NAS

Big Idea The goal of this post will be to capture the steps required for the backup and restore process of my TrueNAS server. Currenty, my TrueNAS server consists of two 4TB drives in a vdev with a RAID1 (Mirror) config. My goal is to back this up to Backblaze’s S3-compatible B2 storage and test recovery before migrating data out of my old 1TB SSD. Once I have these backups in places the 3-2-1 rule will be satisfied:...

Big Idea Zettabit File System (ZFS) is a file system that is very popular in the Homelab community for it’s powerful capabilities as a file system and volume manager. It is designed to ensure data integrity and scalbility. While I am not an expert in ZFS, I hope to create guide here that outlines some of the fundamantal concepts of ZFS that I can return to over time. ZFS has a few key features that I will outline here:...