Hi All,
I am using FreeNAS in a SOHO environment. I am running out of space.
I currently back up my iMac to an AFS share on my FreeNAS. to a locally USB attached drive and to Dropbox, so I'm not too worried about redundancy.
My FreeNAS TimeMachine AFS is using ~ 3.5TB of space.
I was considering buying an additional external USB3 8TB disk, and attaching it to the FreeNAS box. I'd then set that up with either ZFS or UFS and set it up as an AFS share, and move my FreeNAS Time Machine backup to that.
Is that a supported configuration?
I also have a 'scratch' area on my FreeNAS, so I'd consider another 8TB for that, and reserve the RAID-Z2 resiliance for data which I really care about. Documents, photos, etc.
Any reason I shouldn't do the above?
I am using FreeNAS in a SOHO environment. I am running out of space.
I currently back up my iMac to an AFS share on my FreeNAS. to a locally USB attached drive and to Dropbox, so I'm not too worried about redundancy.
My FreeNAS TimeMachine AFS is using ~ 3.5TB of space.
I was considering buying an additional external USB3 8TB disk, and attaching it to the FreeNAS box. I'd then set that up with either ZFS or UFS and set it up as an AFS share, and move my FreeNAS Time Machine backup to that.
Is that a supported configuration?
I also have a 'scratch' area on my FreeNAS, so I'd consider another 8TB for that, and reserve the RAID-Z2 resiliance for data which I really care about. Documents, photos, etc.
Any reason I shouldn't do the above?