Author name: Dan Langille

I've been playing with computers since I read an Elementary Electronics magazine way back in the 1970s. I started contributing to open source projects in 1998. After that, I gradually moved from being a software developer to being a systems administrator.

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

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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 jobs over from one SD to another, now that the required space is installed and configured. In this […]

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Getting the right type of certificate

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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 There was also an ssl-admin issue In this post: FreeBSD 13.2 ssl-admin-1.3.0 Bacula 9.6.7 – yes, that is rather outdated;

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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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