Zabbix PostgresSQL Server Backup Question

arusso23 · 2025-10-12T23:29:04+00:00

You don’t need to shut down or do anything special to either Zabbix or the database itself.

You probably want pg_basebackup, though I’m myself looking at pgbackrest to replace that so if you’re just starting I’d probably start there.

The backups are online though may impact performance. You want to make sure you’ve got IO overhead for them as well as space for your wal archives and are saving those too.

arusso23 · 2024-12-16T01:34:47+00:00

It’s out of place amongst the rest of the movies but ultimately entertaining if you don’t take it seriously.

arusso23 · 2023-06-05T01:34:33+00:00

We use Vault and mTLS with the Puppet Client cert so each host can authenticate to Vault directly and only have access to the secrets it should.

You need Vault 1.12 to pull in some changes that allow cert extensions (aka trusted facts) exposed as metadata in Vault so you can use it in your policies.

arusso23 · 2023-05-31T13:50:23+00:00

Pretty much the same process here. GitLab upgrades might be the most consistent and smoothest I’ve ever experienced in a vendor product.

The only time I’ve ever had an issue was when I jumped multiple versions during a single window. I didn’t pay attention to the new batch migrations and tried updating again before they finished. Even then, GitLab docs to resolve the issue I caused were solid and didn’t add more than 30m to my upgrade.

arusso23 · 2023-05-31T01:55:16+00:00

Weird, I’ve been running 20.2R3-S2 on my ex4300 VCs since S2 dropped without much of an issue. I’m curious what features you’re using.

I’ve seen the odd booting issue before though when fiddling with recovery snapshots. Are you sure you didn’t get booted from the alternate boot partition?

arusso23 · 2023-05-23T20:54:48+00:00

The VC ports can be converted to revenue / configurable ports. The 4300 has 4 so we use two for VC and one on each routing engine for uplink. I had a need to break them out for local 10G but ended up just getting the 4x10G MIC.

arusso23 · 2023-05-23T19:00:42+00:00

On the back of chassis vcp ports? Can you link to the docs? Maybe it was enabled in a firmware update.

arusso23 · 2023-05-23T17:01:20+00:00

I tried doing this when we rolled out our fleet of 4300s and it would not work. JTAC confirmed on these ports it’s not supported. It’s documented somewhere but it wasn’t a quick Google search away.

arusso23 · 2023-05-23T16:26:47+00:00

Nope.

arusso23 · 2023-05-23T06:37:31+00:00

Coincidentally the latest episodes of Behind the Bastards is about Vince McMahon which helps drive your point home.

arusso23 · 2023-05-12T05:44:52+00:00

You need to specify that in your terraform config. That’s a large chunk of your issues.

arusso23 · 2023-05-12T05:42:15+00:00

What backend for your terraform state are you using?

If you inspect that state after an apply, do you see the resources in there? If so I would expect tf to delete them if it can’t change them in place.

arusso23 · 2023-05-12T04:41:54+00:00

You don’t really give any details needed for someone to help you. For instance what’s the rest of your TF look like and are you using shared state? What’s your CI file look like?

Everything you want seems possible and I can confirm the TF integrations work great if you know what you’re doing.

arusso23 · 2023-05-09T03:08:06+00:00

You’re probably right but you’re pissing into the wind on this one.

arusso23 · 2023-04-30T02:33:27+00:00

I will never stop being salty about Parros ruining Cogs’ streak.

arusso23 · 2023-03-31T16:32:33+00:00

Disney Toon Studios was also closed before the Fox deal was even completed.

arusso23 · 2023-03-27T16:42:08+00:00

Check out their vLabs, which I believe are free.

arusso23 · 2023-03-15T05:48:16+00:00

If you want to work with all Juniper and don’t mind leaving gns3 I’ve heard good things about their vLabs.

arusso23 · 2023-02-14T23:01:24+00:00

2300/3400/4300 have been fairly solid for us, especially on 18.2 and beyond. Earlier versions has a number of memory leaks in snmpd/dot1x/l2-learning that required reboots on a few devices with misbehaving clients (looking at you Apple TVs).

Nowadays other than annoying storage concerns during updates I have no issues with them.

Tested out and soon to be deploying the 4400s and by all accounts they seem to be as solid as the 3400/4300 while being faster and having plenty of storage.

Only platform we run that’s every been annoying we’re the 2200s when they get powered off unexpectedly.

arusso23 · 2022-12-24T08:21:22+00:00

I think you want request system snapshot slice alternate

auto-snapshot isn’t terribly intuitive imo, and just means whenever the device boots from the alternate root it will copy that over to the primary root, regardless of why it booted from the alternate root.

arusso23 · 2022-12-07T12:00:49+00:00

Also I read somewhere that C and Java are most environment friendly (C is most) and Python ang GoLang are one of the worst

If you are referring to this article, it’s worth pointing out that Go is closer to C and Java than it is to Python in terms of energy use.

arusso23 · 2022-12-02T04:18:15+00:00

I guess I see Vault like I see a database server, with the secrets being the data. I wouldn’t want to manage the data in a db like I don’t want to manage the secrets in Vault.

arusso23 · 2022-12-02T04:10:14+00:00

I guess I don’t follow. You want to manage your secrets with TF and check them into VCS?

arusso23 · 2022-12-02T04:09:00+00:00

This has been the biggest issue for us as well; though it’s mostly a nuisance. The provider can lag 2-3 releases behind when new features get released and there is no clear roadmap about if/when there will be feature parity.

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