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Today is the first Sunday since I started using a scratch pool with Bacula. I was disappointed to see an email asking for a tape to be mounted. Why? With four tapes in the scratch pool, I shouldn’t be asked for a tape. Something is wrong. But there is no directive […]

I hate it when this happens:

[root@kraken /usr/home/dan]# /usr/local/sbin/mtx-changer /dev/pass10 list
mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes
mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no
mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=0 (Unknown?!)
mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=No Sense
mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no
mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no
mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no
mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Code = 00
mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Qualifier = 00
mtx: Request Sense: BPV=no
mtx: Request […]

I’m about to double the RAM in my ZFS system. It will go from 4GB to 8GB.
Right now, I have:

real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB)
avail memory = 4100382720 (3910 MB)

I’m not interested in any big extensive benchmarks. I just want something simple. Hence:

$ cd /storage/bonnie/
[dan@kraken:/storage/bonnie] $ ls -l
total 0
[dan@kraken:/storage/bonnie] $ […]

I recently acquired a MacBook Pro. Things are going well. I’m using Time Capsule, but I also want to use Bacula. I went with MacPorts:

sudo port install bacula +client_only

The install looked something like this:
[dan@dent:~] $ sudo port uninstall bacula
—> Deactivating bacula @5.0.3_2+client_only
—> Cleaning bacula
—> Uninstalling bacula @5.0.3_2+client_only
—> Cleaning […]