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FreeBSD 14 upgrade – files not removed by delete-old

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I was upgrading a jail (dns1) on r730-01 and I noticed this output from mkjail: In this post: FreeBSD 13.2 (upgrading from) FreeBSD 14.0 (upgrading to) mkjail-0.0.4 (upgrading with) EDIT: 2023-12-05 : This happened again when I updated the tallboy host. Looking at the mkjail source, I realized it had just completed the pkg upgrade and delete-old steps. I manually ran the delete-old command: [14:01 r730-01 dvl ~/src/scripts] % sudo jexec dns1 make […]

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Figuring out the upgrade path for AWS RDS from PostgreSQL 12.14 to PostgreSQL 16.1

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These are my notes on figuring out an upgrade path for the FreshPorts PostgreSQL 12.14 database hosted on Amazon RDS. Most of this is based on Upgrading the PostgreSQL DB engine for Amazon RDS The sections of this post relate to the sections found at the above URL. First, I installed the AWS CLI (via py39-awscli, created an Access Key for my AWS login, and ran: Note that on line 4 I did

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Bacula: Moving from 9.x to 13.x and upgrading the PostgreSQL database

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I have been using Bacula since 2004. It is my backup solution of choice, not only because it has a PostgreSQL backend, but it is flexible, robust, and reliable. I, on the other hand, have long ignored recent releases. I’m using Bacula 9.6.7 (released on 2021-01-26), roughly 3 years ago. Today, I started the upgrade to 13.0.1 (still not the latest release, but that’s because of a minor compile issue, not yet resolved;

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I figured out why pg_dump was failing with PostgreSQL 15-16

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In recent blog post, I outlined a problem I hit with pg_dump. Specifically, pg_dump was picking up and using ~/.pgpass with pg_dump from PostgreSQL 12-14, but with PostgreSQL 15-16, it was failing. In this blog post: FreeBSD 13.2 PostgreSQL server 12 / 16 PostgreSQL client 12-16 Bacula 9.6.7 Today we figured out why: $HOME. $HOME for the script was set to / In PostgreSQL < 15, the code used the database to determine

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While restoring my PostgreSQL database to a new FreeBSD server, I discovered the wrong database server in a configuration file

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Lately, I’ve been preparing to move from PostgreSQL 12 to PostgreSQL 16 – my main developement database server at home needs to get updated. The goal: migrate each database from the old host (running PostgreSQL 12) to the new host (running PostgreSQL 16) using pg_dump and pg_restore. Today, I decided to migrate the Bacula database. I ran a pg_dump on pg02 today. Then a pg_restore on pg03. That took about 6 hours I

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Jails with embedded, but not jailed, ZFS datasets – how to mount/umount – corrected

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This is a rewrite of Jails with embedded, but not jailed, ZFS datasets – how to mount/umount. First, this is not about jailed ZFS datasets. I use them for FreshPorts, but that’s not I’m going to talk about here. In this post: FreeBSD 13.2 This is my example: [22:25 r730-03 dvl ~] % zfs list | grep bacula-sd-04 data01/bacula-volumes 12.1T 4.18T 96K /jails/bacula-sd-04/usr/local/bacula/volumes data01/bacula-volumes/DiffFile 109G 915G 109G /jails/bacula-sd-04/usr/local/bacula/volumes/DiffFile data01/bacula-volumes/FullFile 4.00T 2.00T 3.89T /jails/bacula-sd-04/usr/local/bacula/volumes/FullFile

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Moving 4x storage devices into a new home

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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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Got a pkg vuln you can’t get rid of?

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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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Creating a Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS

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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: snapshot your datasets on a regular basis. I like using sanoid for that. That way, if your

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Jails with embedded, but not jailed, ZFS datasets – how to mount/umount

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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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