Posted on January 24, 2022
| 9 minutes
| 1800 words
| Stefano Marinelli
We started a complex, continuous and not always linear operation, that is to migrate, where possible, most of the servers from Linux to FreeBSD. Here’s why.
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Posted on November 3, 2021
| 5 minutes
| 933 words
| Stefano Marinelli
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.
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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 September 21, 2020
| 3 minutes
| 431 words
| Stefano Marinelli
docker-compose allows you to define a set of containers in a single file. They will be in their “namespace” and can be linked and tied together.
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Posted on September 7, 2020
| 4 minutes
| 672 words
| Stefano Marinelli
What I’ll be describing now is another kind of setup, based on two containers, and it will help you to understand some of the features of Docker.
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Posted on August 31, 2020
| 2 minutes
| 378 words
| Stefano Marinelli
Docker has been a fundamental part of my setup for more than three years now. Day after day I tried to move as many services as possible to Docker and this was a very good move.
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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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