August 2023

Adding two more 12TB drives to the mirror

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As mentioned in several previous posts, I’m moving a server from one chassis to another. None of the hardware is coming over. Just the jails and data. These drives came from serverpartdeals.com. They are used and re-certified. Recently, I’ve been trying out two new 12TB drives. I’m looking forward to the reduced noise level, as well as the reduced power consumption and heat. In this post: FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p2 The testing zpool I created […]

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How much noise will I lose when I power off this server?

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This morning I pondered how much will noise reduce when I power off that server? From the comfort of my living room, directly above the rack in the basement, I powered it off. At first, I was disappointed. I could still hear that repetitive whine. After considering powering off one of the other hosts, I realized the noise I heard was the ceiling fan. After switching that off, I could no longer hear

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They’re here! 2x (new-to-me 12TB HDD)

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Yesterday, the drive cages arrived. Today, the 2x (new-to-me 12TB HDD) arrived. They are already mounted in their drive cages and installed. Let’s look at them. This post is similar to Testing two 12TB drives to a Dell R730 on FreeBSD. If you want to know most about the tests, see that. These drives came from serverpartdeals.com. They are used and re-certified. In this post: FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p2 Dell R730 In they go This

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Bacula – copying the latest jobs over from one SD to another

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I want to copy the latest backups for each Bacula client over to a new host. I already do this, on an automated basis, for recent backups, primarily to have the same backups in two different places. In this case, I want to do this once. This post might also be a good introduction to copying / moving jobs based on SQL queries. See also Bacula – copy to tape by job size

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kernel: pid 4900 (conftest), jid 968, uid 65534: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)

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I see see these log messages on a regular basis. There is no distinct pattern. Some nights there might be 1, others 2. Today there were three: r730-01 is my main server in the basement. It runs a jail named pkg01, which does my nightly poudriere builds. Those jobs are launched from this crontab: That UID relates to nobody and matches up with what poudriere does (runs as nobody). [11:46 pkg01 dan ~]

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Bacula – calculating Maximum Volume Bytes and Maximum Volumes based on historical data

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I’ve used Bacula since at least January 2004 (so nearly 20 years). I liked it so much I dropped my deployment-in-motion of another tool (if you search lightly, you can find out which one). I liked it so much, I wrote a PostgreSQL backend for it. This post is not for Bacula novices. This post is for those who have already deployed a Bacula instance and are rather familiar with the process. I

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Configuration of net-mgmt/net-snmp on FreeBSD

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Today I’m setting up snmpd on a new [to me] host. It’s a Dell R730. Previously, my documentation for this was a bit jumbled. It was written in 2015 and contains a few updates and corrections. It was hard to follow, even for me. This new post is an update of that one. See my FreeBSD Forums post where I spent a long time figuring out why the JAIL option needs careful consideration.

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Identifying jails and data to migrate from old host to new host

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I’m retiring knew and moving the services over to r730-03. I recently added 2 12TB drives to the latter host. In this post, I’ll start the migration process by identifying what data needs to move, from where, and to where. In this post: knew r730-03 FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p2 The data There are the zpools in question: [15:19 knew dan ~] % zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT

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Changing how I use IP address with FreeBSD’s vnet – so IPv6 works

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The vnet (network subsystem virtualization infrastructure) on FreeBSD is both a blessing and a curse. For me, it isn’t working well with IPv6. I’ve hit issues with pf (since solved, I’m sure). It’s a useful feature but can be confusing. It helps to have lots of time to think about it and what you’re doing. I talked about this amongst the FreeBSD jail group and out of that came a blog post: The

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Testing two 12TB drives in a Dell R730 on FreeBSD

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I’m ready to downsize. I’m going to replace knew with r730-03. The former has 20 5TB drives. I don’t need all that space now. I’ll settle for 12TB instead. The two new drives arrived today: [23:39 r730-03 dvl ~] % grep da2 /var/run/dmesg.boot da2 at mrsas0 bus 1 scbus1 target 2 lun 0 da2: Fixed Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device da2: Serial Number 8CJVT8YE da2: 150.000MB/s transfers da2: 11444224MB (23437770752 512 byte sectors)

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