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cfengine - practical examples

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

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 […]

OSCON 2007 - the details, the people

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

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 […]

Good bye IPsec. Hello OpenVPN.

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

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). […]

cacti - remove injection exploit

Friday, January 12th, 2007

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

Bacula - Network Backups

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

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

The PostgreSQL Conference

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

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.

Bacula - restoring to Windows

Friday, October 20th, 2006

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 […]

Burst and Google make a good team

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

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 […]

Fundraising for new hardware

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

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

Bacula from a newbie’s point of view

Monday, May 8th, 2006

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.
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