No scroll lock? use FN-C
Some of the newer keyboards do not have a scroll lock key. Try FN-C instead. Does that work for you?
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AT&T tried to kill BSD
I cannot claim this. Will Backman said: Thing I think about while driving: BSD. AT&T tries to kill BSD. Steve Jobs uses BSD to save Apple. Apple makes the iPhone. iPhone is tied to AT&T. iPhone activations save AT&T from the recession. BSD saved AT&T.
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How much are those volumes in the library?
I pretty much ignore my tape library. It asks for tapes when it runs out. However, I think I should be looking ahead and anticipating requests. Thus, I came up with this SQL query: [dan@ngaio:~] $ psql bacula psql (8.4.5) Type “help” for help. bacula=# SELECT mediaid, volumename, volstatus, slot, inchanger, pool.name, volbytes FROM media, pool WHERE media.poolid = pool.poolid AND volumename LIKE ‘ETU0%’ AND inchanger != 0 ORDER BY slot; mediaid |
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Bacula Copy Job
With Bacula, a great piece of backup software [disclosure: I wrote the PostgreSQL module for Bacula], you can copy a Job after it has run. This is often used to backup first to disk, and then Copy that Job to tape. That is exactly what I’ve been doing recently. NOTE: You can also migrate a Job, which is very similar to a Job Copy. With a Job Copy, the original Job remains and
Why not use the tape that’s there?
*run A job name must be specified. The defined Job resources are: 1: BackupCatalog 2: RestoreFiles 3: MigrateDiskToTape 4: CopyMegaFileToTape 5: laptop 6: laptop-vpn 7: laptop-wifi-5.3 8: laptop-verify 9: laptop-websites 10: laptop-xp 11: wocker 12: bast basic 13: bast home 14: dbclone basic 15: dbclone home 16: polo basic 17: polo 18: kraken basic 19: kraken 20: nyi maildir 21: nyi maildir tarball 22: nyi basic 23: nyi 24: supernews basic 25: supernews
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Running a Bacula Copy Job
Over the past few months, I’ve been getting ready to copy Bacula backups from disk to tape, via a Copy Job. Tonight was my first attempt. I failed. And I think I know why. Concurrency. The output so far: *run job=CopyMegaFileToTape Using Catalog “MyCatalog” Run Copy job JobName: CopyMegaFileToTape Bootstrap: *None* Client: wocker-fd FileSet: wocker files Pool: MegaFile-wocker (From Job resource) Read Storage: MegaFile-wocker (From Pool resource) Write Storage: DigitalTapeLibrary (From Storage from
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pf – cannot define table: Cannot allocate memory
I use pf on FreeBSD 8.1-stable as my firewall of choice. Recently I’ve started using the University of Alberta list of trapped addresses. As of the time of writing this, the list contains about 56,000 IP addresses. When combined with my own list of 27,000 SPAMTRAP addresses, I quick ran into a problem when reload my rule set: $ sudo pfctl -f /etc/pf.rules No ALTQ support in kernel ALTQ related functions disabled /etc/pf.rules:69:
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Syncing your iPhone and Google contacts
It was my riding buddy, John Boatman who told me he synced his iPhone and Google contacts. Just before I broke my arm in June, my iPhone died (actually, I lost the contents, it didn’t die) and I was without all my phone numbers when I really needed them. The phone numbers were there, in the backups, but they wouldn’t restore. I did get them restored eventually, but that’s not the point. After
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IPv6 woes
I’m not sure why I can’t get to the internet from my systems inside my LAN. The gateway can. Interesting: On the client box, I can’t see any IPv6 traffic leaving the except icmp. The following demonstrates: Setting up a $ ifconfig em0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC> ether 00:1b:21:51:ab:2d inet 10.55.0.44 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.55.0.255 inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe51:ab2d%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet6 2001:470:1f07:b80:21b:21ff:fe51:ab2d prefixlen 64 autoconf nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV> media: Ethernet autoselect
zfs send | zfs receive
For the record, I was doing a copy within a system recently: # time zfs send storage/bacula@transfer | mbuffer | zfs receive storage/compressed/bacula-buffer in @ 0.0 kB/s, out @ 0.0 kB/s, 4394 GB total, buffer 100% fullll summary: 4394 GByte in 35 h 11 min 35.5 MB/s real 2111m18.302s user 11m44.831s sys 258m59.151s I was copying my Bacula Volumes from non-compressed ZFS to compressed ZFS. # zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
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