Copies of data are good. Especially if on a different host. zfs snapshots combined with zfs send | zfs recv make replication of zfs file systems especially easy. I am already using sanoid to manage zfs snapshots. Now I’m going to use syncoid to transfer those snapshots to another host. Both sanoid and syncoid are […]
using syncoid to backup ZFS snapshots – home assistant Read More »
I’ve been trying to update the website to PHP 8.1, but the WordPress Theme I’ve been using is from 2016 and has not been updated. For now, I’ve tossed in the Neve theme, which means it looks wonky, but the content is available. I’ll fix it up soon.
Odd look to the website Read More »
After the former FreshPorts server was retired, its OpenVPN credential were revoked. I maintain those certificates via ssl-admin. I uploaded the new CRL into the System | Certificate Manager | Certificate Revocation page in pfSense. Today, I was seeing strange errors in Nagios, and figured someone wasn’t connected to the VPN. Checking OpenVPN client logs,
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The FreshPorts dev, test, and stage websites are hosted on a server in my basement. Each instance consists of two jails: an ingress node – for pulling in new commits (and other data) into the database. a webserver node – for displaying the web pages. The new drives: Sometimes the zpool gets too close to
Upgrading an NVMe zpool from 222G to 1TB drives Read More »
This is just rough notes for myself. List the gpart output for each drive in my system. for drive in $(sysctl -n kern.disks) do gpart show $drive done gpart: No such geom: da11. => 40 9767541088 da10 GPT (4.5T) 40 8392664 – free – (4.0G) 8392704 9758048256 3 freebsd-zfs (4.5T) 9766440960 1100168 – free –
Where’s my drives? Read More »
This post is based on a tweet and was created after a followup incident occurred today. The post was created to consolidate the information into a blog post so I could easily find it later. Details about this host (disks, zpool, gpart, etc) are in this post. On March 15 2022, I noticed these messages
da12 in my FreeBSD zfs array disappeared at :02 and came back at :04 Read More »
In my previous blog post, I got homeassistant up and running, but without a TLS connection. Let’s fix that. In this post: FreeBSD 13.1 but that’s not relevant to the work being done homeassistant-2022.8.7 creation of a certificate is not covered the sysadmin.com guide covers this – it creates a self-signed cert I’m using a
Adding an SSL certificate to HomeAssistant Read More »
Home Assistant is not friendly for plain installs. It seems designed for containers or running everything out of pip install. That, in itself, is a disturbing trend I’ve seen on several projects (what? you’re not running a git cloned image?). I’ve seen reports of people running containers etc. However, I want to run this on
Getting Home Assistant running in a FreeBSD 13.1 jail Read More »
A while back, the https://www.freebsddiary.org/topics.php#opteron – the colo facility was purchased and the new owners are not interested in donating services to open source projects. That host also acted as a DNS host for all my domain. I pressed a small VPS into service. It handled the query services fine, but updates were sluggish. It
nsupdate – update failed: REFUSED Read More »
I wrote this in October 2016. It was not published until August 2022. I loved being at Grace Hopper. I met some very great people and had the opportunity to talk to them about open source software. I got some great ideas from some folks and I sure hope the stuff I passed on will
Grace Hopper – My impressions Read More »