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Linux Network

Is it just me or are meters broken in nftables

iif eth0 tcp dport { smtp, 587 } ct state new counter meter smtp-meter { ip saddr limit rate over 6/hour burst 3 packets } nftrace set 0 counter drop

This rule was working for a long time. One month ago it stopped working. Now it never drops any packets.

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Backup Linux

It is hard to do crash consistent bare metal recovery backups for Linux

Bacula, Urbackup and Proxmox backup server dont do bare metal recovery backups for Linux. Veeam can do it, but the kernel developers break the Veeam kernel module for every new version of the kernel. I now have trouble to make fedora stay on 5.16 kernel it always wants remove that version and replace it with 5.17. 5.16 is the last version that Veeam linux agent works with. Nakivo copied the entire disk when doing backup. I was only using 30GB but it always copied 600GB. Some idiots suggest you use dd. Then i would have to make a 600GB file for every backup. And the backup would not be consistent.