Tag Archives: NAS

FreeBSD: Home NAS, Part 15: Automating Backups – scripts, rsync, rclone
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15 March 2026

This is essentially the last major task – setting up automated backup creation. In the post FreeBSD: Home NAS, Part 13: Planning Data Storage and Backups I described the general idea in more detail – what gets backed up, where, what gets stored and how – and today is the purely technical part about the actual… Read More: FreeBSD: Home NAS, Part 15: Automating Backups – scripts, rsync,… »

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FreeBSD: Home NAS, Part 13: Planning Data Storage and Backups
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14 March 2026

When I was just starting to build my NAS and thinking about backups, everything seemed pretty simple: there’s a work laptop with data, there’s a FreeBSD server for the NAS – just take and copy the data. So the initial idea was to have backup script(s) on Linux hosts that would push data to the… Read More: FreeBSD: Home NAS, Part 13: Planning Data Storage and Backups0… »

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Backblaze: A First Look at B2 Cloud Storage
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14 March 2026

This post is technically part of the home NAS setup series on FreeBSD (see the beginning here – FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – ZFS mirror setup), but I’ll publish it separately. I already have backup automation configured (there will be posts about that too), and right now data from the NAS is pushed to… Read More: Backblaze: A First Look at B2 Cloud Storage0 (0) »

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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 12: synchronizing data with Syncthing
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14 March 2026

I’m gradually getting closer to wrapping up the home NAS setup on FreeBSD. There’s already a ZFS pool, datasets, and monitoring – time to start setting up backup automation. But what seemed pretty simple at first – “just copy the needed directories from the work laptop” – turned out to be an increasingly interesting problem… Read More: FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 12: synchronizing data with Syncthing0 (0) »

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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 14 – logs with VictoriaLogs and alerts with VMAlert
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28 February 2026

A continuation of the home NAS setup series. Monitoring in general has already been configured in previous parts, but log management still needs to be set up – because doing it in the console with tail -f /var/log/messages is certainly possible – but there are more convenient tools available. We’ll use VictoriaLogs – especially since… Read More: FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 14 – logs with VictoriaLogs and… »

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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 10 – monitoring with VictoriaMetrics and Grafana
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7 February 2026

Finally got around to monitoring. I was interested in running a standard stack with VictoriaMetrics + Grafana + Alertmanager not in the usual Kubernetes with a Helm chart, but simply on the host. However, the approach is the same as monitoring services in AWS/Kubernetes – on FreeBSD, we will have VictoriaMetrics for metrics, Grafana for… Read More: FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 10 – monitoring with VictoriaMetrics and… »

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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 8 – NFS and Samba data backups using restic
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5 January 2026

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: FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 8 – NFS and Samba data… »

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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 7 – NFSv4 and use with Linux clients
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5 January 2026

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: FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 7 – NFSv4 and use with… »

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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 6 – Samba server and client connections
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28 December 2025

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: FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 6 – Samba server and client… »

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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 5 – ZFS pool, datasets, snapshots, and ZFS monitoring
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27 December 2025

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: FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 5 – ZFS pool, datasets, snapshots,… »

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