Actually, almost everything regarding my home NAS setup has been done – there is VPN access from various networks, different shares are available, and the security has been slightly tuned. Two main things remain: monitoring and backups. Having a ZFS mirror on two disks with regular ZFS snapshots is, of course, great, but it is… Read More »
The next step in the process of setting up a home NAS on FreeBSD is to add an NFS share. We set up Samba in the previous part – now we let’s add NFS shares to it. My idea is for the Samba share to be used for various media resources requiring access from phones… Read More »
Continuing the setup of my home NAS on FreeBSD. Actually, a NAS is a Network System, and it’s desirable to have access to it from other devices – Linux and Windows hosts, phones, and TVs. Here we have two main options – Samba and NFS. One could also mention sshfs – but this solution is… Read More »
Continuing the “for fun and profit” journey of setting up my home server with FreeBSD on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M720s SFF. And today, finally, we will do the main part – set up a ZFS pool on real disks, look at working with datasets, encryption, snapshots, and monitoring. All posts in this blog series: FreeBSD:… Read More »
I have an idea to set up a home NAS on FreeBSD. For this purpose, I bought a Lenovo ThinkCentre M720s SFF – it’s quiet, compact, and offers the possibility to install 2 SATA III SSDs plus a separate M.2 slot for an NVMe SSD. What is planned: on NVMe SSD: UFS and FreeBSD on… Read More »