Amazon Affiliate Store ️ we used on Kit (affiliate Links) ️ ITProTV. Backblaze online backup can theoretically backup a network drive, network share, or NAS device, but for business reasons do not allow it. Backing up mounted or network drives can easily be abused. A user could mount the 10 or 20 computers in their home or small business and back them all. Using Jails in FreeNAS to set up Backblaze B2 A Jail can be thought of as a virtual machine within the FreeNAS system. It is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization. It allows users who are comfortable using the command line to have more control over software installation and manage ment. Can confirm FreeNAS works as expected - this ticket should be closed. Thanks for your help! The issue was that Backblaze / B2 would retain old copies of files after deletion for about 3-4 days. This happens even when 'File Lifecycle' is set to 'Keep only the last version'.
FreeNAS
Freenas Backblaze Personal
FreeNAS is an operating system that can be installed on virtually any hardware platform to share data over a network. FreeNAS is the simplest way to create a centralized and easily accessible place for your data. Use FreeNAS with ZFS to protect, store, and back up all of your data. FreeNAS is used everywhere, for the home, small business, and the enterprise.
Unraid
Unraid Server OS 6 is a storage operating system developed by Lime Technology that is designed to scale with a system’s hardware. Its RAID design supports a mix of devices, filesystems, and sharing policies.
Backblaze Freenas
| Overview | FreeNAS 11.3 | Unraid |
| Ease of Use | Graphical User Interface | Graphical User Interface |
| Documentation | User Guide, How-To Videos, Training Videos | Wiki |
| Certified Hardware Available | SoHo and Business | No |
| Open Source Licence | Primarily 2-clause BSD | Commercial, requires paid licensing key |
| Base Operating System | FreeBSD 11.3 | unRAID Server OS 6.8 |
| File System | OpenZFS | XFS (default), BTRFS |
| Architecture | 64-bit | 64-bit |
| Downloads | Over 10 million | Unknown |
| Development Language | Python, Angular | Closed source |
| Open Source Repository | https://github.com/freenas | Closed source |
| Core Developers | 25+ | Lime Technology |
| Forums | 66,500+ users and over 550,000 posts | over 630,000 posts |
| YouTube Community Videos | 134,000+ results and 22K+ subscribers | 169,000 results |
| Social Media | 28,800+ Facebook likes, 13,700 Twitter followers | 7,425 twitter followers, 124 Google+ members |
| Restorability | Download/Upload configuration file, default settings restore, boot environments | /previous folder (CLI) |
| Built-in Visual Reporting | CPU, disk, memory, network, processes, uptime, iSCSI, ZFS | CPU, disk, memory, network, processes, uptime, Docker |
| Supported Disk Configurations | Stripe, mirror, RAIDZ1, Z2, Z3, hot-swap | Stripe, single parity, dual parity |
| Encrypted Storage Support | Software Disk Encryption, Self-Encrypting Drives (SED), and Dataset Encryption in TrueNAS CORE 12 | Software Disk Encryption, Command Line Self-Encrypting Disks |
| Third Party Application Support | Plugins, Jails, bhyve VMs, Docker VMs | Docker, KVM, Qemu |
| API | REST, websockets | none |
| Alerting Services | GUI, email, and SNMP alerts, integration with AWS-SNS, InfluxDB, Slack, Mattermost, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, VictorOps | GUI and email alerts |
| Built-in File Sharing Protocols | SMB, NFS, AFP, WebDAV | SMB, NFS, AFP |
| Built-in Block Storage Protocols | iSCSI | none |
| Other Built-in Network Protocols | rsync, FTP, TFTP, LLDP, SSH, DDNS, SNMP | FTP, rsync (CLI), SSH (CLI) |
| Built-in Cloud Synchronization | Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Box, Dropbox, FTP, Google Cloud Storage, HTTP, Hubic, Mega, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, Microsoft OneDrive, pCloud, SFTP, WebDAV, Yandex | Command line |
| Built-in Directory Services | Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos, NIS | Active Directory |
| Built-in Hardware Protocols | S.M.A.R.T., SCSI Enclosure Services (SES), UPS | S.M.A.R.T., UPS (APC only) |
| Built-in Virtualization | bhyve, Docker | KVM, Qemu |
Freenas Cloud Sync