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OK, we got a Time Machine on ZFS on FreeBSD. So what. Can we restore from it?

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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Moving time capsule from host to jail and connecting my MacBook to ZFS on FreeBSD

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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OSX Mail crashes when using TunnelBlick and setting DNS/WINS

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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Getting openconnect & tuntap working on Yosemite OSX

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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