It’s good to do automated backups. When you do that, add monitoring to make sure the backups are occurring successfully. In my case, I backup using Bacula. Each job creates a new .bsr file. I copy these files to another location each day. Then I monitor the dates on those files and they should all be less then a day or so old. Edit (added 2023-08-29) This post is about upgrading net-mgmt/unifi6 to […]
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Yesterday, I noticed this message in one of the “daily security run output” emails which FreeBSD host can send out. I’ve used net-mgmt/nrpe3 for several years. It checks remote hosts and runs any number of predetermined commands and returns the results. It’s stable, highly configurable, and just keeps running. I had a look at the replacement (net-mgmt/nrpe) and decided to build and install it. First, it went onto my poudriere package bulding host
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