
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- Dec 6, 2013
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Hi
This is all in the context of my home network situation.
I have been able to use one of my older PC's running Windows XP SP 3 (32 bit) in to a FreeNAS box for media content sharing - and it works for what I wanted it to do. It has a brand new physical HDD on which I have created a ZFS volume, a CIFS share called 'Share' and three (3) folders therein called 'Video', 'Photos' and 'Music' with content loaded on to these folders. This share is now visible to all my devices - other desktops, laptops, mobile phone and tablet - all good!
I also have another older PC's running Windows XP SP 3 (32 bit) that I currently use as a File Server, the intent being that all work/school files are stored in/available from one central location to other PC's/laptops - this arrangement works fine. I have Genie Backup Manager Pro 9 installed on this PC for my backups of this data on an external HDD. I do differential backups and keep 6 differential backup copies (1 for each weekday and Saturday) and do a full backup on the 7th day (Sunday) deleting all of these differential backup copies . The backup job is run every night at 'Log Off' (Switch Off) as a log off script batch file - I don't have the batch file here at work but I can post the contents of it later tonight once I get home. Essentially, it continually checks if all the other client PC's in turn have been switched off, waits until all of the client PC's have been turned off and then runs the backup job. optionally, I can also start this backup job manually, if I may have a need to do so at any time!
Now that I have this FreeNAS box, I was wondering if I can use this FreeNAS box to serve as a File Server as well in addtion to it serving a shared media content box? Is it possible for me to do the following on this FreeNAS box that I have :-
1. Install another physical HDD to this FreeNAS box of mine and use this for work/school data (I would ideally like to separate the media and work files)
2. Install the Genie Backup Manager Pro 9 somewhere on this FreeNAS box (I couldn't figure out how to install Windows software on the FreeNAS box) and run a log off script file to do exactly what I currently do on my File Server computer.
Any pointers in this regards shall be highly valued.
P.S. I don't have a need to backup this data on a physical HDD inside this box - its quite ok for it to be backed up on an external HDD as I do for my media content.
Best regards
Deepak
This is all in the context of my home network situation.
I have been able to use one of my older PC's running Windows XP SP 3 (32 bit) in to a FreeNAS box for media content sharing - and it works for what I wanted it to do. It has a brand new physical HDD on which I have created a ZFS volume, a CIFS share called 'Share' and three (3) folders therein called 'Video', 'Photos' and 'Music' with content loaded on to these folders. This share is now visible to all my devices - other desktops, laptops, mobile phone and tablet - all good!
I also have another older PC's running Windows XP SP 3 (32 bit) that I currently use as a File Server, the intent being that all work/school files are stored in/available from one central location to other PC's/laptops - this arrangement works fine. I have Genie Backup Manager Pro 9 installed on this PC for my backups of this data on an external HDD. I do differential backups and keep 6 differential backup copies (1 for each weekday and Saturday) and do a full backup on the 7th day (Sunday) deleting all of these differential backup copies . The backup job is run every night at 'Log Off' (Switch Off) as a log off script batch file - I don't have the batch file here at work but I can post the contents of it later tonight once I get home. Essentially, it continually checks if all the other client PC's in turn have been switched off, waits until all of the client PC's have been turned off and then runs the backup job. optionally, I can also start this backup job manually, if I may have a need to do so at any time!
Now that I have this FreeNAS box, I was wondering if I can use this FreeNAS box to serve as a File Server as well in addtion to it serving a shared media content box? Is it possible for me to do the following on this FreeNAS box that I have :-
1. Install another physical HDD to this FreeNAS box of mine and use this for work/school data (I would ideally like to separate the media and work files)
2. Install the Genie Backup Manager Pro 9 somewhere on this FreeNAS box (I couldn't figure out how to install Windows software on the FreeNAS box) and run a log off script file to do exactly what I currently do on my File Server computer.
Any pointers in this regards shall be highly valued.
P.S. I don't have a need to backup this data on a physical HDD inside this box - its quite ok for it to be backed up on an external HDD as I do for my media content.
Best regards
Deepak