This post has been replaced by a newer one. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. Today I noticed this post is out of date. I like to keep this information around for each host, just in case it’s needed during a rescue mission. This is my primary developer server in […]
This is the Dell R730 host known as R730-03. This post has been replaced by a newer post. It replaces an earlier post. gpart zpool list zpool status File systems dmesg sesutil show jls
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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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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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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The vnet (network subsystem virtualization infrastructure) on FreeBSD is both a blessing and a curse. For me, it isn’t working well with IPv6. I’ve hit issues with pf (since solved, I’m sure). It’s a useful feature but can be confusing. It helps to have lots of time to think about it and what you’re doing.
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It’s good to do automated backups. When you do that, add monitoring to make sure the backups are occurring successfully. In my case, I backup using Bacula. Each job creates a new .bsr file. I copy these files to another location each day. Then I monitor the dates on those files and they should all
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The last time I did this inventory was 2018. It is time for a refresh. I have added comments to the output of the jls command. This is a brief description of what runs in each jail. Retired hosts slocum and r720-01 have been powered off after being merged into r730-01. r730-01 r730-01 is a
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Now that I’ve filled up data01, I bought some more SSDs and created another zpool. Today, on this snow-is-anticipated Saturday winter morning, I’m going to move some ZFS filesystems/datasets around. Side note: I like the term dataset better than filesystem. man zfs talks about datasets, which can be a file system, a volume, a snapshot,
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Over the past few days, I’ve posted a lot about transferring jails from two hosts into one host. One of the steps involves using zfs send | zfs recv to send the files from one host to another. I’m using syncoide for that transfer. A new fileystem’s recordsize defaults to 128K. In my case, that
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