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Transferring a VM from one provider to another

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Yesterday, I mentioned (in more than one place) that I planned to move a 2017 Digital Ocean droplet over to Azure. As I sit here, with coffee, on the balcony, overlooking lot of green trees, at 7:45 AM, I’m trying to put into words the plan I came up with about 30 minutes ago. In this post: Digital Ocean Microsoft Azure FreeBSD 14.1 Why move? There is no technical issue or dissatisfaction involved […]

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/etc/rc.subr: 1391: Syntax error: “fi”: unexpected

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Yesterday, I upgraded a DigitalOcean droplet from FreeBSD 10.3 to FreeBSD 11.1 just before I headed to work. I’ve done such upgrades several times before. They all went well. This one did not. Several issues cascaded to prevent me from completely this task in a timely manner. Let me describe the events as they unfolded. The freebsd-update From memory, because the system is not back online as I type this, the command I

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