Can I really swap CPU and RAM between my Dell R730 servers? I wrote about that recently. Sure. It might just work. First, let’s look at the service tags and find out. I have four Dell R730 servers in the basement: r730-01 – main development server – add some RAM from r730-04 and swap in …
Can I really swap CPU and RAM between my Dell R730 servers? Read More »
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 …
Moving time capsule from host to jail and connecting my MacBook to ZFS on FreeBSD Read More »
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 …
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 Today I noticed this post is out of date.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 …
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 …
Bacula: copying jobs from one bacula-sd to another bacula-sd on FreeBSD Read More »
This is the Dell R730 host known as R730-03. It replaces an earlier post. gpart zpool list zpool status File systems dmesg sesutil show jls
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 …
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. 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 …
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 …
How much noise will I lose when I power off this server? Read More »
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. In this post: …