May 2015

More Bacula Excludes with Jails and FreeBSD

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Following on from my post about excluding the base OS with a Bacula FileSet, I decided to exclude some more. The starting point Here are the baselines: What else will I exclude? I decided to exclude the following as well: Adding iocage support Along the way, I extended the Exclude to work on server using the iocage jail management tool. I also split the Exclude out into its own file. Here is the […]

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WordPress and Fail2ban

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I recently implemented Fail2ban on a FreeBSD jail host. It monitors log files within the jails, from the host. Offensive IP addresses which act up in one jail will be blocked at the host, thus blocking the rascal IP from all jails. This has been running for about two weeks. Today I added another tool, the WP fail2ban plugin. The plugin comes with a wordpress.local file, but to make it work with FreeBSD,

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Excluding the base-OS when backing up FreeBSD jails with Bacula

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I felt I was backing up way too much on my jail server. I was backing up files which would be installed as part of the OS. Let’s look at the esimate: *estimate level=full job=”slocum jail snapshots” Using Catalog “MyCatalog” Connecting to Client slocum-fd at slocum.int.unixathome.org:9102 2000 OK estimate files=2,824,716 bytes=239,568,332,325 * I decided to add these to the FileSet: Options { Exclude = yes WildDir = “/usr/jails/*/.zfs/snapshot/basejail” WildDir = “/usr/jails/*/.zfs/snapshot/bin” WildDir =

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