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Recently OneDrive was removed as a CloudSync provider for TrueNAS Scale. As I built my first NAS and use OneDrive for cloud storage, I was looking for alternate means to back up my NAS to OneDrive. I found individual pieces of possible solutions on the TrueNAS forums, but nothing approaching an end-to-end solution, so decided to do a write-up of what…

What is ZFS and It’s History ZFS is a local filesystem (i.e.: ext4, NTFS, exfat) and logical volume manager (i.e.: LVM on Linux) created by Sun Microsystems. ZFS was published under an open source license until Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and closed source the license. Because the source code was already in the open and…

(published on https://4sysops.com/archives/docker-backup-container-commands-commit-save-and-export-container-images/) With Docker, the most predominant container runtime in the enterprise, how can you perform Docker backup and protect critical containers? Application and data Backing up your containers usually involves backing up the container itself (the application) and the container data. If you have persistent data, it is best to have it mounted…

You may have seen digital certificate files with a variety of filename extensions, such as .crt, .cer, .pem, or .der. These extensions generally map to two major encoding schemes for X.509 certificates and keys: PEM (Base64 ASCII), and DER (binary). However, there is some overlap and other extensions are used, so you can’t always tell what kind of file you…

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer security (TLS ) are protocols that provide secure communications over a computer network or link. They are commonly used in web browsing and email. In this tutorial we will look: What is TLS TLS is based on SSL and was developed as a replacement in response to known vulnerabilities in SSLv3. SSL is the…