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For future reference, this is the knew server. It runs a few jails, including Bacula regression testing services. File systems Paritions zpools /var/run/dmesg.boot
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Importing a zpool and renaming it
Last night, I moved a SAS card and had to renumber some devices. I also moved two SSDs into the same box (see photos). Those SSDs were the boot drives from the system from which I pulled the SAS drive. That box, tape01, contains the Bacula configuration file I need for this new box. I
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Adding in a SAS card renumbered my devices
Last night, I added a SAS card into a box which is connected to a tape library (photos here). After starting up the box, Nagios reported that the tape device was no longer present. I first added such checks back in 2012 and updated them for more recent acquisitions. This means that the copy-to-tape jobs
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Adding a failed HDD back into a ZFS mirror
I do have a FreeBSD-11 box, cuppy: $ uname -a FreeBSD cuppy.int.unixathome.org 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r279394: Sat Feb 28 21:01:21 UTC 2015 dan@cuppy.unixathome.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 $ That box is used mostly for testing and/or erasing DLT tapes. The current status of that box is not healthy. It’s running fine, but it is not optimal: Let’s
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Added new drive when existing one gave errors, then zpool replace
In this post, I am working with FreeBSD 10.2 on this server. Over the past few days, a 3 year old drive has been giving errors. The number of errors has been constant, but I have a spare drive here, so I decided to replace it. I have verified that it is out of warranty.
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smartd: Device: /dev/ada0, 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors persists
That smartd: Device: /dev/ada0, 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors problem which arose on Sunday is still around. I’ve run a short test, a long test, and a ZFS scrub is now underway. I may just replace the drive. $ sudo smartctl -P show /dev/ada0 smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p9 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C)
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smartd: Device: /dev/ada0, 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
This morning I discovered this in my logs: Feb 14 04:56:39 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): READ_DMA48. ACB: 25 00 b8 a8 f0 40 4b 00 00 00 e8 00 Feb 14 04:56:54 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): CAM status: ATA Status Error Feb 14 04:56:54 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): ATA status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR), error: 40 (UNC )
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Using a Dell TL4000 with Bacula’s bacula-sd on FreeBSD with ZFS
Last night, I managed to install new (but used) SAS cables for my Dell TL4000 on the tape01 server. I managed to get bacula-sd running, but I was unable to communicate with it from bacula-dir, via bconsole on my laptop. Eventually, I ran bacula-sd from the command line in the foreground and with debugging and
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Dell TL4000 tape library: running btape and configuring Bacula’s mtx-changer
In this post, I am using FreeBSD 10.2 and Bacula 7.4.0. I am now the proud second-hand owner of a Dell TL4000. The first thing I did was add an air filter. Why? Because I can. I got one made, with custom dimensions, by DEMCiflex. You can see that filter here in this photo. My
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tape01
This post has been superseded by a newer post. The new SFF-8088 to SFF-8088 SAS cables have arrived and have been connected to the LSI 9200-8E SAS card and to the Dell TL4000 tape library. The updated the dmesg output etc and appear on this page, for future reference. The significant portion is: I will