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Archive for December, 2005

What RAID-1 solution should you use?

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Ever wondered if software RAID is faster/slower than hardware RAID? I’m going to find out.
It’s not complete, and I just thought of an extension, but What RAID-1 setup should I use for FreeBSD 6.0? is a work in progress.
The extention I mention is to compare i386 against amd64. I may do that if […]

New Bacula projects announced

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

The Bacula users and developers recently voted on 25 new projects to rank them in order of preference. The top five projects were:

Implement data encryption (as opposed to comm encryption)

Implement Migration that moves Jobs from one Pool to another.

Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files from Incremental/Differential backups

Implement a Bacula GUI/management tool using Python

Implement Base jobs

You […]

BSD Certification Group fund raising

Friday, December 9th, 2005

The BSD Certification Group Inc. has announced the launch of their first fund raising drive to assist in the startup costs for the upcoming BSDA exam. Take a moment of your time to Donate $10 to support BSD. While you’re at it, consider chipping in another $10 to your favourite BSD project’s donation page.