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A few days ago I had the need to access a VM disk to perform a file synchronization for a migration from a physical server to a virtual machine managed with Bhyve on FreeBSD. The disk configuration I use for the Bhyve hypervisor is based on ZFS rather than raw images which allows creating a … Read more
In a previous article I commented on the method for performing efficient backups using ZFS + compression + snapshots + rsync on FreeBSD. In this post I leave you a simplified version of one of the scripts I use to perform backups. With some modifications you can easily adapt it to your infrastructure obtaining the … Read more
What is the importance of a backup system? Everything. No infallible system exists, the datacenter provider can fail (do you remember the OVH fire?), the hardware of your dedicated server, a disastrous data manipulation by a user in the back office, an out-of-control synchronization process, a failed Magento update… so many and so many possible … Read more
Unfortunately, Hetzner removed official support for installing FreeBSD some time ago, but hopefully in the future they will include it again given the rising interest and growing support this great BSD-family OS is receiving. Fortunately, there are several options to install FreeBSD on Hetzner dedicated servers, which I use because of their advantageous pricing, especially … Read more