Long time, no blog

Jan 1, 2024 | IT, TrueNAS | 0 comments

Well, it really is a long time since the last blog, which was at the start of 2022! Life just seemed to get in the way as things started to get back to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic, but that’s really quite a poor excuse. I did start a new permanent job,...

TrueNAS 2022

Jan 1, 2022 | IT, TrueNAS | 0 comments

This has now become a regular annual update, but I really didn’t think after the crazy year of 2020 (blogged about here), that we’d be in a very similar situation at the end of 2021. I’ve spent the whole of 2021 working from home, working for the...

Restarting TrueNAS and Portainer

Mar 24, 2021 | Docker, IT, TrueNAS | 0 comments

Restarting TrueNAS and Portainer probably isn’t a great title for this blog, but it will pop-up as a reminder for me to simply restart the NFS service after I’ve done this and hopefully avoid a few wasted hours trying to work out the problem!

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Home Assistant SSD

Jan 10, 2021 | IT, Raspberry Pi, Software | 0 comments

One of the things I like about blogging to myself is that the process tends to motivate me to do other things. This is one good example! I blogged a little about moving my Home Assistant server from a FreeBSD jail to a Raspberry Pi 4 (Pi) in my New Year blog here. In that, I also mentioned upgrading the OS from the micro SD (mSD) card to a more robust Solid State Drive (SSD). This is about how I created my Home Assistant SSD.

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