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New server build – the parts list

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NOTES: All prices exclude taxes and shipping, unless otherwise specified. When a price indicates delivered, it includes delivery and taxes. All prices are in USD. Yes, it’s time to build a new server because my current backup server is running out of space. This server will be used for more than just backups. What else, I’m not sure, but the servers it will replace also does these tasks (sorted by my estimate order […]

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ezjail with freebsd-update

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I wrote this back in July 2013, but never published it. Might as well share it now. Lately, I’ve been moving away from tracking FreeeBSD STABLE and more towards using freebsd-update(8). Today, I’ll be setting up a jail, using ezjail and freebsd-update. ############## NOTE: Please read the comments before you read the article. ############## Installing Installing ezjail is straight forward: Installing the base jail My first attempt at creating a base jail failed:

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Munin

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This is an old post I wrote, but never published, back in 2010. I’ve started using Munin for some statistical monitoring. Using the hddtemp_smartctl plugin, I was getting some permission errors. After printing the output of the command, I noticed these in the logs: 2010/03/11-18:30:05 [60845] [ERROR] Command /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -A /dev/ad8 on drive ad8 failed: 256. The plugin needs to have read permission on all monitored devices. smartctl 5.39 2009-12-09 r2995 [FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE

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What I would do differently when upgrading from 9.3 to 10.1

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Last night I upgraded the main jail server in my lab from FreeBSD 9.3 to FreeBSD 10.1. I just started using the term, home lab, after discovering http://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/. That server contains, amongst other things, these jails: my development environment for http://dev.freshports.org/ my in house webserver, which hosts the above mentioned website my svn repo an installation of ElasticSearch and Kibana (ELK) an Nginx for web proxy 21 instances of Bacula for tutorial sessions

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system/bootenv/default/var does not contain /var

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Much like the system/bootenv/default/usr does not contain /usr issue I recently wrote about, I found the same issue with system/bootenv/default/var For this post, I have booted my FreeBSD 9.3 system from mfsBSD thumb drive. I will import the pool, but not mount it. # zpool import -N system I mounted the filesystem in question, and confirm that there is just one ZFS thing mounted: # mount -t zfs system/bootenv/default/var /mnt # mount -t

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Modifying a ZFS root system to a beadm layout

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Today I sat down to install some packages on a server I just configured for Ansible and iocage. I failed. My poudriere host runs FreeBSD 9.3 and can build for older version of FreeBSD but not newer versions. Solution: upgrade that host. I will be using beadm to allow me to keep my existing 9.3 and create a new 10.1 on the same host. I will be able to switch between the two

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slocum

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This post has been replaced by a newer one. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. This system was recently converted to a beadm layout. For future reference, this is the slocum server, which I use for various jails and services. The filesystems, well, some of them: And dmesg:

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Please give me your LTO-4 or better tape library

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I’ve been a contributor to the Bacula project since 2004 (about 10 years). My contributions have mostly in the PostgreSQL backend, regression testing, maintainer of the FreeBSD ports, and how-to guides and blog entries. My current tape library is a donated SDLT 220 unit and I am looking to upgrade it. Can I have your LTO-4/5/6 tape library please? I’m asking for a donation but I’m also being choosy. Space and power considerations

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zfs send | zfs receive as non-root

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In this post, I am using FreeBSD 9.3 but what I do here should have wide application, especially the errors I encounter. I believe in backups. Not just rsync, but multiple copies and in multiple places. RAID is not a backup. rsync is not a backup. The goal of this post is to send a copy of a ZFS filesystem to a remote server. The server in question is already backed up in

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