This article will document the procedure to setup a second UFS filesystem on a second drive and have it added into your FreeBSD server. Installing a second drive into FreeBSD can be done line without a shutdown. The only reason […]
Resizing the boot drive on a FreeBSD server can seem a little daunting since that if the drive that FreeBSD is running on. This post will show that it is not that hard, if your FreeBSD server is a guest […]
Change block tracking allow tools to track what blocks in a virtual drive have changed over a period of time. This is very useful for backup software as it is able to backup just the delta changes instead of the […]
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.
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 pulling up a list of ports that are listening but […]
This artice shows how to extract all the certificates and key file from .pfx file using openssl and remove any password if required.
I currently run Octoprint on a Raspberry Pi that is hooked up to be 3D printer. This setup uses HAProxy to provider the web front end for the user. I am in the process of securing all my systems so […]
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 of certificate verification. This means that I have to map […]
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 the file, and then import it back in. This worked […]
This acticle will go through the install and configuration to use FreeBSD as your OpenVPN server and how to create the client config files.
