UNIX, Security, and Privacy

Setting up Telegraf

 https://cryptomonkeys.com/2020/08/setting-up-telegraf/ 2020-08-15

Telegraf1 is an agent that is capable of collecting various metrics and exporting them to various storage backends.

Graphite and FreeNAS

 https://cryptomonkeys.com/2020/08/graphite-and-freenas/ 2020-08-01

If you want to export your FreeNAS1 reporting information to some kind of monitor/collector, graphite is how its done.

Setting up InfluxDB

 https://cryptomonkeys.com/2020/07/setting-up-influxdb/ 2020-07-29

Time Series1 databases are all the rage right now.

Fixing corrupted Time Machine backups

 https://cryptomonkeys.com/2020/06/corrupted-time-machine/ 2020-06-16

Corrupted TimeMachine backups are annoying. There frequently isn’t any actual problem with the data, just that TimeMachine doesn’t know how to access.

rsync cloning (don't do this)

 https://cryptomonkeys.com/2019/11/rsync-cloning/ 2019-11-18

This is a really terrible way of cloning one box to another.

Replicating ZFS to FreeNAS

 https://cryptomonkeys.com/2019/07/replicating-zfs-to-freenas/ 2019-07-20

There are plenty of articles that discuss how to handle FreeNAS to FreeNAS replication, its even covered in the FreeNAS documentation (thank you iX Systems for both automatic and manual setups.

Juniper SRX and Cisco ASA

 https://cryptomonkeys.com/2019/02/juniper-srx-cisco-asa/ 2019-02-19

In all the vendor documentation I find, examples for setting up IPSec tunnels use some of the worst encryption possible.