Today I ran a test upgrade of my Bacula installation. I went from 1.36.3 to 1.38.5. After running the database upgrade script, which creates new columns and a few new tables, I noticed that I needed to set some permissions.
grant all on device to group bacula;
grant all on device_deviceid_seq to group bacula;
grant all […]

I’ve been given a patch to test. It changes the SCSI driver so that it will be slightly more like Linux and Solaris. I’m just documenting the patch process here so we can see what I’m doing, in case something goes wrong. This patch will allow us to open the tape drive, […]

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 […]

I’m heading off to Utah at the end of the month. The primary goal is to do some mountain biking in Moab. I’ve been there before but it’s time to go back again.
As part of my trip preparation, I contacted the Greater Utah BSD User Group (aka GUBUG. Wouldn’t you know it! […]

If you use Bacula, now is the time to donate. The project is raising funds to drive an encryption subproject. All funds will be donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The original call for funds is here and here. The status as of today is here (they are just under the 40% […]

FreshPorts is an automated reporting mechanism for the FreeBSD ports and package. You may be familiar with freshmeat, upon which FreshPorts is loosely based. The major difference is that FreshPorts is 100% automated; everything operates off scripts.
Features
The key features of FreshPorts includes a powerful search tool and the ability to create custom watch […]

I’m getting through the firewall upgrade process. The first error was forgetting to set up the NAT rules. That was a silly error.
Right now, I just have to get stunnel installed and configured. I used that for publishing my websites. From the web server, I run cvsup and get the latest files […]

I have a firewall that’s running FreeBSD 4.11. I’m planning to upgrade to 5.4 tonight. The backups are running (via Bacula [of course!]) now.
I installed 5.4 on a separate HDD a few weeks ago, but have not copied over the configuration files etc. I’ll have to do that tonight.
I’ll be documenting what […]

I’ve been using a customized version of Phorum for some time. It has served me well over the years, including an article feedback module I created.
Tonight, it bit me.
The host field is limited to 50 characters. Never mind that FQDN can be much longer than that. That’s the only poor design decision […]

I recently became interested in customizing some of the news feeds for FreshPorts. Specifically, I wanted to allow users to have a news feed for their watch list (that’s the list of software they want to track). The existing news feed is already the most popular item on the website. It […]