October 4, 2012

Destroying some unneeded ZFS snapshots

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD, Open Source, ZFS / By Dan Langille / October 4, 2012

Last night, I found that I had a number of unused ZFS snapshots. I decided to destroy some of them. The first destroy locked up the system. Nagios reported everything was dead. I remotely power cycled the system. After it came back, I noticed that a scrub was in progress. This had not been initiated […]

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Bacula volumes – running low on disk space

1 Comment / Bacula, Open Source, PostgreSQL / By Dan Langille / October 4, 2012

I have been using Bacula since early 2004. That’s nearly 9 years of great backups. Back in early 2010, I set up a multi-terabyte system in my basement with commodity hardware. Today, after about 18 months of backups, it’s starting to fill up. Now is the time to start restricting the creation of new Volumes

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