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How to filter files for a backup ?

Posted on 2019-05-05 16:12:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Nas

With the posix [tar](http://man.openbsd.org/tar) command, we cannot exclude files' pattern like [gnu-tar](https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html) does. This article will propose some alternatives.

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News concerning Yabitrot

Posted on 2019-02-19 20:36:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Nas yabitrot

In this blog some news concerning the last changes implemented in yabitrot version 0.4

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Fosdem 2019: a full featured NAS on top of OpenBSD

Posted on 2019-02-03 14:46:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Nas

It was a good experience to present my NAS server to the fosdem. In this post I share some extra elements

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Yet another bit rotation scanner for storage

Posted on 2018-10-19 22:24:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Nas yabitrot

In order to be sure that the backups of my NAS were coherent and consistent, I was looking for a bit rotation scanner. Unfortunately, I did not find what I need, so I've written mine. This blog explain the why, the how, ...

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NFS settings for a Linux client connected to an OpenBSD NFS server.

Posted on 2016-10-20 21:48:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Nas

You are an happy owner of a NAS running on OpenBSD proposing NFS shared drives. And your life is perfect with [OpenBSD client](/post/post_20160822) (maybe you have read one of my article on that subject). But this idilyc echosystem is in danger when a friend of you comes and connects is brand new Linux laptop on your NFS server.

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Best practices for NFS on OpenBSD

Posted on 2016-08-22 19:41:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Nas

Let me share my expertise for the best parameters of NFS client on a laptop running OpenBSD.

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My simple Time Machine on top of NFS

Posted on 2016-07-24 13:58:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Nas

In this post I'll explain what I did in order to have the concept of [Time machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_(OS_X)) on my NFS server. As you can imagine this solution relies mainly on the HardLink concept and use `rsync` to perform the tasks. All of this is embedded in a small shell script. It works well on my OpenBSD machine, but should also works on any Unix-like machines.

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OpenBSD as an encrypted NAS

Posted on 2016-07-19 15:53:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Nas

I'll explain how I've configured OpenBSD in order to have an encrypted Network Area Storage

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Build a Read only system with OpenBSD

Posted on 2016-07-12 12:06:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Firewall Nas

When you have machines that must run 24x7, you must take into account the problem of powercut. To my eyes there is 2 possible solutions: - use an UPS - have a readonly operating system In this post, I'll describe how you can easily transform your OpenBSD machine into a Read-only system.

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