Home Server – setting up ZFS (revisited)

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Finally, after two years of renovations and two children, I am revisiting the idea of a small home server. I don’t expect it to do much:

Media server
File backup
Some docker containers
Grafana
Possibly pfSense or another firewall

Whenever I’m accessing a remote system (even when using SSH in my internal network) I prefer to start a TMUX session. That way, if I get disconnected (for instance) during the middle of a package upgrade, the process just continues and I can reconnect at a later time without issues (if tmux is not yet installed or you’re not using it yet, I highly recommend reading up on it and taking a bit of time to get used to the basic concepts. I used this quick-start a couple of years ago).

ZFS on Dieter Vansteenwegen / Boxfish

Home Server – setting up ZFS (revisited)

Introduction