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Dan Langille’s Other Diary He has another, more popular, diary. This one is more general. Home Dan Langille’s Other Diary He has another, more popular, diary. This one is more general.Home PGCon – keynote… made your travel bookings yet? Xorg.0.log for my RadeonHD Copying an existing jail to try bind918 Leave a Comment / DNS , FreeBSD , Jails , named , Open Source / By Dan Langille / February 29, 2024 bind916 will be EOL in a few months (April 2024). In this post, I’m going to copy an existing jail (running bind916) and configure it to run the new bind. If all goes well, the new jail will replace the old jail. This has an added benefit of effectively renaming the old jail (toiler) to […] Copying an existing jail to try bind918 Read More » Moving local settings for pg_hba.conf and postgresql.conf out of PGDATA 2 Comments / FreeBSD , Open Source , PostgreSQL / By Dan Langille / February 18, 2024 / PostgreSQL One of the configuration aspects of FreeBSD I have long liked is the concept of default values which are overridden by the user. For example, /etc/defaults/rc.conf (see The /etc directory). The default values in this file can be overridden by the user with their preferred values in /etc/rc.conf (or /etc/rc.conf.local, and other locations if you Moving local settings for pg_hba.conf and postgresql.conf out of PGDATA Read More » Adding a new user to my Time Capsule – on ZFS with Samba Leave a Comment / Apple , ZFS / By Dan Langille / February 16, 2024 I have another laptop I want to backup using my Time Capsule jail. Here are the step I used. Create a Unix User I have no idea if I need to do this. But I did. But now, I’m thinking, it is not required, at all. But read on, I think I’ll show you where Adding a new user to my Time Capsule – on ZFS with Samba Read More » OK, we got a Time Machine on ZFS on FreeBSD. So what. Can we restore from it? Leave a Comment / Apple , samba , ZFS / By Dan Langille / February 16, 2024 I have written recently about creating a ZFS-based Time Machine on FreeBSD. Yesterday, I did my first restore from this instance. Surprise. It worked. Please move along. Nothing to see here. Just photos. The motivation: I’m replacing one MacBook with another. Some details here on Twitter. Edit – 2024-02-22 After I messed up when renaming OK, we got a Time Machine on ZFS on FreeBSD. So what. Can we restore from it? Read More » r730-03 Leave a Comment / DELL , hardware , R730 / By Dan Langille / February 2, 2024 This is the Dell R730 host known as r730-03. It replaces an earlier post. This new post was created because I added two more 12T drives. gpart zpool list zpool status File systems dmesg sesutil show jls r730-03 Read More » r730-01 Leave a Comment / DELL , hardware , R730 / By Dan Langille / February 2, 2024 This is the Dell R730 host known as r730-01. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. A few days ago, this host had a change in CPU and RAM. This is my primary developer server in my basement. gpart zpool list zpool status zfs list dmesg sesutil show jls r730-01 Read More » Using powerd++ to reduce power consumption on a Dell R730 Leave a Comment / DELL , hardware , R730 / By Dan Langille / January 29, 2024 Yesterday, I changed CPUs in my main server. That server builds packages, is the database server for dev, test, and stage freshports, amongst other things. It is a generalized server. In this post: FreeBSD 14.0 powerdxx-0.4.4_1 Dell R730 2x E5-2699 v3 CPUs As folks started reading my tweets, crest pointed out that powerd++ may help. Using powerd++ to reduce power consumption on a Dell R730 Read More » Spreading thermal paste – replacing Dell R730 CPUs Leave a Comment / DELL , hardware , R730 / By Dan Langille / January 29, 2024 On Sunday, I replaced the CPUs in r730-01 with something quite a bit more powerful. I have been thinking about doing this since before this September blog post: Can I really swap CPU and RAM between my Dell R730 servers? The answer was: Yes, I can. See also the next post: Using powerd++ to reduce Spreading thermal paste – replacing Dell R730 CPUs Read More » r730-03 Leave a Comment / DELL , hardware , R730 / By Dan Langille / January 27, 2024 This post has been replaced by a newer post. This is the Dell R730 host known as r730-03. It replaces an earlier post. This new post was created because I added two more 12T drives. gpart zpool list zpool status File systems dmesg sesutil show jls r730-03 Read More » Adding another pair of drives to a zpool mirror on FreeBSD 1 Comment / DELL , Disks , FreeBSD , General , hardware , Open Source , R730 / By Dan Langille / January 27, 2024 Today, I’m ready to adding two recently obtained 12T spinning disks to r730-03. This host is the work-horse which houses all the main backups and database regression testing. It also hosts my newly-created but not yet-functional graylog jail. I will be following a previous post about adding drives because I don’t want to remember these Adding another pair of drives to a zpool mirror on FreeBSD Read More » Post pagination 1 2 … 94 Next → Search Search Like what I do? As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Want a good read? Please try: FreeBSD Mastery: Jails (IT Mastery Book 15) I really like this monitor light (see it on Twitter ). Buy it on amazon . 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