Subj : New project
To   : All
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Wed Oct 15 2025 22:11:14

Hi everyone,

I have a new computer project.  Since ArcaOS doesn't support SFTP and its port of s3cmd is ancient and unlikely to be updated, I'll be taking a spare RPi 3B I have and, using a 5TB USB HDD drive, I'm going to set up a small NAS using FreBSD 14.3.

So I will programatically be able to copy over the BBS' nightly backup files over to the NAS and have the NAS backup that file to AWS S3 and my webhost.  A friend is going to give me some space on their VPS so I can backup directly via FTP with a GPG-encrypted file.

I talked to Grok last night and it gave me an absolute ton of help with creating a small NAS under FreeBSD (I could use TrueNAS but it is overkill for what I need).  If anyone is interested, I'll post the converaation in here.  Grok even gave me a bunch of system tunables for USB 2.0 and other things to keep the system effecient.

It's amazing that I can build a tiny NAS mainly for the BBS' use.

-- Sean

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