Re: Building a FreeBSD NAS

Hello everyone, just out of curiosity, why Truenas has not been considered
a possible solution? After all, it does everything that has been discussed
so far and seem to fit the bill quite well!

Just curious!

Kind regards
SS

On Sat, 5 Feb 2022, 12:58 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk, <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com>
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> On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 3:39 PM Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org>
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>> Main aim is to access it from macOS as NAS backup server.
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>> MacOS should be able to recognize it as a backup medium.
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> You may do this as follows explained on pages from search in Google :
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> from macos to freebsd nfs server
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>> Am 05.02.2022 um 11:02 schrieb infoomatic <infoomatic@gmx.at>:
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>> On 05.02.22 10:13, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
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>> I’m thinking of setting up a NAS server on my FreeBSD (12.1) system. What would be the product from ports or server I had to use?
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>> depends on how you gonna use it. First, I suggest updating to 12.3 since
>> 12.1 is end of life, or upgrade to 13.0.
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>> I use plain sshfs, so I do not need anything from ports ;-) I just use
>> sshd from the base system and fusefs-sshfs on my clients.
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>> If you intend to use nfs, it is also in base - with 13.0 you can also use
>> TLS to encrypt data in transmission.
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>> iscsi is also in base. However, if you want to share files with Windows
>> clients, you can use samba413 from ports/pkg.
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>> If you want to share files via webdav, use apache24 from ports/pkg, for
>> ftp I can recommend vsftpd from ports/pkg (or proftpd).
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>> For afp/filesharing with macos you can use netatalk3 from ports/pkg.
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>> Regards,
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>> Robert
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