With all the databases I run, I need a daily sanity check. I download a copy of each database and do a test load on my system at home. Today I timed that process:
$ time ~/bin/backup-supernews.sh
…
real 77m57.323s
user 12m52.610s
sys 0m56.136s
There are 11 such databases. […]

I’ve been running ads on my websites since early 1999, so nearly 10 years. It was roughly May 2002 that I started using phpPgAds. This was the PostgreSQL version of phpAdsNew. This project became OpenAds and is now known as OpenX.
Recently I decided to upgrade to the latest version of OpenX. […]

I have several items I would like to complete in the short term. Writing them down may help me commit to doing them.
To Do

Upgrade the NYI server to the latest version of PostgreSQL
Prepare the BSDCan and PGCon websites for 2009 (partly done)
Get MacPorts running on my MacBook
Get spamd running on the new server
Add a […]

Tonight I encountered this problem when starting stunnel:

2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG7[43534:134656000]: Private key loaded
2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG7[43534:134656000]: SSL context initialized for service 6000
2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG5[43534:134656000]: stunnel 4.25 on i386-portbld-freebsd6.3 with OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004
2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG5[43534:134656000]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6 Auth:LIBWRAP
2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG6[43534:134656000]: file ulimit = 11095 (can be changed with ‘ulimit -n’)
2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG6[43534:134656000]: poll() used […]

I will be attending meetBSD California 2008 at Google - Mountain View, California, November 15th and 16th, 2008. Will you be there?

There are several new interesting features in the upcoming Bacula release. Including, but not limited to:

“Accurate” backups regardless of mtime, mv, rm, etc
Copy Jobs
Virutal Backup / Synthetic Backup / Consolidation
Duplicate Job Control
TLS Authentication
Ignore Dir
Honor No Dump Flag
Plugins
libdbi framework

These features are being added to the development 2.5.x versions to be released as Bacula version 3.0.0. […]