What is an FTP server

The first thing we will do is to define what an FTP server is. It is a service used to transfer files. That is, to upload and download data between two remotely connected computers. Usually, it is between a client’s local computer and a provider’s server. For this to be possible, it is necessary to have an FTP client and an FTP server. It is actually the software that allows the transfer of files between two computers. Note that the connection is bidirectional. That is, we can receive and send data at the same time. In addition, we can upload all kinds of files. For example, you can upload images, video files, text documents, etc.

We can increase the security of the service by using username and password. This allows us to authenticate ourselves. In addition to verify a specific account to access a server and transfer files. However, it is also possible to access as a guest, which could be anonymous.

How to use Google Drive as an FTP server. Step by step.

We have briefly explained what the FTP protocol is and how the client and server work. Now we are going to explain how we can use Google Drive for it. With this in mind, we will use google-drive-ftp-adapter, which is the application needed to achieve this. In addition, we will have to download it to our computer and configure it. Finally, we will start using it with our user to start uploading and downloading files.

Download google-drive-ftp-adapter

Logically, the first thing you have to do is to download google-drive-ftp-adapter. This is a free, open-source software, and we can download it from GitHub. Kindly note that it is imperative to have Java installed for it to work flawlessly. In the GitHub page we will see all the information related to the project. Previously, we had to download the ZIP file and from there look for the files needed to run. However, the author has simplified the download and use of the tool. In fact, it has brought together, in a single file, the tool itself together with its dependencies. Therefore, you only have to scroll down and download the file that I indicate in the following image:

It is likely that the system will warn you about the alleged dangerousness of the download. Please be advised that you can download without any problems. It is actually a false positive. The tool is perfectly safe and harmless to system security. It simply fulfills its mission of using Google Drive as an FTP server. Undoubtedly, it widens even more the range of possibilities of this cloud storage service.

Execute the jar file

We have mentioned that the procedure has been modernized. Previously you had to download the ZIP file. Then you had to unzip it. Then go to the google-drive-ftp-adapter-master folder. And from there, run the homonymous jar file. It was certainly a bit more tedious. However, the methodology has been simplified to the extreme. In fact, you just have to double-click on the google-drive-ftp-adapter-jar-with-dependencies.jar file.

As mentioned above, it is likely that the execution of the file will throw an error. This error occurs because the system detects it as potentially dangerous. But we have already told you that it is perfectly safe. So if it says that it cannot be read or executed, don’t worry. Just run it again. Most likely it will run without problems.

Linking Google Drive account

We are going to work with Google Drive. Therefore, it is necessary to add our user credentials. Don’t worry, this is something that the program handles automatically. Once we double-click on the file, we will be redirected to the Google Drive website. Please log in. Furthermore, we have to give the necessary permissions for it to work properly.

It is necessary to grant the necessary permissions for the program to work correctly. In addition, Windows Defender is likely to display a warning message. You have to accept it, otherwise the program is likely to have problems. Similarly, access to the Google Drive account with username and password is essential. In this way, we can access the content we have already saved or upload new files we want to the platform.

From this point on, Google Drive is already configured as an FTP server. The best thing is that the tool automates the whole process. From now on, we only need an FTP client. In this case, we will use WinSCP, which works very well. However, the process is the same with any other client. Have a look at this list of FTP clients we prepared for you.

Configuring the FTP client.

The configuration is elementary, you only have to add some data to be able to connect to Google Drive. We have to put in host name Localhost. In the user section we put user and password also user. Regarding the port we will use, we put 1821. This is the port that google-drive-ftp-adapter configures by default. In the options that will appear above, we have to select FTP and without encryption.

All that remains is to press the connect button. Please wait a few seconds while the tool synchronizes. As a result, we will see all files present in our Google Drive. From now on, we will be able to upload and download data at our convenience. Ultimately, we have seen how to use Google Drive as an FTP server. Another use you may not have known about for this popular storage service. See you later!

