KHE (Posts about admin)

Culling Duplicate Photos with rmlint

Kenneth H. East — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 05:00:00 GMT

I have twenty-five years worth of old personal hard drives that I wish to scour for photos and videos that should be preserved prior to destroying the drives. In searching for tools to assist me in this effort, I ran across rmlint¹, fim², and fdupes³.

FreeNAS Backup to Disk

Kenneth H. East — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 06:00:00 GMT

Notes on backing up FreeNAS11 running ZFS.

FreeNAS with SMB, AFP, and TimeMachine

Kenneth H. East — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 06:00:00 GMT

These are notes on how I setup SMB and AFP shares on FreeNAS 11. The key to successful use of both in an Apple environment is to use AFP only for Time Machine backups and to use SMB for everything else. I was unable to make the two protocols coexist under any other configuration ¹. This is really not so bad, as Apple has been migrating towards the exclusive use of SMB for some time. These notes describe how to:

Configuring dnsmasq in a BSD Jail on FreeNAS 11

Kenneth H. East — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 06:00:00 GMT

These are notes on how I setup dnsmasq to act as a DNS and DHCP server running in a BSD Jail on FreeNAS 11.