I have been using Bacula since 2004. I started off on DDS tapes, then moved to DLT. Now I’m backing up to a ZFS array and the copying to tape. About a year ago, I obtained about 200 DLT tapes from a friend. They were no longer used at his place of work. He used […]
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PGCon 2011 has started. The formal schedule says Tuesday, but people have already started to arrive in Ottawa and many more start their journeys today. Late last week, there was another flurry of registrations coming in. I saw some today. I expect another peak on Monday as last minute decisions are made. There have been
Bacula is a backup and restore solution which I’ve been using and contributing to since 2004. Recently, I started backing up to disk and then copying to tape later. This approach, combined with a scratch pool, has proven to be very low maintenance, from a sysadmin point of view. I think all sysadmin will agree:
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I’ve been in Ottawa for a week now, preparing for both BSDCan 2011 and for PGCon 2011. Pretty much everything is done. The t-shirts are ordered. The lanyards, tote bags, and Google goodies are ready to go. The hard stuff is done. What’s left is mostly logistics, coordination, timing, and organization. And for you to
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PGCon is just two weeks away. Based on previous years, half of you register between today and the conference. I don’t know why… it just happens that way. Yes, it means our attendance will double in the next two weeks. PGCon 2011 will be on 19-20 May 2011 at University of Ottawa, with two days
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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