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Moving Bacula Volumes from one Storage to Another

A few weeks ago, I moved some Bacula Volumes from one Storage Daemon to another. In fact, I was decommissioning the old bacula-sd and creating a new one. I copied all the Volumes over. Backups have been running smoothly ever since. However. Today I tried a restore. It failed. Without any useful diagnostic information. Here

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ezjail-admin: moving a jail between hosts with archive

I’m in the process of moving a system from one server to another. Today, I’m going to try moving a jail using ezjail-admin archive. The two systems I am copying jails between these two systems: source: FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE destination: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p4 I really am interested to see if this works. Creating the archive Best practice

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sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root?

Tonight I created a new jail, and later installed sudo into that jail. Then I tried to run sudo: $ sudo make install clean sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root? What? It is setuid: $ ls -l `which sudo` -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 117112 Jul 26 17:08 /usr/local/bin/sudo I had

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Moving zfs datasets / filesystems around

After the zfs send, I had system/foo/bar, but I really just wanted system/bar. How do I fix that? mv(1) was my first guess. I was wrong. What I wanted was zfs(8) rename. Let me explain. After doing my: zfs send storage/compressed/bacula@2013.07.22:06:33 | mbuffer | ssh -t dan@10.5.0.20 ‘zfs receive system/usr/local/bacula/FromKraken’ I quite, correctly, wound up

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