How to keep FreeNAS up to date in your SmartHome
It is important to keep FreeNAS up to date. To keep from running into problems that have been fixed in updates released since your install or possibly new features that …
How to backup Windows with FreeNAS in your SmartHome
What you see here is the bare minimum in order to be able to backup a Windows workstation (windows 10 in this example). If you want to do a bare …
How to setup mirrored boot flash for FreeNAS in your SmartHome
Since FreeNAS mostly accesses the USB boot flash drive during startup, it never hurts to be prepared for the boot flash drive to fail or get corrupted. The only cost …
How to deal with a problem NIC in FreeNAS for your Smarthome
Imagine my surprise when I setup my FreeNAS using what I thought was a supported NIC based on the hardware requirements list. I found a USB C based ethernet NIC …
How to setup FreeNAS for your Smarthome
This episode will let you follow my journey on setting up FreeNAS for my SmartHome. This is part 1 of what will be a multi part series due to all …
How to monitor hardware in Docker using Netdata in your Smarthome
While there are several commands in Docker that will help you see some of the information that Netdata gives you, Netdata gives it you to in a graphic web interface. …
How to use WatchTower to automatically update Docker containers
Watchtower is a valuable option to have to help simplify the updating of containers automatically instead of having to go through each Docker Host and manually going through the update …
How to use setup an Intel NUC for your Smarthome
There are times you need more than the Raspberry Pi you have been using for your Smarthome work. Whether it is because of a processor requirement for a Docker container, …
How to Implement Raspberry Pi or Intel NUC for your Smarthome
It seems like there is a never ending possibilities of what you can run in your Smarthome on a Raspberry Pi. There may be times when a Raspberry Pi may …
How to create a flash drive image on your IODD-2541 using DeepBurner in your SmartHome
One of the features that attracted me to the IODD-2541 was the virtual flash drive images. Unfortunately, it wasn’t in the manual that the IODD-2541 had to formatted in NTFS …