It’s good to do automated backups. When you do that, add monitoring to make sure the backups are occurring successfully. In my case, I backup using Bacula. Each job creates a new .bsr file. I copy these files to another location each day. Then I monitor the dates on those files and they should all …
Yesterday, I noticed this message in one of the “daily security run output” emails which FreeBSD host can send out. I’ve used net-mgmt/nrpe3 for several years. It checks remote hosts and runs any number of predetermined commands and returns the results. It’s stable, highly configurable, and just keeps running. I had a look at the …
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The last time I did this inventory was 2018. It is time for a refresh. I have added comments to the output of the jls command. This is a brief description of what runs in each jail. Retired hosts slocum and r720-01 have been powered off after being merged into r730-01. r730-01 r730-01 is a …
This article is a copy/paste/modify of mysqldump: Error: ‘Access denied; you need (at least one of) the PROCESS privilege(s) for this operation’ when trying to dump tablespaces. See also Creating read-only PostgreSQL database users for pg_dump and pg_dumpall. I’m linking this because I use both articles on a regular basis. The error After a recent …
I have jails with both IP4 and IPv6 addresses. Lately, I’ve been noticing this in /var/log/messages: And this in console messages: Looking in the jail, it had IPv6 addresses. What gives? In this post: FreeBDS 13.1 The jail example I had a jail, similar to this: After the jail started, I could see both IP …
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I have the Let’s Encrypt Add-on configured for my Home Assistant logon. I got it to renew. I see the cert is stored at /data/letsencrypt/live/hass.example.org/fullchain.pem. But I don’t see directory in my terminal session for Home Assistant. It’s as if I should just give up and use an Nginx proxy instead. At least I know …
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I like Postfix. I’ve been a fan of it for over 20 years. I deployed it on every host for outgoing email. Lately, I’ve taken to using dma (DragonFly Mail Agent) as my preferred mail handler on jails and hosts which don’t need to deal with incoming mail, only outgoing mail. After first getting serious …
This is is mostly written after-the-fact without good notes. Much of what I’m writing is pulled from a tweet and from things I did as I later copied this VM from one host to another. In this post: FreeBSD 13.1 vm-bhyve-1.5. edk2-bhyve-g202202_1 qemu-7.2.0 Much of what I’m doing is based up David Reid’s blog post: …
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Now that I’ve filled up data01, I bought some more SSDs and created another zpool. Today, on this snow-is-anticipated Saturday winter morning, I’m going to move some ZFS filesystems/datasets around. Side note: I like the term dataset better than filesystem. man zfs talks about datasets, which can be a file system, a volume, a snapshot, …
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I spent my lunch, and most of my mortgage payment, on 4 x 4TB Blue 4TB SSD 3D NAND (WDS400T2B0A). In this post: FreeBSd 13.1 smartctl output partition creation zpool creation In they go This is them, being inserted into the system: I am concerned by that 150.000MB/s transfers smartctl Let’s look at the smartctl …