Olafsen – Tech and more
Articles and notes on various stuff
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OmniOS: Automatic Snapshots with Znapzend
Automatic generation and deletion of snapshots This article is part of a series focused on the building and setup of a home-NAS based on ZFS and OmniOS. The index is located here: An OmniOS ZFS Fileserver. I like to have snapshots to be able to go back in time in case I make a mistake or…
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OmniOS: Netatalk with PAM Authentication
Use of the same passwords for AFP and local users This article is part of a series focused on the building and setup of a home-NAS based on ZFS and OmniOS. The index is located here: An OmniOS ZFS Fileserver. Using netatalk is possible to share folders from a server to OS X clients. The advantage over CIFS…
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OmniOS: Installation of HTTPi
Configuring a local lightweight webserver for various purposes This article is part of a series focused on the building and setup of a home-NAS based on ZFS and OmniOS. The index is located here: An OmniOS ZFS Fileserver. I needed a local webserver to provide various info about the server and to be able to issue…
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OmniOS: Two-Factor Authentication
Installation of Google Authenticator for more secure logins This article is part of a series focused on the building and setup of a home-NAS based on ZFS and OmniOS. The index is located here: An OmniOS ZFS Fileserver. This server has to be accessed via SSH also from the Internet, therefore I needed a safe and…
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OmniOS: Postfix And Stunnel
Setting the system to send email to the outside world This article is part of a series focused on the building and setup of a home-NAS based on ZFS and OmniOS. The index is located here: An OmniOS ZFS Fileserver. I was setting up the OmniOS server to keep track of several parameters, for example the…
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OmniOS: Installation and Basic Setup
From the CD/DVD to the working system, no extras This article is part of a series focused on the building and setup of a home-NAS based on ZFS and OmniOS. The index is located here: An OmniOS ZFS Fileserver. First of all, this article must be considered always “in progress” because I will update it in…
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OmniOS: Install TransmissionBT
Compilation and install: steps required and solving issues This article is part of a series focused on the building and setup of a home-NAS based on ZFS and OmniOS. The index is located here. Having a server or a NAS always-on and not offloading the different computers from the longest tasks makes no sense, so I…
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OmniOS: The Hardware
Choice of the components and BOM This article is part of a series focused on the building and setup of a home-NAS based on ZFS and OmniOS. The index is located here. Requirements and Options The server I was going to build was meant to last five years and to be used both as simple…
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Why a NAS and Which One
Why storing data on a dedicated device and available alternatives This article is part of a series focused on the building and setup of a home-NAS based on ZFS and OmniOS. The index is located here. Introduction About ZFS Last year in September ZEVO was released, making finally a reasonably recent (v28) version of ZFS available under Mac OS…
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Homemade Brass Keychain
Description of the making of a brass keychain with the etching method. On the keychain there is the name of the owner and a QR code During the last months I had different keychains, but none was good enough to withstand even a pretty light use, so I decided to replace my current one with…