Posted on za 21 september 2024 in hardware
While I was away this summer, my wife complained that Internet connection stopped working. I had her switch to 5G, which was fine for a couple of days. On returning, I noticed that my fairly new Deciso Opnsense appliance stopped responding. As I was busy with other things at that …
Posted on za 21 september 2024 in runbsd
Yesterday I arrived in Dublin for EuroBSDCon. Experienced some interesting bits I did nog give a single thought about upfront. Like Ireland is in the EU, but not in Schengen: passport control. And renting a car without even considering that it might be one of those left hand drive countries …
Posted on vr 21 juni 2024 in communication
So I think I've sent mail using S/MIME signatures from both my personal and my business account for about ten years, come to think of it. As much as e-mail is only used in a small percentage of actual personal communications, no-one I communicated with has ever openly appreciated …
Posted on za 15 juni 2024 in mastodonnl
A couple of weeks ago I started pushing ZFS snapshots of the live database partition for mastodon.nl to my homelab. Testing that this is actually usable as a restore point for a postgres database was still on my todo list.
Today I found the time to setup an postgres …
Posted on zo 02 juni 2024 in mastodonnl
As I detailed a couple of months back, the mastodon media store is ZFS based and snapshots are pushed offsite multiple times a day. For the database servers, we used a daily SQL dump that was sent offsite. Good enough, but could be better.
Recently we had a small incident …