{"id":475,"date":"2024-04-17T16:17:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T15:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netraam.nl\/ramblings\/?p=475"},"modified":"2024-04-17T17:26:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:26:29","slug":"running-hashbackup-on-freebsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netraam.nl\/ramblings\/running-hashbackup-on-freebsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Running HashBackup on FreeBSD"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of april 2024, developer Jim Wilcoxson of HashBackup sadly decided to stop making available a FreeBSD version of his great software. This suddenly left me with no operational backup system for the servers I administer, or rather, it left me with a big worry.<\/p>\n

After emailing him, Jim suggested I try running the Linux version on my FreeBSD servers. It had been a while since I needed Linux support on them, so I dug around a bit to find out how to do it again. It turned out to be pretty simple, and HashBackup seems to run fine again.<\/p>\n

Here are the steps (tested on FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE) to get Linux binary compatibility going, needed to run HashBackup:<\/p>\n

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  1. enable Linux compatibility: # sysrc linux_enable=”YES”<\/li>\n
  2. keep the system as clean as possible: # sysrc linux_mounts_enable=”NO”<\/li>\n
  3. install a base Linux system (this one is small and CentOS based): # pkg install linux_base-c7<\/li>\n
  4. fire it up: # service linux start<\/li>\n
  5. get the HashBackup binary: # fetch https:\/\/www.hashbackup.com\/download\/hb-linux-64bit.tar.gz<\/li>\n
  6. unpack it: # tar xvzf hb-linux-64bit.tar.gz<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s it! If you were already using HashBackup, don’t forget to replace the old hb binary with the new one you downloaded just now.<\/p>\n

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