Anyone used FreeNAS?

[Ric <infobubble@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,
I want to play with mirroring  fair chunk of data across town between
mine and a mate's house.
We're both on ADSL so our upstream speed's not brilliant, but
nevermind.
I was planning on setting up a FreeNAS box at one end, possibly
eventually at both, and filling it from the pile of hard disks I have
lying around.

Anyone got any hands-on experience of doing this?
In terms of doing the sync, can you Rsync over FTP or am I going to
have to setup a VPN?
I'm presuming in terms of remote admin SSH is the way to go?

Presuming I do an initial local sync and then just manage the deltas
sync over the internet I'd hope performance would be slow but
acceptable...

Ric