Last night, when I got my FreeBSD & ZFS based Time Capsule running, I had to connect my laptop to the same network as the server in question. This is not ideal. My usual work flow: connect to the WIFI, then connect to the VPN, then I get access to those services. These are different […]
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First, all credit goes to Mark Felder’s blog post upon which this is based. You can buy an Apple Time Capsule (I did) to back up your Mac. Now that I have two MacBook’s, I have run out of space, so now I want to backup to ZFS. By backing up to my ZFS filesystem:
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NOTE: this post has been replaced by a newer version. The older post is still available This is x8dtu (named after the Supermicro motherboard). This will be the new FreshPorts server. In short: FreeBSD 11 booting off a mirrored pair of zfsroot SSDs 4.5TB of mirrored ZFS 196612 MB of RAM (yeah, that’s 196GB of