February 2020 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

The backups have been wrong for about 97 days

I backup my databases daily. They get dumped to a disk file and copied somewhere else. Then they are backed up into a file system. Once a month they get copied to tape. Yesterday I upgraded a PostgreSQL database server, and it went well. Overnight, a backup failed. This is the story of how that led to me discovering my backups have been at risk for nearly 100 days. The error This morning

Feb 1 2020

Creating a ZFS dataset for testing iocage within a jail

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD, iocage, Jails, Open Source / By Dan Langille / February 1, 2020

Be warned, this failed. I’m stalled and I have not completed this. I’m going to do jails within a jail. I already do that with poudriere in a jail but here I want to test an older version of iocage before upgrading my current jail hosts to a newer version. In this post: FreeBSD 12.1 py36-iocage-1.2_3 py36-iocage-1.2_4 This post includes my errors and mistakes. Perhaps you should proceed carefully and read it all

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