Poor old zest.lemonia.org dropped off air, apparently with a dead CPU or motherboard. Its standby box,
juice.lemonia.org was brought up with 15 hour old data (the backup sync cron’d at 0300, the failure happened at ~1800), but not before attempting to stick one half of zest’s mirror into juice. The root fs at /dev/ad1s1a was fine, [...]
fsnap(1M) is most woo-esque for backing up filesystems, in a
snapshot filesystem
dump filesystem to tape
release snapshot
check dump
kind of manner.
It does, however, have problems with realtime priority processes. If the executable of such a process resides on the filesystem being snapshotted, things don’t work:
snapshot error: File system could not be write locked
Quick solution: [...]
The turbo on my VW Golf 1.9Tdi had become disappointingly non-functional. I could hear the exciting whizzing from the device as it spun up, but there was no boost. For a heavy car like a mark 4 Golf, this makes driving a pain, both around town and on long motorway inclines.
Getting the garage (who are [...]
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