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Features

Administrative features:

• Web-based graphical user interface with optional SSL encryption
• Localized into over 20 languages
• Web, console, and SSH access configurable
• Plug-ins
• Wide range of configurable alerts and alerting mechanisms, including log emails and reporting notification
• Downloadable configuration file and encryption keys
• S.M.A.R.T. disk diagnostics
• Local certificate management, including Certificate Authority role.
• 2 factor authentication, LDAP, Active Directory, RADIUS, IPSec, Kerberos and other authentication/user management systems supported in FreeBSD and therefore available for FreeNAS (Note: some but not all supported in GUI).

File system features:

• Highly resilient ZFS file system with Feature Flags (OpenZFS v5000) and theoretical storage limit of 16 Exabytes. ZFS file system features are fully configurable and include:
• Compression (including lz4 and gzip),
• Full-volume encryption (Disk encryption with GELI and AESNI hardware acceleration),
• Snapshots (which can be near-continual; snapshotting every 15-30 minutes is not uncommon),
• Data deduplication
• User quotas
• Physical disks are fully portable and can be moved without data loss to other FreeNAS servers, or to any other Operating System that supports a compatible version of OpenZFS.
• Data reliability features – mirroring / RAID (including ZFS RaidZ), multiple copies of selected data and metadata for reliability, and entire-system checksumming and background data repair as needed (“scrubbing”) (see also: ZFS generally, which was designed expressly with the aim of ensuring data preservation)
• Server reliability features –
• Replication, fallover and failover,
• Multi-version boot environment – the boot menu provides access to previous versions of FreeNAS which have been upgraded. In the event of a boot issue or system problem, FreeNAS can also load any of these at boot, as “known good” versions, without “rolling back” the server.
• Disk read and data import for UFS2, NTFS, FAT32 and EXT2/3
• User/Group permissions – Classic Unix/Linux permissions and/or ACL based (including ACLs for Microsoft file systems)

Built-in network services and features:

• Protocols as standard – Samba/SMB/CIFS (for Microsoft and other networks), AFP (Apple), NFS, iSCSI, FTP/TFTP
• LDAP and Active Directory client support with Windows ACLs
• Apple Time Machine and Microsoft File History/Previous Versions support
• rsync data sync and replication (server/client)
• Link aggregation and failover
• VLAN networking
• Dynamic DNS client
• Remote syslogd forwarding
• SNMP monitoring
• Wide range of networking hardware and environments supported by FreeBSD, including copper cable, fiberoptic cable, WiFi
• Supports jumbo frames, hardware offloading (exact features offloaded vary by adapter), high bandwidth servicing (10G+)

FreeNAS Uses:

• SMB and Enterprise file serving
• Virtualization server storage backing
• Media center audio/video serving and streaming to DLNA devices

Requirements:
8 GB of Disk Space is the absolute minimum. 16 GiB is recommended.
64-bit hardware is required forFreeNAS releases.
8 GB of RAM is required, with more recommended.

Step 1

Download FreeNAS from this link. Burn ISO image to DVD or make a Bootable usb.
https://www.freenas.org/download-freenas-release/

turn on your system, plugin bootable media (DVD or USB) and start installation process

Step 2

Navigate to Option 1 Boot FreeNAS Installer and press ENTER key to install FreeNAS

Step 3

Here Select Install/Upgrade option and Hit ENTER on Ok button

Step 4

Now Choose One or Multiple Drives where you want to install FreeNAS, Spacebar button is used to select drive and asterisk(*) will notify that the drive is selected, then hit ENTER on Ok button.

Step 5

At this time you will get a warning that everything will be removed from selected drives, just proceed to installation by clicking on Yes button.

Step 6

Setting up your root password

Step 7

Finally you will receive a message that installation succeeded. hit on ok

Step 8

Remove your bootable installation media (USB or DVD), navigate to option “Reboot System” and restart it

Step 9

After rebooting the system you will get similar screen given below, here you need to copy the URL so that you can access FreeNAS GUI from your webs browser.

In my case it is http://192.168.231.130

Step 10

Open the web browser and enter the URL to Access FreeNAS GUI, then type your login details user name will be “root” and the password is you set during installation.

Finally you will see FreeNAS Dashboard like below.

That’s it you have installed and configured FreeNAS successfully, soon we will create a guide that how to create a file sharing server on FreeNAS.

