In a sea of inadequete cfengine examples, one stands out: http://www.sysadmin.hep.ac.uk/wiki/Cfengine.
I’m in the early stages of developing an administration strategy for a jail server I’m setting up. It will run regression tests for Bacula. I’ve already found ezjail, which will help me create the jails. What I needed was tool for administering […]

I was at OSCON 2007 this week. I was there to present my Nobody Ever Regretted Making a Backup talk:
In the past few years, Bacula has been gaining ground on more established solutions, both open source and proprietary. This talk will introduce you to Bacula, show you the main components, give you an outline […]

I’ve been playing with OpenVPN since mid December. I like it. I like it better than IPsec. Why? Because OpenVPN can give me direct access to all my systems wherever I am. I can cvsup from my cvsup server at home from a hotel in Toledo (if I’m ever there). […]

Ever had a cactus remotely injected?
Sounds painful. Not really.

More and more people are learning about Bacula. Here is a little survey I did at LISA06.

There will be a PostgreSQL Conference in May 2007. I’ll definintely be there! I’m looking forward to this.
It’s right after a BSD conference. There will be quite a few people attending both conferences. One trip, two conferences, a great time.

Today, as I was writing up an invoice, I accidentally saved it over another.
No worries!  Bacula to the rescue.  I managed to get the original files back from tape.
One hint: include your pathnames in ”quotes” so they are correctly parsed.  Like this:

$ dir
———- 0 root wheel 0 […]

Just about everyone has been putting ads on their websites. I’ve been with BurstMedia since early 1999. They are very reliable. Their cheques have always arrived on time and I have never had reason to question their results.
Then Google AdSense arrived. I started using AdSense in April 2006. I was […]

I’m asking for donations to purchase new hardware. Details are in this FreeBSD Diary article. Thank you.

I’m in the midst of the first days of BSDCan, so why I am writing about Bacula? Because I found this description of what someone new to Bacula thinks about it. FWIW, they are changing from Amanda to Bacula.
cheers