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Moving time capsule from host to jail and connecting my MacBook to ZFS on FreeBSD

I have Macbooks at home I use them. I use Time Capsule on ZFS on FreeBSD to back them up. In this post: FreeBSD 13.2 OSX Ventura 13.6 I first implemented this directly on the FreeBSD host. Today, I am moving that service into a jail. This post will roughly outline the changes I made […]

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Bacula: copying jobs from one bacula-sd to another bacula-sd on FreeBSD

I’m moving some backups from one bacula-sd to another bacula-sd. If you don’t know what that means, this is not the post for you. You need more Bacula knowledge. I’m retiring a host and moving some of the backups on that host to another host. This post follows on from Bacula – copying the latest

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Getting the right type of certificate

This post covers my debugging of a self-signed certificate on one of my Bacula instances. The error message is: I’ve encountered that unsupported certificate purpose message before: OpenVPN: unsupported certificate purpose SSL client vs server certificates and bacula-fd I always thought it was a server versus client issue. Now I’m not so sure. There was

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Adding two more 12TB drives to the mirror

As mentioned in several previous posts, I’m moving a server from one chassis to another. None of the hardware is coming over. Just the jails and data. These drives came from serverpartdeals.com. They are used and re-certified. Recently, I’ve been trying out two new 12TB drives. I’m looking forward to the reduced noise level, as

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Bacula – copying the latest jobs over from one SD to another

I want to copy the latest backups for each Bacula client over to a new host. I already do this, on an automated basis, for recent backups, primarily to have the same backups in two different places. In this case, I want to do this once. This post might also be a good introduction to

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kernel: pid 4900 (conftest), jid 968, uid 65534: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)

I see see these log messages on a regular basis. There is no distinct pattern. Some nights there might be 1, others 2. Today there were three: r730-01 is my main server in the basement. It runs a jail named pkg01, which does my nightly poudriere builds. Those jobs are launched from this crontab: That

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Bacula – calculating Maximum Volume Bytes and Maximum Volumes based on historical data

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

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Identifying jails and data to migrate from old host to new host

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:

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