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Month: November, 2009

DIY NAS with Debian Lenny

After playing with FreeNAS I ended up using Debian for my server. FreeNAS is a great distribution if you want an out of the box experience, but I found it hard to customise, mostly because I’m not very familiar with BSDs. Also, they are switching to Debian for the next version. So, Debian it is. [...]

Growing mirrored and encrypted partitions in FreeNAS

UPDATE 2009-11-19: this post explains how to do the same in Debian. I’m building a small NAS for the household. It will run FreeNAS and will be used as a file, rsync, BitTorrent and printer server. I want it to be reliable and secure so it will have two HDDs in RAID 1 (AKA mirroring) [...]