November 2019

r720

This host has been retired. The services were distributed amongst r730-01 and r730-03. This host was often referred to as r720 or r720-01 (after r720-02 appeared on the scene) This replaces a previous post. I’ve been given a Dell PowerEdge 720. It contains: 6 x 400GB SAS SSDs – data01 zpool 2 x 100GB SAS SSDs – unused – I think this is da0 and da1 2 x 80GB SATA SSDs – zroot […]

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Migrating a Dell TL4000 to a new FreeBSD server and attaching it to a jail

I recently migrated a bunch of jails from one server to another. Today I attached the Dell TL4000 tape library. A jail on this server copied Bacula backups from disk to tape. In this post: FreeBSD 12.0 Bacula 9.4.3 Dell R720 Investigation As anticipated, I needed to update the server configuration to cope with changed device numbers. The symptoms: when running the update slots command from within bconsole, I was getting this response.

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