Creating a backup of a Virtual Machine (Virtual Box) from you FreeNAS server and storing it offline in a safe spot should be part of a disaster recovery plan. I had setup a PiHole DNS advert blocking virtual machine, (you can follow the FreeNAS: Pi-Hole Virtual Machine Install article to install your own) and while … More FreeNAS: Backup Virtual Machine
Installing Pi-Hole (PiHole) as a Virutal Machine on your FreeNAS server is an excellent way to free up your Raspberry Pi, consolidate all your services on a single server and to save a few buck on your electricity bill. Pi-Hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS … More FreeNAS: Pi-Hole Virtual Machine Install
A backup of your FreeNAS jails is important given the time and effort spend on setting up, customizing and configuring these jails. We can use IOCAGE to complete a backup of your jails. This article will show you how to simplistically export and backup your jails and also how to create a script which would … More FreeNAS: Backup Jails Automatically Using IOCAGE Import and Export
Setting up an encrypted cloud backup, which backs up your data off-site, is absolutely essential as part of a comprehensive backup plan for any data kept on your FreeNAS server, that you care about at all. Off-site backups protect your data in case of the catastrophic event: fire, flood, server explodes, earthquake, nuclear war, etc. … More FreeNAS: Setup Encrypted Cloud Backup
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