I wrote this back when and left it in drafts. Time to publishh. I was getting this message when one of my MacBooks was trying to back via TimeMachine to my FreeBSD ZFS server. “The backup disk image … sparsebundle could not be accessed (error 19)” imeMachine also told me the last backup was on […]
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I have another laptop I want to backup using my Time Capsule jail. Here are the step I used. Create a Unix User I have no idea if I need to do this. But I did. But now, I’m thinking, it is not required, at all. But read on, I think I’ll show you where
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I have written recently about creating a ZFS-based Time Machine on FreeBSD. Yesterday, I did my first restore from this instance. Surprise. It worked. Please move along. Nothing to see here. Just photos. The motivation: I’m replacing one MacBook with another. Some details here on Twitter. Edit – 2024-02-22 After I messed up when renaming
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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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I encounter edge cases. It’s not fun. This particular situation caused OXS Mail.app to crash when using a VPN. The outline This particular edge case involved the following: OSX 10.11.1 (15B42) Tunnelblick 3.5.5 (build 4270.4461) Mail.app When running Mail.app, it would crash within 5-10 seconds. The full dump of the crash has been sent to
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I upgraded to Yosmite today. It was not without pain. I use openconnect, which in turn, uses tuntap. After upgrading, my connection attempts resulted in: Failed to open tun device: No such file or directory Set up tun device failed I was also seeing this in /var/log/system.log: Oct 28 15:39:39 snorty.example.org com.apple.kextd[19]: ERROR: invalid signature
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I recently acquired a MacBook Pro. Things are going well. I’m using Time Capsule, but I also want to use Bacula. I went with MacPorts: This article will show how I got Bacula running on OSX. sudo port install bacula +client_only NOTE: for more recent version of MacPorts, this command worked: sudo port install bacula
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