October 21, 2013 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Accessing every jail from a VPN

I’ve been meeting a few challenges with running an instance of bacula-fd in each of my jails. Most of them are related to networking. Perhaps my deployment strategies are imposing too many restrictions. The challenges arise on the jail hosts which are not behind my firewall at home. Each of those servers is accessible through […]

ezjail-jail: making a full backup of a FreeBSD jail with Bacula

Leave a Comment / Backups, Bacula, ezjail, FreeBSD, Jails / By Dan Langille / October 21, 2013

I’ve been using Bacula since early 2004. I’ve been using FreeBSD since 1998. Jails are a relatively newcomer. I starting using it later in 2004. But it’s only recently that I’ve started using them intensively. Backups are always a touchy subject. With ezjail, the files you need to backup are greatly reduced. You’re not backing

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