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 »
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 »
In the previous post of the Home NAS on FreeBSD setup series, we got acquainted with restic – a utility for working with backups that supports encryption, snapshots, and change history; see FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 8 – backup of NFS and Samba data with restic. However, in addition to archival data in S3, I… Read More »