Nick Cave -- My personal datacenter

When I went to new york 2 summers ago I took a mac mini and a pair of 14T disks, which had a sort pile of pictures, my music library and which backed up my laptop. At home it still does the backups. Recently I came apon a 2013 24 core mac pro with 64G of memory and 1T of internal ssd. With that kind of processing I can actually run vms as well as getting my backups served. So we are retiring Costello and building out Nick.

Start by installing debian trixie from a usb stick. This worked flawlessly. Once you have that baseline set up the stuff we use.

apt update
# DONT MODERNIZE THE LIST TRIXIE TRASHES IT
apt install sudo nano wget curl
apt install avahi-daemon
apt install avahi-daemon avahi-utils
apt install libnss-mdns
apt install htop
apt install openssh-server
apt install ca-certificates
apt install gpg
apt install sudo
apt install parted
apt install htop
apt install bridge-utils

Install the zfs stuff.

nano /etc/apt/sources.list
apt update
apt install zfs-dkms
apt install zfsutils-linux
modprobe zfs
zfs list
apt -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false update
apt policy linux-headers-*
apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
apt install --reinstall zfsutils-linux
zpool import
zpool import -f tank
zpool import -f local
zpool import -f reddisk
zpool clear tank ; zpool clear reddisk ; zpool status -v

replace the bad disk and replace the bad zfs partitions

sgdisk --replicate=/dev/sde /dev/sdb
sgdisk -G /dev/sde
ls -ls /dev/disk/by-id|grep sde
zpool status tank
zpool replace tank -o ashift=12 ata-ST12000NM000J-2TY103_ZRT0GC3A-part3 ata-WDC_WD120EFBX-68B0EN0_D7JVX9MN-part3
zpool replace reddisk -o ashift=12 9814339977262587103 ata-WDC_WD120EFBX-68B0EN0_D7JVX9MN-part4

Install netatalk

wget https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/releases/download/netatalk-4-0-0/netatalk_4.0.0.ds-1_amd64.deb
dpkg --install ./netatalk_4.0.0.ds-1_amd64.deb
apt install avahi-daemon
apt --fix-broken install
apt install avahi-daemon avahi-utils
apt install libnss-mdns
systemctl status avahi-daemon
nano /etc/netatalk/afp.conf
systemctl restart netatalk
systemctl status netatalk

Add personal keys to ssh authorized keys.

nano .ssh/authorized_keys
cp .ssh/authorized_keys ~feurig/.ssh/authorized_keys
chown -R feurig:feurig ~feurig/.ssh

attempt to use tbolt 2 enclosure.

apt update
apt install thunderbolt-tools

apt install bolt
boltctl
boltctl list
boltctl enroll
boltctl enroll 00000000-0000-0018-80fa-1c134c238952
boltctl list
fdisk -l
boltctl info 00000000-0000-0018-80fa-1c134c238952
boltctl list
boltctl list --all

FAIL

Move on to initial incus fail. Newest incus creates a bridge and expects it to be there.

reboot
fdisk -l
nano .ssh/authorized_keys
apt install incus incus-tools qemu-system
curl  -fsSL https://pkgs.zabbly.com/key.asc -o /etc/apt/keyrings/zabbly.asc
sh -c 'cat <<EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zabbly-incus-stable.sources
Enabled: yes
Types: deb
URIs: https://pkgs.zabbly.com/incus/stable
Suites: $(. /etc/os-release && echo ${VERSION_CODENAME})
Components: main
Architectures: $(dpkg --print-architecture)
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/zabbly.asc
EOF'
apt update
apt install incus
systemctl start incus
incus admin init
incus --version

At this point incus was foobarred and had set up a default lxdbr0 and was not the way we like things. So we....

Delete the lxd bridge and set up the normal bridge.

ip link set incusbr0 down
ip link delete incusbr0
cat > /etc/network/interfaces<<EOD
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug enp11s0
iface enp11s0 inet dhcp
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
     address 192.168.129.189
     network 192.168.128.0
     netmask 255.255.128.0
     broadcast 192.168.255.255
     gateway 192.168.128.1
     mtu 9000
     bridge_ports enp12s0
     bridge_stp off       # disable Spanning Tree Protocol
        bridge_waitport 0    # no delay before a port becomes available
        bridge_fd 0          # no forwarding delay
EOD
systemctl restart networking

reinstall incus (purge doesnt work correctly here)

apt purge incus
apt install incus
incus admin init
incus profile edit default
incus profile show default
incus init ubuntu/focal -c limits.cpu=4 -c limits.memory=8GiB -d root,size=20GiB --vm gru
incus init images:ubuntu/focal -c limits.cpu=4 -c limits.memory=8GiB -d root,size=20GiB --vm gru
incus profile show default
incus profile edit default
incus init images:ubuntu/focal -c limits.cpu=4 -c limits.memory=8GiB -d root,size=20GiB --vm gru
incus start gru
incus init images:ubuntu/focal -c limits.cpu=4 -c limits.memory=8GiB -d root,size=20GiB --vm minion1
incus start minion1
ip link set incusbr0 down
ip link delete incusbr0
nano /etc/resolv.conf

So since we have a hot swappable disk container (usb3 since the tbolt is worthless) we wanna mount apfs volumes that we find in our disk collection.

apt install apfs-dkms --fix-missing