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Gary Sims (Author)
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Publication Date: September 10, 2008 | ISBN-10: 1847194680 | ISBN-13: 978-1847194688
This book is a comprehensive guide to building and using resilient network-attached storage solutions for your business using FreeNAS. Written in an accessible style and filled with facts you need to know, this book will show you how to get things done the right way. This book is for systems administrators who want a low cost, simple way to provide large amounts of network-attached storage. It does not assume knowledge of BSD, and will work for people using FreeNAS in any network environment.

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Gary Sims is a freelance Linux/FreeBSD consultant and writer from the UK and has been working with open-source software since the mid 1990s. He first saw Linux while completing his degree in Business Information Systems at Portsmouth University. Then while working for Digital Equipment Corp he came in to contact with DEC's Ultrix and later Digital UNIX (formerly OSF/1). While developing enterprise software for DEC on its UNIX platforms he became more and convinced of the benefits of open source and open-source Unix-like operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD. After leaving DEC he became a software contractor and after moving to Romania in 2003 he became a freelance Linux/FreeBSD consultant and writer and started publishing articles for the Open Source Technology Group (owners of Linux.com and SourceForge.net). This then led to him writing his first book with Packt.

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  • Paperback: 244 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (September 10, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1847194680
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847194688
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
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Gary Sims
Gary Sims is a freelance Linux/FreeBSD consultant and writer from the UK and has been working with open-source software since the mid 1990s.

He first came in to contact with open source software while completing his degree in Business Information Systems. His first job after university was with Digital Equipment Corp. While developing enterprise software for DEC on its UNIX platforms he became more and convinced of the benefits of open source and open-source Unix-like operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD.

After leaving DEC he became a software contractor and after moving to Romania in 2003 he became a freelance Linux/FreeBSD consultant and writer and started publishing articles for the Open Source Technology Group (owners of Linux.com and SourceForge.net). This then led to him writing his first book.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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This was my first excursion into a *nix or Free* type of operating system. I did not know what CHOWN or CHMOD was a couple of weeks ago. I scrathed around the web and found out about both and many other things about FreeNAS.

But I thought my knowledge was lacking so I purchased the Learning FreeNAS book. I have looked at several areas including the ineffective Index.

This book is for some far distant, previous release of FreeNAS and has less than half of what you need to know about many subjects. It does not mention anything about installing on a Hard Disk or Flash drive. I does not mention LiveISO/USB booting & operating.

So installation pretty much a miss. Tried looking up several things in the index. Missing. Wanted to know more about the CIFS configuration. The bottom half of the current screen is missing from the book.

To sum it up, almost everything you need to know, and more than is in this book, is available FOR FREE, on the web. Start with YouTube. With any amount of *nix or Free* knowledge, you already know more than this book does.

Such simple questions as how to install on USB Flash or CF Flash or hard drive are left, essentially unanswered. He goes into configuring your BIOS to boot from USB but not how to make the very thing you need to have to do such a boot from USB flash.

I feel cheated. There are some other sections which contain some useful information but I expect this is on the web, too. If updated to current version(s), this would be a valuable book but as it is, it is only marginally valuable.

Mike Morrow
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Way outdated February 27, 2011
By Dan-o
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Book is based on FreeNAS version 6.8, current version from web is 7.2. Menus are all different and book has no mention of ZFS. Almost everything I looked at was outdated. I'm returning the book as I can find more current information on-line.
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Learning FreeNAS was Great! September 29, 2008
Format:Paperback
Packt Publishing has done it again! Another great book about technology that matters. This time I am talking about FreeNAS. If you are like me and you have oodles of movies, music, pictures and just plain data that you want to keep safe and secure, and possibly free up some space on your main PC or laptop, then you really need to know about FreeNAS. There is no better way to know about FreeNAS than to read Learning FreeNAS from Packt Publishing.

As with most of their books the book is around 230 pages, short but crammed with good information. Author, Gary Sims, starts out with an overview of was NAS is and how it can play into your current network and usability.

Gary wastes no time after the first chapters digging in and configuring FreeNAS. He walks you through adding a disk, mounting it, and then connecting to it from a remote PC.

This isn't a super indepth book, I would wager anyone who is familiar with installing software and has the need for storage will be able to follow the principles laid out in the book. Here are some highlights of the book:

* Understand the concepts of Network Attached Storage (NAS) and where FreeNAS server fits into your business.
* Install, configure, and upgrade the FreeNAS server.
* Deploy your NAS following best practices to plan capacity, hardware, backup, redundancy, and network infrastructure.
* Deploy FreeNAS as a file sharing, backup, streaming server by using different protocols like CIFS, NFS, FTP, RSYNC, Unison, AFP, and UPnP.
* Use FreeNAS as a bridge to Storage Area Networks by using SCSI.
* Connect to the FreeNAS server from Windows, OS X, Linux, or UPnP devices.
* Carry out common administrative tasks: add and authenticate users, rebooting and shutting down, network management, and configure FreeNAS to use DNS.
* Improve fault tolerance and drive performance by creating RAID sets.
* Explore backup options--create copies of data on a remote server or another hard drive within the FreeNAS server.
* Carry out advanced system configuration: encrypt discs, add swap space, S.M.A.R.T, and SSH access.
* Troubleshoot your FreeNAS server when faced with networking problems or RAID failures.
* Carry out basic FreeBSD administration tasks.

Overall I was really impressed with the amount of FreeNAS (and consiquently FreeBSD) they covered in only 200+ pages, but it was well laid out knowledge, and easy to understand.
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Great BOOK!
I installed FreeNas on my own and got it working the way I wanted it to work, however this book had a LOT of good information from planning on how to use/build your NAS to setup. Read more
Published 4 months ago by garzjoe
Good resource
Good basic information, can find same information on the internet, but not in one handy location. With the program changing so often it's hard to keep it up to date. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Danny Serrano
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Love the software and ease of use and the book really explains everything is plain English, easy to understand and not dumbed down. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Tomatohead
Good book, but outdated and lacking ZFS
This is a good book and a great introduction to FreeNAS. However, it's a bit dated and the book doesn't really cover ZFS at all. Read more
Published 16 months ago by K. Thomas
Superb Book
Learning FreeNAS is a superb book.
One that I have no problem with recommending to anyone.

I was initially tasked with creating a NAS system for a work project and... Read more
Published 21 months ago by yoyojazz
FreeNAS a great solution
The Learning FreeNAS book is exactly what I wanted. This easy to understand reference is one of the best I have read to date, After receiving this book I was able to set up a Raid... Read more
Published on February 28, 2010 by Scott Sutton
Very well written book!
Gary Sims's "Learning FreeNAS" book was extremely well written. It was very easy to read for a computer novice like myself and still intellectually stimulating for my husband (a... Read more
Published on January 1, 2009 by G. J. Choi
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