My last evaluation on other BSD has decided me to use ZFS for my [NAS](https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20160719). My OpenBSD NAS server is working since +8 years very well, but I'm at 85% of his capacity. Despite it offers a [pseudo-snaptshot system via rsync](/post/post_20160724), this little machine becomes too small to manage and provide files of several GB we have today. So, why not replace the software when we have to replace the hardware ;). In this post, I will not perform the standard install of FreeBSD. I will explain why I do that.

I'm looking for a simple way to connect my Android devices to my home via VPN. The goal is to have my GSM apps acting as if I'm home. Specially interesting for services I want to use or check, but I don't want to provide them directly on internet. For example my zigbee devices

I have more and more big files to transfer between my end user devices (laptop, mobiles, ...). The goal of this blog is to compare cpdup and rsync to synch files between my OpenBSD laptop and my NAS. Today, files I'm managing are bigger and bigger. For example, with modern camera I often have +500 photos to transfer which represent +6GB of data. Moreover, I'm an heavy user of hardlinks, so I want to make sure all my hardlinks are correctly reproduced on the NAS.

In a post of 2016 I explained how to build a Read-Only OpenBSD machine. Because in the recent OpenBSD systems we have new components, this post will update the situation. I remind that a read-only machine is a machine where most filesystems are read-only. As consequence you can cut power of the machine without damaging the filesystems. Personally, I'm using such system for my firewalls and my hifi OpenBSD system.

On an old machine running and old BSD OS, I must trigger an email is some keywords are coming in a log file. since this is a very old machine, installation of packages is no more possible. This blog post will show a simple way I've did it with only shell script

I'm using a brand new laptop (T14s) with a wifi driver not supported by several BSD systems. So, the workaround is to install a VM host and run your preferred OS inside a VM This blog post will show you how this impact performances