January 7, 2020 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Jan 7 2020

Archives are important to retain and pass on knowledge

Leave a Comment / General / By Dan Langille / January 7, 2020

Archives are important. When they are public and available for searching, it retains and passes on knowledge. It saves vast amounts of time. Case in point I started the copy-backups-to-tape process today. This appeared on the tape server: Jan 7 19:12:08 r720-01 kernel: (sa0:mps0:0:5:0): 64512-byte tape record bigger than supplied buffer Damn. Do I have a tape problem? Search results When searching for this, I found this FreeBSD Forums post from 2016 where […]

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This is a small desktop / short tower case which is connected to a couple of tape libraries. This post replaces a previous post. Partitions [dan@tape01:~] $ gpart show => 40 5860533088 ada0 GPT (2.7T) 40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K) 1064 984 – free – (492K) 2048 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 4196352 5856335872 3 freebsd-zfs (2.7T) 5860532224 904 – free – (452K) => 40 5860533088 ada1 GPT (2.7T) 40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K)