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Data is distributed across the drives in one of several ways, referred to as RAID levels, depending on the required level of and performance. The different schemes, or data distribution layouts, are named by the word “RAID” followed by a number, for example, RAID 0 or RAID 1. Each scheme, or RAID level, provides a different balance among the key goals: reliability, availability, performance, and capacity. RAID levels greater than RAID 0 provide protection against unrecoverable sector read errors, as well as against failures of whole physical drives.——[RAID.wikipedia]

The test environment

• CentOS 8.0 virtual machine
• Add two hard disks
• The installation for mdadm

raid-1 operating steps

• Use LSBLK to view the current hard disk partition

lsblk

You can see that sdb and sdc are not in use

• partition for sdb and sdc

Because RAID requires the same size of each hard disk, sdb and sdc are partitioned respectively, and each hard disk is partitioned into a 16G partition, and Hex code is modified as fd

fdisk /dev/sdc

Other hard disk partition process omitted, partition after as follows:

• installation mdadm

yum install madadm

• Create a RAID-1

sdb1, sdc1 form a group of raid-1, RAID device named /dev/md0

mdadm -C /dev/md0 -a yes -l 1 -n 2 /dev/sd{c1,b1}

Check the progress:

cat /proc.mdstat 

View RAID information:

mdadm -D /dev/md0

Here we create a RAID1 disk array from mdadm

• Create the md0 profile

echo DEVICE /dev/sd{b,c}1 >> /etc/mdadm.conf
mdadm -Evs >> /etc/mdadm.con 

• Format & create directory and mount

mkfs.xfs /dev/md0
mkdir    /raid1
mount    /dev/md0 /raid1
df       -h

At this time we can go to /raid1 directory to store our files

• Write the partition table and mount automatically at startup

echo "/dev/md0 /raid1 xfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab 

Conclusion

Save A file to display of RAID 1, RAID will cut into A1, A2, A3, branch of two pieces of written to disk, can make the disk write speed slightly down, because this way is written to disk, one of the hard disk is broken, another have the same backup hard disk, so the RAID 1 is redundant support, but the cost is quite high, also only 1/2 of the disk space can be used

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First of all, it is convenient to say that NAS is a technology for connecting a server with TCP protocol to store files and share them on a network. A major benefit of NAS is its ability to provide multiple clients on the network with access to the same files. For example, it is used by many companies worldwide that need to have their files available anywhere.

OpenMediaVault is a network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more. It’s simple, out-of-the-box and extensible via plugins.

Let’s install it.

Requirements

The hardware requirements to install OpenMediaVault are very accessible as it is a Debian 9 based system. Generally, you need 1gb ram, at least 20gb of hard disk and a 64bits processor.

I will use VirtualBox for this tutorial, but the process is the same if you have real hardware.

Downloading OpenMediaVault

First, go to your download section and download the image.

If you use real hardware, you need to burn the image to a flash drive and make it bootable. For this I recommend etcher.

Install OpenMediaVault

Once you get the system started, you’ll see something like this.

Select the Install option. If you have installed Debian 9 you will find the process very similar.

First you’ll be asked what country you’re in.

Then, you will have to configure the Keymap of the keyboard. Choose yours.

At the end of the network configuration, you have enter the hostname of the computer.

Now it is the turn to place the domain name. If you don’t have one, then, leave it empty.

The next step is to define the root password.

Next, the installation wizard will configure the clock from the internet. However, you have also enter your time zone.

After, the system will start the OpenMediaVault installation.

Equally important that the system is the network mirror you have use of Debian. Remember that OpenMediaVault is based on Debian 9. Choose the mirror closest to you.

Then it will scan the base mirror.

In addition, at the time of installation, you must choose where to install the GRUB boot loader. In this case, /dev/sda.

If everything went well, you should see this message at the end.

Finally, reboot the system. When you start the system, you will see the following screen, informing the IP address to access the web panel and the credentials to access it.

Accessing to OpenMediaVault web interface

The installation has been successfully completed. Now start from another computer your favorite web browser, place the IP address of the NAS to access the OpenMediaVault web interface.

Enter the password that was previously given to you. And you will see the first screen of the system.

That’s it.

In conclusion, it is easily possible to say that the installation is simple and very suitable for fair hardware equipment.

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