Yesterday I did some scavenging of some servers which I’m going to dispose of. I managed to put together 4 x 1TB storage devices: 2 x NVMe sticks and 2 x SSDs. I also pulled a riser card from an R730 and relocated it to another host. The NVMe sticks are mounted on these PCIe cards, which I do not regret buying. They came with full height and low-profile brackets. More to the […]
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I’ve been working on this for a while. [23:18 r730-01 dvl ~] % pkg audit curl-8.4.0 is vulnerable: curl — SOCKS5 heap buffer overflow CVE: CVE-2023-38545 WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/d6c19e8c-6806-11ee-9464-b42e991fc52e.html 1 problem(s) in 1 installed package(s) found. [23:18 r730-01 dvl ~] % The original vuxml entry got it wrong. This problem was fixed in 8.4.0 A subsequent commit fixed that. So why am I still having this problem 48 hours later? mtime. This Mastodon thread
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This post has been replaced by Creating a Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS (latest) I recently moved a Time Capsule instance from a FreeBSD host into a jail. Today, I’m going to create a new Time Capsule which uses 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. Not covered in this post, but recommended:
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This approach did not work, because I used the wrong set of filesystems. See below for Error. This post has been replaced by Jails with embedded, but not jailed, ZFS datasets – how to mount/umount – corrected. NOTE: on yesterday’s (2023-10-04) reboot, the file systems did not properly mount. zfs get mounted said they were mounted, but the directories were empty. Stopping, then starting the jail resulted in a proper mount. I wonder
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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 to accomplish this move. It won’t go into the details of how to set up Time Capsule. See
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I’m moving some backups from one bacula-sd to another bacula-sd. If you don’t know what that means, this is not the post for you. You need more Bacula knowledge. I’m retiring a host and moving some of the backups on that host to another host. This post follows on from Bacula – copying the latest jobs over from one SD to another, now that the required space is installed and configured. In this
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This post covers my debugging of a self-signed certificate on one of my Bacula instances. The error message is: I’ve encountered that unsupported certificate purpose message before: OpenVPN: unsupported certificate purpose SSL client vs server certificates and bacula-fd I always thought it was a server versus client issue. Now I’m not so sure. There was also an ssl-admin issue In this post: FreeBSD 13.2 ssl-admin-1.3.0 Bacula 9.6.7 – yes, that is rather outdated;
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As mentioned in several previous posts, I’m moving a server from one chassis to another. None of the hardware is coming over. Just the jails and data. These drives came from serverpartdeals.com. They are used and re-certified. Recently, I’ve been trying out two new 12TB drives. I’m looking forward to the reduced noise level, as well as the reduced power consumption and heat. In this post: FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p2 The testing zpool I created
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I want to copy the latest backups for each Bacula client over to a new host. I already do this, on an automated basis, for recent backups, primarily to have the same backups in two different places. In this case, I want to do this once. This post might also be a good introduction to copying / moving jobs based on SQL queries. See also Bacula – copy to tape by job size
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I see see these log messages on a regular basis. There is no distinct pattern. Some nights there might be 1, others 2. Today there were three: r730-01 is my main server in the basement. It runs a jail named pkg01, which does my nightly poudriere builds. Those jobs are launched from this crontab: That UID relates to nobody and matches up with what poudriere does (runs as nobody). [11:46 pkg01 dan ~]
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