I’ve used Bacula since at least January 2004 (so nearly 20 years). I liked it so much I dropped my deployment-in-motion of another tool (if you search lightly, you can find out which one). I liked it so much, I wrote a PostgreSQL backend for it. This post is not for Bacula novices. This post […]
Bacula – calculating Maximum Volume Bytes and Maximum Volumes based on historical data Read More »
Today I’m setting up snmpd on a new [to me] host. It’s a Dell R730. Previously, my documentation for this was a bit jumbled. It was written in 2015 and contains a few updates and corrections. It was hard to follow, even for me. This new post is an update of that one. See my
Configuration of net-mgmt/net-snmp on FreeBSD Read More »
I’m retiring knew and moving the services over to r730-03. I recently added 2 12TB drives to the latter host. In this post, I’ll start the migration process by identifying what data needs to move, from where, and to where. In this post: knew r730-03 FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p2 The data There are the zpools in question:
Identifying jails and data to migrate from old host to new host Read More »
The vnet (network subsystem virtualization infrastructure) on FreeBSD is both a blessing and a curse. For me, it isn’t working well with IPv6. I’ve hit issues with pf (since solved, I’m sure). It’s a useful feature but can be confusing. It helps to have lots of time to think about it and what you’re doing.
Changing how I use IP address with FreeBSD’s vnet – so IPv6 works Read More »
FreshPorts make use of a simple python daemon (fp_listen). It has been in use since at least 2006. It was (I think) vermaden who mentioned it (I can’t find the reference) and it triggered an idea. The role of fp_listen is to listen for backend notifications and respond accordingly. One of its primary goals is
Using FreeBSD’s daemon(8)? Consider -r Read More »
Today I removed and added the same package. The add failed. Background: I install from my own custom package repo server I do not install from the FreeBSD package servers My packages are built via poudriere The same basic repo configuration file has been in use for years This is what I just encountered: [tallboy
pkg: No SRV record found for the repo ‘local’ Read More »
NOTE: this problem was fixed by moving all the IP addresses to the bridge. See Changing how I use IP address with FreeBSD’s vnet – so IPv6 works I just restarted my pkg01 jail. Now Nagios can’t see it on IPv6. In fact, none of the jails on this host can now ping pkg01. This
vnet jail on FreeBSD not letting pings through from another non-vnet jail Read More »
It’s good to do automated backups. When you do that, add monitoring to make sure the backups are occurring successfully. In my case, I backup using Bacula. Each job creates a new .bsr file. I copy these files to another location each day. Then I monitor the dates on those files and they should all
Monitor your backups Read More »
Yesterday, I noticed this message in one of the “daily security run output” emails which FreeBSD host can send out. I’ve used net-mgmt/nrpe3 for several years. It checks remote hosts and runs any number of predetermined commands and returns the results. It’s stable, highly configurable, and just keeps running. I had a look at the
Nagios 3: moving from nrpe 3 to nrpe 4 – what needs changing? Read More »
I have jails with both IP4 and IPv6 addresses. Lately, I’ve been noticing this in /var/log/messages: And this in console messages: Looking in the jail, it had IPv6 addresses. What gives? In this post: FreeBDS 13.1 The jail example I had a jail, similar to this: After the jail started, I could see both IP
Is your jail not getting an IPv6 address soon enough? Blame DAD. Read More »