My goal is to make an easy way to upgrade with beadm by using the idea found in this post. I had a problem with my first attempt which I solved with the details in this post. boot mfsBSD This tool has very quickly become one of my favorites. I like how easy it is to pop in a USB drive and boot a live version of FreeBSD to do stuff. The import […]
Fixing the system/bootenv/default/usr to be mounted Read More »
I started trying a Root-on-ZFS upgrade using beadm and quickly encountered an anomaly: no /usr/bin Then, it was there, then it wasn’t. I wasn’t sure of what steps I took to reproduce it. So I went through logs and eventually understood what happened. Let me show you. Here is what I did: # beadm create 10.1-RELEASE # beadm mount 10.1-RELEASE /mnt # mount -t devfs devfs /mnt/dev # chroot /mnt csh: Cannot open
now it’s not there, now it is Read More »
Today I sat down to install some packages on a server I just configured for Ansible and iocage. I failed. My poudriere host runs FreeBSD 9.3 and can build for older version of FreeBSD but not newer versions. Solution: upgrade that host. I will be using beadm to allow me to keep my existing 9.3 and create a new 10.1 on the same host. I will be able to switch between the two
Modifying a ZFS root system to a beadm layout Read More »
All of my previous jail hosts have used ezjail. I have recently played with both bsdploy and iocage. The primary purpose of this post is showing you how to install
Getting started with iocage for jails on FreeBSD Read More »
This is tallboy, the server I have at RootBSD. I like to store away this type of documentation, in case I need it later. This server was originally on UFS with gmirror. The partitions: The ada0 drive details: And ada1 drive details: And finally, dmesg:
I just converted another server from UFS to ZFS. I used this script as my starting point. I dropped to a shell as soon as I booted from the live CD. Then I fetch my script: fetch –no-verify-peer http://bit.ly/1MvhRXH mv 1MvhRXH install.sh I didn’t run the script. I modified it to suite my new conditions. The install files were not available. I put and exit around line 84. Then I ran my script:
Another zroot install Read More »
In this post, I am using FreeBSD 9.3 but what I do here should have wide application, especially the errors I encounter. I believe in backups. Not just rsync, but multiple copies and in multiple places. RAID is not a backup. rsync is not a backup. The goal of this post is to send a copy of a ZFS filesystem to a remote server. The server in question is already backed up in
zfs send | zfs receive as non-root Read More »
A problem arose today which I have never seen before. I do not know what caused it and I do not know precisely how I fixed it. I am using Baclua 7.0.5 on FreeBSD 9.3 I found this email today: This is Bacula asking for more ‘tape’. I say tape, because that is an easy analogy to follow. In effect, the tape library has no tapes to which Bacula can place this backup.
Cannot find any appendable volumes – Bacula Read More »
I encountered this issue today on a FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p4 system. The solution: freebsd-update fetch install and then a reboot.
freebsd-update failed an integrity check Read More »
Earlier today, I saw a bunch of emails like this: for <root@localhos>; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:32:36 +0000 (UTC) From: root@localhost.example.org (Bacula) Subject: Bacula: Copy Fatal Error of crey-fd Full Sender: bacula@bacula.example.org To: root@localhost.example.org Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:32:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-Id: <20150121203236.E993D2B28@bacula.example.org> X-Gm-Original-To: dan@example.org 21-Jan 20:32 bacula-dir JobId 197313: Warning: FileSet MD5 digest not found. 21-Jan 20:32 bacula-dir JobId 197313: The following 1 JobId was chosen to be copied: 197238 21-Jan
Bacula helps me solve a mergemaster problem which broke Bacula Read More »