#homenas — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #homenas, aggregated by home.social.
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A blizzard was a good time to focus on my #icloudescape.
Picked up a pair of UniFi NAS units — one home, one remote, syncing nightly over site-to-site VPN.
Traded an M2 iPad Air I never touched for a M4 Mac Mini running Parachute, which incrementally pulls down my iCloud content so I actually have a real backup and not just a sync. iCloud is a sync service, not a backup — and getting into this mindset was the biggest ‘unlock’ in the project.
My UnRAID server handles daily working storage, media, Time Machine, and acts as a quick restore source.
Backblaze with a private encryption key sits at the end of the chain as an offsite layer I don’t have to manage.
I’m planning to explore Immich to manage and view the backup photo library when I have more time to dig into Postgres and associated dependencies but wanted to get the overall data pipeline configured first.
I also now feel more confident in safely storing my parent’s long term backup as they move away from having a home PC.
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A blizzard was a good time to focus on my #icloudescape.
Picked up a pair of UniFi NAS units — one home, one remote, syncing nightly over site-to-site VPN.
Traded an M2 iPad Air I never touched for a M4 Mac Mini running @Parachute, which incrementally pulls down my iCloud content so I actually have a real backup and not just a sync. iCloud is a sync service, not a backup — and getting into this mindset was the biggest ‘unlock’ in the project.
My UnRAID server handles daily working storage, media, Time Machine, and acts as a quick restore source.
Backblaze with a private encryption key sits at the end of the chain as an offsite layer I don’t have to manage.
I’m planning to explore Immich to manage and view the backup photo library when I have more time to dig into Postgres and associated dependencies but wanted to get the overall data pipeline configured first.
I also now feel more confident in safely storing my parent’s long term backup as they move away from having a home PC.
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Anyone here locally host their files / photos / videos on a personal NAS rather than use iCloud or Google Photos? Or use some hybrid version?
I’ve been exploring options and ordered the gear to build out an on-site and off-site backup.
Nerd Math tells me this could eventually pay for itself if I downgrade my iCloud subscription and it’s good data storage practice to have the redundancy — how I justify the initial investment. 🤓
But would love to discuss real world insights and pitfalls to avoid.
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Anyone here locally host their files / photos / videos on a personal NAS rather than use iCloud or Google Photos? Or use some hybrid version?
I’ve been exploring options and ordered the gear to build out an on-site and off-site backup.
Nerd Math tells me this could eventually pay for itself if I downgrade my iCloud subscription and it’s good data storage practice to have the redundancy — how I justify the initial investment. 🤓
But would love to discuss real world insights and pitfalls to avoid.
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🎉 Breaking News: Some brave soul is still using #FreeBSD in 2025! 🎉 Amidst a thrilling saga of setting up a home NAS, our hero discovers the mystical art of #WireGuard #VPN and Linux peers. Meanwhile, everyone else has moved to the cloud and is wondering what decade this article escaped from. 🤔📜
https://rtfm.co.ua/en/freebsd-home-nas-part-3-wireguard-vpn-linux-peer-and-routing/ #HomeNAS #CloudMigration #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Breaking News: Some brave soul is still using #FreeBSD in 2025! 🎉 Amidst a thrilling saga of setting up a home NAS, our hero discovers the mystical art of #WireGuard #VPN and Linux peers. Meanwhile, everyone else has moved to the cloud and is wondering what decade this article escaped from. 🤔📜
https://rtfm.co.ua/en/freebsd-home-nas-part-3-wireguard-vpn-linux-peer-and-routing/ #HomeNAS #CloudMigration #HackerNews #ngated -
FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)
https://rtfm.co.ua/en/freebsd-home-nas-part-1-configuring-zfs-mirror-raid1/
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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)
https://rtfm.co.ua/en/freebsd-home-nas-part-1-configuring-zfs-mirror-raid1/
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Personal Cloud Introduzione
