The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

#gpd
#micropc2
#freebsd
#church
#confirmation
#donations
#winter

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Using duplicity to back up your FreeBSD desktop

Backing up in modern times, we’ve had ZFS snapshots and replication to make this task extremely easy. However, you may not have access to another ZFS endpoint for replication, need to diversify risk by using a non-ZFS tool for backup, or are simply using UFS2, living the old skool life.

For these situations, my first recommendation is to

https://www.osnews.com/story/144890/using-duplicity-to-back-up-your-freebsd-desktop/

#FreeBSD

The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

#gpd
#micropc2
#freebsd
#ai
#visuallyimpaired
#worldhandhygieneday
#handhygiene
#cleanhandssavelives
#geopolitica
#petroleo

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Duplicating Your System: Using Duplicity to Back Up Your FreeBSD Desktop.

In this Q1 2026 FreeBSD Journal article, Jason Tubnor walks through a practical approach to backing up your FreeBSD system using duplicity, including encrypted backups, incremental chains, parity protection, and S3-compatible storage.

Read more:
https://bit.ly/4d5AR1v

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #ZFS #Backup #SystemsAdministration

So, who is using mdo on #FreeBSD?

mdo -- execute commands with specific credentials:

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mdo

Do any of you #FreeBSD folks know how to do memory manipulation/ injection along the lines of Linux’s devmem2?

https://github.com/ErcinDedeoglu/orangepi-6plus-cix-sky1-smmu-fix

https://github.com/radii/devmem2

I guess the 7“ #GPD #MicroPC2 which is only a little bit larger than a phone very likely is the smallest fully functional #FreeBSD device.

WIFI is working out of the box, graphics and touch screen as well. Built-in audio not yet, have to see what needs to be done.

Installing FreeBSD is easy, only the text console (vt) is turned 90 degrees. https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34221 probably would help here but when using Xorg or Wayland this isn’t a big deal.

#UMPC