Bacula – Network Backups
More and more people are learning about Bacula. Here is a little survey I did at LISA06.
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2006
The PostgreSQL Conference
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.
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spamd / pf
I’ve taken quite a liking to spamd and pf. I’m in the midst of documenting how to set it up on FreeBSD. I found one snag today: spamlogd was not updating the spamd table. It seems I’ve found the answer on the pf mailing list. Stay tuned.
Nokia standardization is practical
Nokia has the right idea. Why make different rechargers for each phone? Why not have one recharger for every phone? That way, should I forget my recharger when I go to a conference, I can borrow a recharger from any other Nokia owner. That is what happened this morning at NYCBSDCon. My phone was dying and my recharger was at home. OUCH.
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Bacula – restoring to Windows
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 1969-12-31 19:00:00 c:/ $ cd “c:/Documents and Settings/Dan Langille/My Documents/Technologies” cwd is: c:/Documents and Settings/Dan Langille/My Documents/Technologies/ $ dir -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 63655 2006-10-05 14:32:49 c:/Documents and Settings/Dan Langille/My
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How much shipping cost is fair?
I recently purchased four DLT drives; three from one seller, and one from another. The three drives cost me $30.25 to ship from Edmonton to Ottawa via Canada Post. The other drive cost me $48 in shipping. I knew that was on the high side when I bid for the item on ebay. I don’t think I got value for money as these images can demonstrate: I have emailed the seller. Hopefully we
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Burst and Google make a good team
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 still using Burst, but added AdSense as a personal campaign. That is, if Burst could not fill a particular ad slot, AdSense
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Fundraising for new hardware
I’m asking for donations to purchase new hardware. Details are in this FreeBSD Diary article. Thank you.
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HDD? Which HDD?
I’m trying to figure out what HDD to put in 2U server. The following is just a list of URLs I want to keep around for a while. Raptor versus WD4000YR Storage Review of Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD4000YR Wikipedia RAID Raptor from Newegg Storage Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 WD4000YR Raptor WD Support Customer reviews of WD4000YR
APC battery replacement
Last night I had my first battery failure. My little old APC Backups Pro 280 started complaining that I should replace the battery. Yes, I’d left the thing unplugged for a year (since BSDCan 2005). Plus the unit was about 5 or 6 years old. So it’s no wonder that the battery died. Luckily, there is a good place to find replacements, right here in Ottawa. I went to Total Battery, at their
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