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Ok, I'm back up and running, thanks for the help. I managed to forget to backup /usr/local so I may be reinventing the wheel at some point in the future, but my system is now happily running 11.0-RELEASE, and the zpool is up and went through a scrub with no issues. Here's a cross-link to my...

Ok, all good as far as I can tell: I've updated the system and brought the pool back online. I booted off the install media, mounted a USB thumb drive, and copied /var, /etc and /home onto it. I also dumped some information on what I had installed (eg find /usr/bin -type f >...

Thank you! I need to figure out how to set up mount points for the live system; it looks like I can work with /tmp to make mount points there. That will let me mount the system disk to get various components off of it, and hopefully to mount the zpool to do a final refresh of my backups. I have...

Nutshell: Do I only need the *.eli files from /var/backups if the drive metadata has become mangled? That is, an undamaged geli-encrypted device shouldn't need its backup .eli file, yes? I recently managed to bork my system (only gets ~18 process IDs into boot before it segfaults attempting to...

Also: I'm presuming that I am going to ultimately need to reinstall the system from CD/DVD. If/when that happens, how much of the file system can I "keep in place" to minimize disruption? In particular, folders like /etc/. It's been a very long time since I've done an install from media, I can't...

Thank you, I was presuming that a live CD would be involved. Do you have any favored resources (links) that would detail this step-by-step? I'm fairly nervous at this point and from past experience I know that web searches on FreeBSD approaches can lead to outdated/deprecated instructions. A...

I'm in a bit of a tight spot here. A month ago I posted an issue where pkg upgrade left multiple packages non-functional. It was pointed out that 10.0 was end-of-life, so I waited until I had a quiet weekend to do a full upgrade. I had an opportunity today, so I attempted to simply...

I appear to have a similar problem, but the suggested solutions are not working for me. At the moment, both pkg and sudo are broken. The problems began during a "routine" pkg upgrade. I had updated from 9.1 to 10.0-RELEASE in August 2014, and have been running the system (and updating) without...

Wow, sorry, it looks like this thread fell off my radar! That's exactly what I needed to know. I've been moving (very) slowly on rotating out unlabeled devices with labeled ones. Slowly, because if I mess up an encrypted zpool I'll lose all the data. I also realized that without labels it would...

Sorry, I wasn't clear on what was transpiring. The order of events is: A disk in the pool (da2) dies hard, is offlined by system from pool I provision a ready-to-go cold spare (da10) with geli, and zpool replace it into the pool - Pool resilvers in a few hours and is now fully operational...

Nutshell: After replacing a dead disk with a new spare, the devices renumbered causing confusion, first in the human and then in FreeBSD. I now have my pool mounted in a degraded state, wondering where /dev/da10.eli is, and unwilling to accept /dev/da9.eli as the same device. Edit: Solution: I...

That is extremely useful information, thank you. I found more information regarding it at the ZFS Advanced Topics section of the handbook. Reading that, it implies that the parameter is only checked during pool creation? I am uncertain if adding a replacement drive to a pool would cause the...

Nutshell: I need to replace a geli-encrypted drive in my zpool. Looking at my setup notes, the geli devices in the pool are freebsd-zfs partitions, rather than 'raw' devices. Is that the correct approach? Details: My monitoring script alerted me to a problem in my zpool: pool: abyss state...

Ah, that does clean it up considerably - I just have one "orphaned" package listed, and I'm going to ignore that with -l '<'. Thank you!

I've been running happily with ports-mgmt/pkg for a while now, no major issues. I have a cron job that runs periodically and checks for outdated packages. I was surprised when I saw that the number of outdated packages was growing, even while running periodic pkg update. I just realized that my...

uname -a FreeBSD citadel 10.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Tue Jul 8 06:37:44 UTC 2014 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Well that was easy! I had put off doing this waiting for a full weekend to do the update. I was anticipating all sorts of...

Ok, thanks all. Today is going to be verifying that backups are current, and then I will start the freebsd-update process, targeting 10.0. In addition to: /home//etc//var/backups/[/file] ... and the zpool, any suggestions for other directories or files that should make it into a backup? Is...

I have become quite confused on the status of package management on FreeBSD. I am coming to the conclusion that this is not necessarily an atypical state of mind. I have spent a fair bit of time searching for information on the web, and from that have also decided that a lot of what I have found...

Hear, hear. There are many reasons that I decided to be "that guy at work that goes around trying to convince everyone to use ZFS." One of my biggest reasons is that it's FOSS, available on multiple free platforms, and completely implemented in software. This means that my zpool is simply the...

When I was starting to plan out the server I called WD tech support to see what advice they had for ZFS. 90% of the conversation was the tech person saying "Z what?", consulting with a similarly confused manager, and me trying to politely hang up. They are marketing to traditional RAID users...