I’ve noticed that the smartd output has changed. It’s not parsing the results correctly. Security check: (output mailed separately) Checking for denied zone transfers (AXFR and IXFR): Scrubbing of zfs pools: skipping scrubbing of pool ‘system’: last scrubbing is 3 days ago, threshold is set to 7 days Backing up pkgng database: SMART status: Checking […]
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I wrote this nearly a year ago, but did not publish it then. Tonight I found this query running, so I tried an explain analyse on it: That’s 10 seconds. Add an index: bacula=# create index media_lastwritten_idx on media(lastwritten); CREATE INDEX Run the query again: Forgive my math, but that’s over 10,000 times faster now.
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This just in: But I can’t fix that now. I’m off to the Oscars party.
Nagios smartmon stops working after python upgrade Read More »
How much space is used by my ZFS snapshots? That’s the question I asked. I found the answer here. Hope that helps.
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Looks like I got DOS’d: I base that conclusion on the above messages and this post.
This post has it all: backups deduplication snapshots ZFS Bacula ezjail Backups are essential for proper sanity, or at least, a reasonable facsimile. I strongly believe that doing backups right is the only way to backup. Go big or go home. I’ve been converting all my servers to ZFS. I like ZFS for many reasons,
Script for listing the latest ZFS snapshot – starting place for Bacula backups Read More »
One of my goals with the server I’m setting up is putting non-public services into jails with non-routable IP addresses. Today, I’ve been working on getting PostgreSQL into a jail. The problem I have been grappling with is not putting PostgreSQL into a jail but routing. It took me a while to figure out where
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With this new server, I am taking a new approach. Each jail will have at least three IP addresses: The public IP4 address, used by internet facing services (e.g. http or https) The public IPv6 address, similar to the above A VPN address, used for system administration and private services (e.g. nrpe) In this article,
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A few days I configured a new server to be an Ansible node. This will allow my Ansible configuration tool to configure and install software. Installing Ansible and getting it running is not covered by the post. All I show here is how I got a remote server ready to be configured by Ansible. The
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This is zuul, the server I’ve been setting up to be a new jail host. I like to store away this type of documentation, in case I need it later. The partitions: The ZFS file systems: The ada0 drive details: And ada1 drive details: And finally, dmesg: