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zfstools & sanoid – snapshots on the local host

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I’m going to implement zfstools on all my ZFS-based hosts today. I first started using this tool in July 2019. In this post: FreeBSD 12.0 and 12.1 zfstools 0.3.6_1 sanoid-2.0.1_2 Local snapshots only I will be using zfstool only for creating local snapshots. If I wanted snapshots for sending to other hosts, I would probably use a tool such as sysutils/sanoid, which is policy-driven solution for snapshot management and replication. For now, there […]

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r720

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This host has been retired. The services were distributed amongst r730-01 and r730-03. This host was often referred to as r720 or r720-01 (after r720-02 appeared on the scene) This replaces a previous post. I’ve been given a Dell PowerEdge 720. It contains: 6 x 400GB SAS SSDs – data01 zpool 2 x 100GB SAS SSDs – unused – I think this is da0 and da1 2 x 80GB SATA SSDs – zroot

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Migrating a Dell TL4000 to a new FreeBSD server and attaching it to a jail

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I recently migrated a bunch of jails from one server to another. Today I attached the Dell TL4000 tape library. A jail on this server copied Bacula backups from disk to tape. In this post: FreeBSD 12.0 Bacula 9.4.3 Dell R720 Investigation As anticipated, I needed to update the server configuration to cope with changed device numbers. The symptoms: when running the update slots command from within bconsole, I was getting this response.

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Migrating all your iocage jails to a new host

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In this post, I’m not exporting an iocage jail to another host. I am moving the entire iocage instance to another host. This is accomplished by doing a zfs export on the zpool, moving the drives to a new system, and doing a zfs import. The drive migration is covered in a previous post. In this post: FreeBSD iocage old host: R710 – r710-01 new host: R720 – r720-01 The first power The

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Migrating drives and the zpool from one host to another.

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Today is the day. Today I move a zpool from an R710 into an R720. The goal: all services on that zpool start running on the new host. Fortunately, that zpool is dedicated to jails, more or less. I have done some planning about this, including moving a poudriere on the R710 into a jail. Now it is almost noon on Saturday, I am sitting in the basement (just outside the server room),

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My plan for moving the R710 into the R720

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Today the drive caddies arrived for the R720. I refer to the services provided by the R710, not the server itself. I will list those services later and outline how I want to move them. I could do all this over this coming weekend but I have already allocated that time to some errands I have to catch up on. Physical things This section discusses the physical things which must move. Drives There

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Service names vs host names

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Over the years, I have learned not to rely on hostnames for important services. Hosts go away, new ones come in. I want to rely on, what I refer to as, service names. For example, instead of relying on a hostname for my ntp server, I have: $ host time time.int.unixathome.org has address 10.55.0.1 This hostname, or service name, appears in /etc/ntp.conf on every physical host in my network. time.int.unixathome.org is not a

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Preparing the Dell R720 for ZFS

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I have obtained a Dell R720 containing 10 x 400GB SSDs. The drives are connected to a RAID controller (H710P) which cannot do JBOD / IT mode. This means the drives are effectively hidden from ZFS, which is never good. In this post: FreeBSD 12.0 ZFS Dell R720 SAS 9207-8i This post describes past work and future plans for this server as I get it ready to be a general purpose server running

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Mount your ZFS datasets anywhere you want

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ZFS is very flexible about mountpoints, and there are many features available to provide great flexibility. When you create your second zpool this is what it might look like: $$ zfs list -r main_tank NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT main_tank 893G 3.52T 96K /main_tank main_tank/data 786G 3.52T 88K /main_tank/data main_tank/data/dvl 755G 3.52T 755G /main_tank/data/dvl main_tank/data/freshports 31.4G 3.52T 88K /main_tank/data/freshports main_tank/data/freshports/backend 3.11G 3.52T 88K /main_tank/data/freshports/backend This is a pool I created long ago, but

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slocum – the new

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This post has been replaced by a new one. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. This server was upgraded on Feb 2 2019. Only the storage persisted. Everything else was upgraded. The hardware M/B – Supermicro X9DRE-TF+ RAM – 128GB composed of 8x 16GB DDR3 1600Mhz 21300 ECC/REG CPU – 2x E5-2620v2 – Intel Six Core 2.10Ghz Xeon 15MB cache 7.2 GT/s QPI (80W) chassis – SC846E16-R1200B SAS9300-8i

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