Does anyone know how I can "migrate" a set of ZFS disks to a freshly installed OS? My 20.04 server is fucking up completely and I want to reinstall everything

The FS works

And all disks are labelled 0 to 3

just data?

you use the zfs import command

I feel like I usually just do zfs import poolname

I'm a terrible person and usually use /dev/sdx

Wait, I'll show you what I have

  pool: data
 state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0B in 0 days 18:55:39 with 0 errors on Sun Apr 14 19:19:40 2024
config:

	NAME                        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
	data                        ONLINE       0     0     0
	  mirror-0                  ONLINE       0     0     0
	    pci-0000:00:17.0-ata-1  ONLINE       0     0     0
	    pci-0000:00:17.0-ata-2  ONLINE       0     0     0
	  mirror-1                  ONLINE       0     0     0
	    pci-0000:00:17.0-ata-3  ONLINE       0     0     0

I'm using disk/by-path

As far as I understand, by-path should be the same as long as the disks remain in the same physical path

that's why it's useful to use by-id... it won't change as long as you don't have a masochistic idea to change it by hand for some strange reason

I remember that the arch wiki at the time recommended by-path

Okay, so I tried it all in a VM

export the zpool, then reinstall the os, then import the zpool

should work

ugh, I need to back up some stuff first

For some reason transmission no longer works on my server after I attempted to upgrade to 24.04

It just can not connect to any peers

It connects to the tracker

I get 1656 peers

But none of them ever connect to me

[2024-04-29 20:26:01.056] dbg ubuntu-24.04-desktop-amd64.iso verifying torrent... (verify.cc:77)
[2024-04-29 20:26:01.056] dbg ubuntu-24.04-desktop-amd64.iso Verification is done. It took 0 seconds to verify 6114656256 bytes (6114656256 bytes per second) (verify.cc:169)
[2024-04-29 20:26:01.056] dbg ubuntu-24.04-desktop-amd64.iso at torrent.ubuntu.com:443 unexpected key 'name' str 'ubuntu-24.04-desktop-amd64.iso' (announcer-http.cc:644)
[2024-04-29 20:26:01.056] dbg ubuntu-24.04-desktop-amd64.iso at torrent.ubuntu.com:443 peer counts: 1656 seeders, 135 leechers. (announcer.cc:690)

And before you ask, my port is forwarded correctly

how is the firewall?

I've read bad things about 24.04, and the recommendation is to either install fresh (no upgrade), or wait

iptables -S just says

-P INPUT ACCEPT
-P FORWARD ACCEPT
-P OUTPUT ACCEPT
-N f2b-sshd
-A INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports 22 -j f2b-sshd
-A f2b-sshd -s 71.30.20.198/32 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
...

So it's just ACCEPT on everything except SSHD which has a ton of F2B rules

@ThoriumBR I would stay on 20.04 if Transmission was fucking working

It's not the ISP either since I can download torrents just fine on my desktop

maybe try qbitorrent or deluge...

I refuse to give up

2 AM: where can I buy more bullets at this time?

my kids are always missing their assignments because they obviously don't read their schedules... I have a spare kindle pw1 that was catching dust somewhere and I turned it on a schedule display glued to the wall

asking them to enter the appointments on a sqlite database would be too much, so I created an account on mailsac (they have a nice API to get emails, you have 1500 API calls/month for free) and I told them how to format the subject to be parsed later

my vps calls mailsac api 4 times a day (no need to be realtime) and kindle access a special page on the vps every 60 minutes (to stop kindle from sleeping). it's working fine for 3 days

battery drain is way higher than expected, I believe the "experimental browser" is the issue. I will try later to generate an image server-side, and maybe have curl download it and show it... no browser needed.

but if I need to keep kindle plugged in, so be it. I just hope they manage to keep their schedules updated and follow it...