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ZFS Bare Metal Restore

FreeBSD Articles / December 10, 2018

This article documents the procedure to do a full bare metal restore of a FreeBSD ZFS system that has been backed up with ZFS send.

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Using sockstat to look at open ports in FreeBSD

FreeBSD Articles / November 14, 2018

If you need to know what ports are open and listening on your FreeBSD servers, you can use a few commands. Netstat -An used to me my goto command for

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Convert Certificates from PFX to PEM

FreeBSD Articles / November 14, 2018

This artice shows how to extract all the certificates and key file from .pfx file using openssl and remove any password if required.

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Let’s Encrypt Certificate – Synology NAS Howto

FreeBSD Articles / March 10, 2018

I own a Synology NAS and it now supports the free certificates from Let’s Encrypt. The only problem with Synology’s implimentation is that they only allow the web (HTTP-01) method

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MySQL: Search and Replace

FreeBSD Articles, General Unix Articles / February 1, 2018

There are a number of times when I have had to change one string to another in a MySQL table. In the past I would do a MySQL dump, edit

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Setup OpenVPN on FreeBSD 12.1

FreeBSD Articles / October 25, 2016

This acticle will go through the install and configuration to use FreeBSD as your OpenVPN server and how to create the client config files.

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Adding a Second Drive

FreeBSD Articles / October 25, 2016

This article documents how to add a second drive to your FreeBSD system and format it as UFS. If you have a system that allows hot-plugging (like the Dell line

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