Category: filesystems

Build a bulletproof backup server with FreeBSD, ZFS, and jails. Complete guide covering encryption, security hardening, and multiple backup strategies for enterprise-grade data protection.

When a datacenter fire threatened 142 of my servers, my backup strategy had them back online in hours. This post shares my personal philosophy on creating a resilient system, focusing on the crucial planning that must happen before you write a single script.

A simple approach to prevent ZFS pools from getting stuck due to a lack of free space.

I share my experience migrating a client’s Windows BIOS VMs from Proxmox to FreeBSD/uefi, using bhyve and ZFS.

I share my experience migrating a client’s VMs from Proxmox to FreeBSD, using bhyve and ZFS.

Learn to automate ZFS snapshots using zfs-autobackup for effortless system protection and easy file recovery.

Experience a journey from Kubernetes to FreeBSD, achieving major cost savings and efficiency through real-world optimization.

ZFS checkpoints allow saving the entire state of a pool - including features and metadata - for reliable recovery. Here's how to use them on FreeBSD.

Comparative tests show FreeBSD's virtualization performance surpasses Proxmox, especially with NVMe drivers.

Explore the seamless migration of an old Linux server (1690 days uptime!) to a new FreeBSD machine, detailing the use of mfsBSD, BastilleBSD, Borg Backup, and bhyve for improved efficiency and manageability

Part 3 of our migration series details the complex process of moving servers from Proxmox to FreeBSD, including overcoming challenges with old hardware, problematic LXC containers, and fine-tuning virtual machines for optimal performance on bhyve.

Bhyve is great - and we’re using it with a lot of guest operating systems. One of my favourite Linux distributions is Alpine Linux - it’s great as a...

Some details on how we're performing backups and disaster recovery of the migrated servers.

More about this in the article I wrote to accompany my talk at EuroBSDCon 2024 . Please note: This article was (unexpectedly) quite popular and many...

Last update: 01 November 2022 - Alpine 3.16 has lxd packages in contrib Lxc is a great technology. I’ve been using it since 2012 and I’ve always...

Cephfs is a great tool. It enables users to store and share files while taking advantage of the granularity and performance of Ceph . One of the...

I'm using BTRFS with satisfaction (I mentioned it in 2014 and, more recently, in the IT-Notes blog ). I don't consider it optimal for all types of...

Sometimes containers log a lot of things, and the logfile can become huge. This happens because containers aren't supposed to run for a long time but...

I've been using BTRFS for years and have encountered few problems. Some of them are small and can be avoided with some smart improvements. The...