FreeBSD - assign OVH failover IPs to FreeBSD Jails
Sometimes you want (or need) to assign a public OVH failover IP address to a FreeBSD jail but there’s not much documentation on how to do it inside a jail.
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FreeBSD, Raspberry PI - problems booting with USB powered hub connected
Raspberry PI i4 s a great platform for FreeBSD but if u-boot detects there's a powered hub, the boot seems to go crazy. It isn’t even able to recognize the SD partitions. The result is that the Rpi4 won’t boot and start loop.
FreeBSD on Raspberry PI - enable and use Watchdog
Watchdog devices are important to be sure our servers are working. Unfortunately, watchdog daemon seem to crash if enabled on Rasbperry PI. The problem is that our Pis have a strange watchdog hardware
Alpine Linux and LXD perfect setup on BTRFS file system
Alpine Linux and lxd are perfect together, especially if combined with a good file system. Let’s see how to install them on a btrfs file system.
Efficient backup of lxc containers in Proxmox
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.