Building a FreeBSD NAS Part 2: Hardware assembly
In Part 1 of this series I already explained my goals building a new NAS. In this post I show how I assembled the hardware in order to ensure reliance and redundancy.
Building a FreeBSD NAS Part 3: System setup
FreeBSD is the ideal system to use when building a server. It’s reliable and rock-solid and it’s file system ZFS not only offers anything you would expect from a file system but is also easy to set up and to maintain. This is why I chose it to power my NAS. In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series I already described my intentions and the hardware assembly. Now it’s time to bring it to life.
Building a FreeBSD NAS Part 4: Service deployment
In Part 3 of this series I described how to install FreeBSD and set it up properly. Now that the base system setup is complete, we can start providing services…
FreeBSD: iTunes media server using forked-daapd
forked-daapd allows you to set up an iTunes Media server that hosts all music, podcasts and audiobooks and shows
up in iTunes like a shared library. While other daapd implementations don’t work anymore with the current iTunes
versions, forked-daapd does.
FreeBSD: Time Machine backup server with netatalk
While building my new NAS, I came across the question how to provide a Time Machine backup solution for my OS X clients.
As I run OS X on all my machines I want to back up all data to my NAS. netatalk allows to create file shares for OS X
to provide a simple solution for system backups.
Building a FreeBSD NAS Part 1: Concept & Hardware selection
After a long while I finally decided to build a new NAS / home server for my various needs. Though there are many solutions available, I chose to build one on my own as I want as much flexibility as possible. So I set out to buy all components needed for the system with upgradability and budget in mind.
OS X: Automated provisioning using Homebrew and Cask
I’m changing my hardware quite frequently as I often end up unsatisfied with my current setup. Setting up a computer from scratch is a pain in the a** but restoring a backup implies carrying around configuration files, useless software and other stuff for years. So I’ve decided to create a script that would set up a new computer from scratch and configure it the way I want it to be.
FreeBSD: Send mails over an external SMTP server
FreeBSD is shipped with sendmail as the default MTA, which is configured to local delivery on a vanilla installation. Therefore many people don’t even recognize one of FreeBSDs great features for system administrators: FreeBSD sends system status emails through periodic(8)…
OS X: Run any command in a sandbox
Beside the pre-configured profiles, OS X’s sandbox wrapper command sandbox-exec provides a flexible configuration
syntax that allows one to create a customized sandbox that either blacklists or whitelists specific abilities of the
application executed within.