A series of articles about homelab hardware - reviews of ready-made mini servers like the ZimaBoard 2 and Openclaw, plus building your own NAS on Fedora Server from scratch.
Continuing the series of articles about a home NAS on Fedora Server 44. This time we set up automatic creation and cleanup of ZFS snapshots using Sanoid, go over the snapshot retention policy and systemd timers, and get acquainted with Syncoid for future data replication to a backup server.
We build a modern home NAS on Fedora Server 44 with the OpenZFS filesystem, the Cockpit web interface, and the Samba file server. A complete step-by-step guide to installation, ZFS configuration, SELinux, and publishing an SMB share.
