I feel like this email has a number of trick questions. On Tue, Jul 8, 2025, at 1:53 PM, Piotr K. Isajew wrote: > I want to build a NAS for my home network of OpenBSD > machines. I have a 4x8TB HDD machine to use for this > purpose. Primary role of this machine would be a dump and > pg_dump destination, but also a backup storage for some essential > files that are not part of regular backups (i.e. photos / music > archive) accessible as NFS export.
Essential files should be part of a regular backup. > I'd like to avoid using FreeBSD, but ZFS has some tempting > features like data corruption detection and correction and I > don't want to put a file to archive just to discover that it's > unreadable five years later. Do you use OpenBSD for your home > NAS? If yes, do you just rely on softraid to protect against data > loss or do you supplement it with something? RAID is not a backup, RAID should be supplemented with backups. Those things all having been said, yes, I am happily using OpenBSD for my local NAS needs with softraid RAID 1, NFS, and Samba. Clients include a variety of OpenBSD, macOS, embedded Linux, and Linux VM systems. Brian
