You need to put that file into /usr/ports/distfiles in the Jail and rename it (I did this just via a SAMBA share on my windows box). Clicking that link will actually redirect you to version 5.1.3, which is both smart and stupid for reasons we’ll get to.Ĭ. Now we need to download the source code for SpiderOak, this requires a little bit of manual trickery to get working:ī. Open up the link below in any browser and have a read, someone else has kindly done the work of porting SpiderOak to FreeBSD (which FreeNAS is based on), Ħ. From the FreeNAS Shell run the command “kldload linux”, this allows Linux emulation to be installed into the jail.Ĥ. Add some storage to your Jail so it can read the files you want to send to SpiderOak, I’d recommend Read Only:ģ. Create a Jail from the GUI, of type “portjail”.Ģ. I used this guide here to help me understand FreeBSD ports, ġ. Shell on the FreeNAS box, note the command line says launched from the Jail, note it says we are going to install the FreeBSD Port of SpiderOak onto our FreeNAS Jail. I’m running FreeNAS 9.2, first up you need to be familiar with the concept a “Jail” and the difference between running a Shell command on the FreeNAS box itself compared to running a Shell command on the Jail itself. It ended up not being that hard, so I thought I’d post a short “How To” here for other people to follow. My first challenge was getting it to run on FreeNAS. I am coming at this from a fairly new to FreeBSD - Windows user. I'm not affiliated with SpiderOak in anyway, the attached PDF has images, this is a straight copy/paste from the Word file I originally wrote for this post. ![]() They recently had some sales on storage so I bit the bullet and dived into paid storage, up until now I’d been on the free plan with just a few GB. ![]() I’ve been a fan of SpiderOak for years it’s a great alternative to DropBox for me. SpiderOak on FreeNAS (alternative to Dropbox)
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