Bacula on FreeBSD (part 1 PostgresSQL in a jail)

August 6, 2017 9 minute read

I do take backups; my current solution are couple of shell script wrapper around dump/zfs send/btrfs send/rsync which is a mess. So decided give bacula a try

I use ezjail to manage my FreeBSD jails. PostgresSQL is my favorite database and will use this database as the backend for bacula and will use this database as the backend for bacula. I want to move all my databases to 1 FreeBSD jail this should make the easier to create reliable database backup in the further. For this reason we’ll setup 2 FreeBSD jails 1 for the database and 1 for bacula.

You’ll find my journey of installing PostgreSQL on a FreeBSD jail. In another blog post we will continue with the installation of bacula.

Install Parabola GNU/Linux on an Encrypted btrfs logical volume

May 25, 2017 14 minute read

I finally found time to complete the installation of my Libreboot laptop

I decided to give Parabola GNU/Linux a try as my daily driver to get a fully Free Software Laptop/tablet.

Download the Parabola GNU/Linux iso and boot it

After Parabola GNU/Linux is booted verify that you have internet access if the network card is support and dhcp is enabled on you network you should get a network address.

How to install libreboot on a ThinkPad X60

February 11, 2017 13 minute read

 
I got a ThinkPad x60 (tablet version) from ebay.be to install libreboot on it.
 
I tried to compile libreboot on Debian and Parabola GNU/Linux but both failed, compling Libreboot on Trisquel 7 works fine so I’ll use Trisquel to replace the BIOS with libreboot.
 
I’m not sure that I’ll use Trisquel 7 as my daily driver since it is a bit outdated… I might go with Debian Strech without the non-free repositories to get a fully Free Software Laptop/tablet. I’ll need to replace the Intel wifi adapter since this requires non-free firmware.
 
You’ll find a small howto install libreboot on a Thinkpad X60 below.
 

Build Libreboot

The latest version of libreboot isn’t available via a binary distribution so I decided to build it from source.

Best Wishes 2017!

January 1, 2017 less than 1 minute read

** Best Wishes 2017! **

Install Arch on an encrypted btrfs partition

August 30, 2016 13 minute read

I’m preparing to move my workstation to arch linux Before I’ll install it on my physical workstation I did the installation on a virtual machine. I’ll use btrfs as the filesystem during the installation. btrfs is a nice filesystem but it had some serious dataloss issue with RAID5/RAID6 recently.

btrfs might not stable enough for a production environment but it has some nice features like snapshots, send/recieve, compression etc. I use zfs for my important date anyway.