September 2023

Moving time capsule from host to jail and connecting my MacBook to ZFS on FreeBSD

I have Macbooks at home I use them. I use Time Capsule on ZFS on FreeBSD to back them up. In this post: FreeBSD 13.2 OSX Ventura 13.6 I first implemented this directly on the FreeBSD host. Today, I am moving that service into a jail. This post will roughly outline the changes I made …

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Why didn’t I choose the bigger CPUs?

I have four Dell R730 servers in the basement: r730-01 – main development server R730-02 – unused r730-03 – main storage server R730-04 – unused So what’s on each one? If you look at each of the links, you’ll find this information on CPU and RAM. The information is collected from /var/run/dmesg.boot, but not presented …

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r730-01

For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. Today I noticed this post is out of date. I like to keep this information around for each host, just in case it’s needed during a rescue mission. This is my primary developer server in my basement. gpart zpool list zpool status zfs list …

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Bacula: copying jobs from one bacula-sd to another bacula-sd on FreeBSD

I’m moving some backups from one bacula-sd to another bacula-sd. If you don’t know what that means, this is not the post for you. You need more Bacula knowledge. I’m retiring a host and moving some of the backups on that host to another host. This post follows on from Bacula – copying the latest …

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Getting the right type of certificate

This post covers my debugging of a self-signed certificate on one of my Bacula instances. The error message is: I’ve encountered that unsupported certificate purpose message before: OpenVPN: unsupported certificate purpose SSL client vs server certificates and bacula-fd I always thought it was a server versus client issue. Now I’m not so sure. There was …

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