Posted on August 14, 2023
| 2 minutes
| 291 words
| Stefano Marinelli
In the recently created FreeBSD VPS, the network performance of vnet-enabled jails was significantly lower compared to that of traditional jails. Upon investigation, it appears that there is an issue related to Virtio drivers.
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Posted on March 21, 2023
| 3 minutes
| 506 words
| Stefano Marinelli
RouterOS 6 is running great on bhyve. Unfortunately, things change when dealing with RouterOS 7. It doesn’t boot at all. Here’s how to solve.
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Posted on October 6, 2020
| 4 minutes
| 806 words
| Stefano Marinelli
Lxc containers are fast, small and useful. Proxmox Backup Server is quite slow with them, so here’s how to perform a fast and efficient backup using Borg.
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Posted on August 23, 2020
| 2 minutes
| 336 words
| Stefano Marinelli
Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) has been released. It’s still in beta but is already perfectly usable. After many years, it’s now possible to perform incremental backups of the VMs and thanks to the qemu dirty bitmaps, backups are also fast.
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Posted on June 29, 2020
| 2 minutes
| 307 words
| Stefano Marinelli
Cephfs is great. It can be used to store and share files and can take advantage of the granularity and performance of Ceph. Big amounts of data can be stored and live snapshots can be taken so remote backups can be easily performed.
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Posted on September 16, 2018
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| 308 words
| Stefano Marinelli
Sometimes servers can become unresponsive. Both physical and virtual, you may be unable to connect to them, especially when overloaded. So a watchdog can be a solution.
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