This post has been replaced by a newer post. This is the Dell R730 host known as r730-03. It replaces an earlier post. This new post was created because I added two more 12T drives. gpart zpool list zpool status File systems dmesg sesutil show jls
Today, I’m ready to adding two recently obtained 12T spinning disks to r730-03. This host is the work-horse which houses all the main backups and database regression testing. It also hosts my newly-created but not yet-functional graylog jail. I will be following a previous post about adding drives because I don’t want to remember these things. They occur infrequently enough that documenting it is a good idea. In this post: FreeBSD 14 The
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I’ve been given a Dell PowerEdge 720, which will be known as r720-02. It sits in a datacenter in New York, New York, and acts as a FreshPorts node. For example, if you’ve ever accessed dev, test, or stage [.freshports.org], then you’ve accessed this host. Partitions zpools The zpools: Filesystems The filesystems: dmesg And dmesg:
The accomplished reader will first ask, how is this post any different from Clearing-out multiple drives concurrently – while Watching Fargo Season 5? Well, first, it’s a different server. This one is r720-01. Second, I’m watching Band of Brothers, which is completely different. However, the approach is the same: Boot the host using an mfsBSD thumb drive ssh in as root wipe the drives watch Band of Brothers profit What’s not to like?
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I know, I know. You can hardly contain your excitement as you read about my exploits. In this post, I add the drives into the host and run some simple tests. As in recent posts about 12T drives, these drives are not new. They are used drives. A later post will deal with the commands which add these new drives into an existing zpool. These drives came from serverpartdeals.com. They are used and
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I have used Tarsnap since at least 2017. The jobs ran nightly. It wasn’t until three years later, that I started cleaning up old backups. Now I’ve found a tool which manages this for me (sysutils/acts) courtesy of a toot by M W Lucas. The selling point of this tool: By default, 31 daily, 12 monthly, and indefinite yearly backups are kept. Sounds good enough for me. I’ll buy that. The install and
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This is the Dell R730 host known as r730-03. It replaces an earlier post. This new post was created because the network card was changed from a 1G fiber card to a 10G fiber card. gpart zpool list zpool status File systems dmesg sesutil show jls
I run poudriere in a jail on FreeBSD – it really is becoming the thing-to-do with all the cool kids. Everyone’s doing it. It is nifty. I will provide only the jail configuration, and not any file system configuration. That is left for you. I think these links might be most helpful: Using poudriere to create a custom FreeBSD repository for package installation Moving poudriere from the host into a jail In this
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It is time to let the knew server go. It has gone through multiple upgrades, new drives, new boards, and new chassis. It has been replaced by r730-03. Before I let it go, I want to clear off the drives. By that I mean: I did this by booting the host using mfBSD (a lovely USB-bootable version of FreeBSD). I then ssh‘d in as root (one of the few situations when ssh as
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This is a rewrite of a previous post on the same subject. I have rewritten it because I created a new jail ™ and I’m using a different configuration now. I recently moved a Time Capsule instance from a FreeBSD host into a jail. Later, I moved to using Samba instead of AFP. Why? Samba seems to be the preferred solution because AFP has been deprecated. It still works, but let’s go Samba.
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