April 2011

PGCon 2011 update

PGCon is an annual conference for users and developers of PostgreSQL, a leading relational database, which just happens to be open source. PGCon is the place to meet, discuss, build relationships, learn valuable insights, and generally chat about the work you are doing with PostgreSQL. If you want to learn why so many people are moving to PostgreSQL, PGCon will be the place to find out why. Whether you are a casual user […]

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Differential backup didn’t use scratch pool

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 on a pool to say use the scratch pool. Bacula just uses the scratch pool if one is defined. However, I checked

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INQUIRY command Failed

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 Sense: Error in CDB=no mtx: Request

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ZFS benchmarking ideas

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] $ bonnie++ Writing a byte at a time…done Writing intelligently…done Rewriting…done Reading a byte at a

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Getting Bacula running on my MacBook / OSX

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: This article will show how I got Bacula running on OSX. sudo port install bacula +client_only NOTE: for more recent version of MacPorts, this command worked: sudo port install bacula +client_only-console_bat The install looked something like this: [dan@dent:~] $ sudo port uninstall bacula —> Deactivating bacula @5.0.3_2+client_only —>

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