Setting up email alerts is a smart way of making sure nothing unexpected happens on a FreeNAS server without knowing about it or having to check the UI every now and then. A "should be straigthforward" way ough to be setting up a gmal account as the outgoing email. Nevertheless, it is not as simple as clicking "yeah, sure, email me". Objective Get a working E-Mail notification from FreeNAS by using a Gmail E-Mail address for sending the messages. Overview FreeNAS needs an smtp server and corresponding E-Mail account credentials to send E-Mails. E-Mails cannot be sent directly from within FreeN ..read more

There are plenty of guides explaining how to back up FreeNAS - now TrueNAS - servers. Personally, I found them either vague in what they actually back up and what will be the final outcome or they get way too complicated for people of home NAS servers who want something that "just works". So here it is how I am periodically backing up my FreeNAS server to USB external drives. Expected Result   Inspect the following example layout of a Source_Pool and an empty Destination_Pool. I will adhere to this naming in the rest of the post. Also, make sure you understand every command before fo ..read more

This is not message I wanted to see in my FreeNAS GUI when running brand new disks, but oh well. First scrub on July 19 2020 I discovered the error on July 29 2020 when moving some 300 GB data to one of my mirrored pools. After the initial panic of "what is this?!" I logged in to my server over ssh and checked what has happened with zpool status. zpoll status pool: Tank state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error.  An         attempt was made to correct the error.  Applications are unaffected. action: Determine ..read more

Reason This error arises when one tries to first stop a jail, add new mount point and then try to start the jail back up. This then presents an error message and the jail will not start up. I presume in my FreeNAS-11.2-U8 the underlying issue is that adding a new mount point does not automatically create the destination directory, hence the error message. Runtime error message when trying to start up the jail upon folloing incorrect steps to set up a new Syncthing sahre. Error: Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/main.py ..read more