Dell R730 – moving disks from front drive bay to PCI slots in r730-03

I’ve been seeing these types of errors for about 4 weeks now. I ordered a replacement drive. When it arrived, I realized I had no free drive bays. When a drive is still functional, I prefer to leave it in the host to retain zpool integrity. Instead, I will add the new drive in, run

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Eaton 5PX UPS – clear the ‘Replace Battery’ warning

Three weeks ago, I wrote about Replacing batteries Eaton 5PX – 5PX2200RT & 5PXEBM48RT. Back then, I did not properly replace the front panel before connecting the battery… Fixing this requires disconnecting the battery from the UPS. I’m not sure if I can do that live, but I’m not going to try. During this procedure,

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Replacing batteries Eaton 5PX – 5PX2200RT & 5PXEBM48RT

NOTE: the images in this blog post were broken. As of 2024-12-01 1600 UTC, they are fixed. Sorry about that. Two useful links for future me: https://caniuse.com/?search=HEIC https://urlscan.io/result/31b29ced-bf41-415c-994e-df6ec532cb29/ The time arrived this morning. The batteries were charged up. I had most of the day to myself. It was time to replace the batteries. Elapsed time

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Optimizing UPS power use when the power goes out

This post is mostly for myself. I’m just putting my Sunday morning thoughts down for later review and consideration. When Selecting replacements batteries for my Eaton 5PX UPS (5PX2200RT & 5PXEBM48RT), I began to think about: when the power goes off, why can’t I keep using my laptop? Usually, I still have an Internet connection:

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Selecting replacements batteries for my Eaton 5PX UPS (5PX2200RT & 5PXEBM48RT)

Both nut and Nagios are telling me: replace my batteries. Fair enough. The UPS (5PX2200RT) and the external battery pack (5PXEBM48RT) were installed and configured with nut four years and two months ago. It’s time. Usually, I buy compatible third party batteries. Looking at video and images, I’m seeing these units use batteries in a

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Loading up an old copy of a PostgreSQL database, zfs snapshots, and sanoid snapshot management

Sometimes you want to go back to a known good state. And you want to do it quickly, without waiting around. In my case, that’s going to be a zfs snapshot. Today I am preparing to test some code changes so that FreshPorts properly creates a new category. See these recent blog posts for details:

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dma: could not pick up queue file

see https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions/2024-October/005877.html for the full archive. A while back, I changed my FreeBSD jails from using postfix to using dma. I like postfix, but I don’t want to maintain the app in so many locations. dma is less work. I wrote a short blog post about configuring dma and also blogged about replacing postfix with

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