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I'm doing research on old libraries for Unix-like systems, and am specifically interested (at the moment anyways ^^') in the evolution of POSIX threads on Linux in the early 2000s. I've discovered that the compiled object files for the "Next Generation POSIX Threads" library lives on the old...

I recently got into LTO tape for long-term media archival, and did a write-up on my experiences with the intention of sharing it here for everyone's benefit. However, having stashed the tapes away in storage, I promptly forgot all about it for almost a year, only to rediscover it today. 😅 I hope...

I'm working on a system which I'd like to: Act as an enterprise-wide proxy with thousands of concurrent users. Log sites accessed by users/machines along with times and HTTP response codes (at a minimum.) Update a local archive.org style archive in a space-efficient manner, wherein subsequent...

Hey Geniuses, I am wondering if anyone knows if ezjail-admin's archive feature that tar.gz's /usr/jails/[ezjailname] does more than just tar.gz it? I am having difficulties archiving and restoring without pax errors (part 2, etc) which are beyond 2GB (I don't have an ezjail-admin archive in...

I can't install clamav antivirus owing to arc and arcanist-php (for mattermost) conflict. Kindly advise pkg-static: arc-5.21p conflicts with arcanist-php73-20210113 (installs files into the same place). Problematic file: /usr/local/bin/arc

For some personal interest reasons, I attempted to install FreeBSD 8 in a VM. When I try to pkg update it, it says http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:8:amd64/latest/ is 404ed. pkg.freebsd.org homepage listed versions 8 and 9, but all mirrors of them give me a 404. And http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org...

In the past I had successfully used Mailpiler with some patches, unfortunately the developer has decided to focus exclusively on Linux and introduce explicitly BSD-incompatible changes. Also, no support is given should you somehow make it work. Therefore, I'd like to ask around if someone has...

Hello, I run three jails on a FreeBSD 11-release host, and manage them with ezjail. One of the jails generates an error when attempting to archive it. ezjail-admin stop reminder ezjail-admin archive reminder pax: Access/modification time set failed on: ./var/empty <Operation not permitted>...

Morning all, I currently have a little over a decade of personal emails (~7GB), these are all tucked away in yearly folders that are stored on the server and generally sync'd to each device I sync email to. I'm looking at moving email provider and thought it would be a good time to move these...

Hi, Just wondering what is a common, durable, reliable media for backups. Do people keep hard drives in the closet that work forever, or is optical media better... Tape storage? Is a pen-drive good for long term? Are Cd's better than DVD's or vice-versa? I have several music cd's that...