FreeBSD Home NAS, part 8: Backing up NFS and Samba data with restic

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FreeBSD Home NAS, part 8: Backing up NFS and Samba data with restic https://lobste.rs/s/ge1lq7 #freebsd #linux #unix
https://rtfm.co.ua/en/freebsd-home-nas-part-8-nfs-and-samba-data-backups-using-restic/

Secondary: "Tianve" - HP 250 G3
Kernel: 14.3-RELEASE-p7 amd64
Operating System: GhostBSD 25.02
LXQT Version: 2.3.0 (XFWM)
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Graphics Platform: X11

https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=102fa9b597

Wallpaper "Oiseau d'hiver" by @orbite

#GhostBSD #FreeBSD #RunBSD #LXQT #X11 #QT #screenshot #desktop #unix

Upgraded my secondary notebook "Tianve" to GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p7.

Removed Plasma 6.5.4 and switched to LXQT instead. All is well.

#RunBSD #GhostBSD #FreeBSD

FreeBSD crowd, what’s the lowest power device (in terms of Watts) made in the last few years that you’ve got FreeBSD successfully running on and with essential functionality like networking? #FreeBSD

Stress-eating fistfuls of mini peanut butter cups for some reason and installing #FreeBSD on my 28-core Xeon.

I bought a whole stack of 16GB NGFF SATA drives for this kind of OS swapping. Not a bad deal at $1 each.

Before this poll: were you aware of the search page?

#FreeBSD

Screenshot to follow.

📰 ** Information Briefing: **

✨ How to Configure X11 in a Simple Way
- Blogpost #Update: X11 configuration for #Freebsd
- Focus on simple, old-school programs
- Coverage: HighDPI, screensaver, XDM, GTK3

🔗 https://www.adalta.info/pdf/index.html?title=prstn_server_115856419584891079&lang=en
[ Verfügbar in 🇩🇪 (lang=de)//Available in 🇺🇸 (lang=en)//Disponible en 🇫🇷 (lang=fr) ]

#Server #Xserver #AISummary #Bot

Slightly updated my blogpost about X11 (again):
1) Add subsection about xlock to the "Screensaver" section with sample configuration involving xlock and xautolock usage.
2) Add subsection about how to properly start xdm — according to the documentation in the FreeBSD — the /etc/ttys should be changed, not the /etc/rc.conf.
3) In the "GTK3" subsection wrote about hack from ArchWiki to force GTK3 not to conform X server settings (I starting to think that this is impossible), but to display fonts and UI elements at least the same size like other toolkits — when the HighDPI display is in use.
4) Remove wrong line ("XTerm.vt100.selectToClipboard: true") from xterm X resources, so the mouse selection appears in the right clipboard and can be pasted with middle-click of mouse.

https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2025/07/24/x11-configuration-simple.html#fonts-size-tweak

#Xserver #FreeBSD

Did upgrade all the remaining service jails on our burningborad.net Mastodon instance to FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE today, after the host was already upgraded one and a half weeks ago.

Everything running smoothly :) Only nodejs in the mastodonweb jail needed some additional "convincing" and a deletion of the node_modules folder plus a fresh "yarn install --frozen-lockfile"

Now everything is up to date again 🙂

#freebsd #bastillebsd #jails #sysadmin #mastoadmin #upgrade #mastodon

Wizards can conjure entire realms using spells they learned from shared scrolls. #Samba #FreeBSD #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/samba-active-directory/?s=mc

• Pagination support added
• Sitemap support added
• SEO optimized
• LD+JSON support added

:freebsd: Hey Jo, you have successfully created #FreeBSD jails and migrated the services into those. Congratulations! But have you noticed you ran bsdinstall jail /jails/<all of those> without first creating a #ZFS dataset for those? ‘cause yeah, they are now all installed in their dedicated… subdirectory…

😱😱😱😱😱🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

It's 2026 and people still pass untrusted input to system(). #FreeBSD folks to the update mobile! https://www.security.land/freebsd-ipv6-flaw-enables-remote-code-execution-attacks/ #security

So I tried out #LinuxMint with the default Cinnamon Desktop for the last few days. It was quite nice. I would recommend it for those new to Linux. The desktop is sweet perfection, like #XFCE.

But sound did not work on my new laptop. Updating the kernel and found what seems like every possible bug with Linux Mint. Now I have no wireless AND no sound. For some reason, I can't get into the Grub boot menu to revert changes. Gone are the days when I can simply edit a text file for boot order and init.d startup. Searching forums and two days of debugging and reinstalling, trying to work with the #systemd and #initrd layers made me give it up. Seems like modularity between systems got tangled up like cold spaghetti in the fridge overnight.

#FreeBSD it is. #UNIX my old friend, you have always been loyal and true. At least I can fix what I break. Downloading now.

Just another painless 2 minutes update of my #mastodon server on #Freebsd

Moved a #FreeBSD jail between hosts for the first time today, and for bonus difficulty the hosts were different architectures (Intel > ARM) and it worked fine! Just needed to `pkg bootstrap -fy` and `pkg upgrade -fy` in it once on the new host in order to reinstall the right flavour packages (and re-create a Python venv which had a binary package in too)

Do you need to dynamically generate variables within Bastille templates? Check out this example, available in our upcoming release.

Bastillefile:
ARG PASSWORD=$(openssl rand -base64 15)
CMD echo ${PASSWORD}

> bastille template test test/test
[test]: Applying template: test/test...
[test]: NBRklaMV06dbqYLypurm
Template applied: test/test

#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD #automation

Ok, #Linux question: I would like to do some OS development on linux, but it is nowhere as easy as it is on #FreeBSD, because there's not a single source directory that builds everything. So what's the closest I can get to that? My ideal would would be to do "make ; make install" and have a new version of everything installed, although I mostly only care about the kernel and basic POSIX utilities (sh, stty, cat, mail, etc.).