there are several approaches to this, some people say to go with a snapshot-replicate method, other people go with a snapshot – zfs send recieve method. the wrong way to do it is anything that leaves the server: over the network from a fileshare, or using Rsync. the first thing to understand is what a…

I recently bought a SAS controller card for my FreeNAS computer. Since my onboard motherboard controller was maxed out at 3 drives, I needed something for expansion. I chose a LSI 9217-8i controller as it was well recommended on the blogs around the internet, and had great support for BSD based OS’s. Only problem was…