From http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ Interview with Dan Langille. We talk about the 2010 BSDCan and PGCon conferences. More information at http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/ and http://www.pgcon.org/2010/. We also talk briefly about FreeBSD 8. File Info: 16Min, 8MB.
Backups come in three flavors: Full – backup everything Differential – backup everything since the last Full backup Incremental – backup everything since the last backup (Full or Incremental) I took the above from What Is Bacula? Most systems use mtime to determine if a file has changed. Thus, any file that has been modified since the last backup will be picked up in the next incremental or differential backup. Full backups are
I recently had a conversation with a Nigerian scammer. (08:44:47) aalinaamoda: hey (09:00:00) Dan Langille: hey (09:00:06) aalinaamoda: How u doing (09:00:20) Dan Langille: wonderfuly (09:00:25) aalinaamoda: good (09:03:10) Dan Langille: So, what is your goal? Goal as in getting my money? (09:03:30) aalinaamoda: Hmm (09:03:38) aalinaamoda: i am a deaf (09:04:13) Dan Langille: Excellant. My brother taught me sign language. What system do you use? Untrue, and bogus. (09:04:40) aalinaamoda: Your brother
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It appears that FiOS has stopped blocking port 80. I discovered this last night when I accidentally pasted a URL for http://beta.freebsddiary.org/ into an IRC channel. That website used to be publicly available, until Dec 2007 when I moved to Philadelphia and started with FiOS. Sometime after that, things started work. Looking back in my logs, the change occurred on 16 April 2009.
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What do these webpages have in common? http://www.zyzoom.org/vb/showthread.php?t=91729 http://www.utksaweb.org/index.php?db=q_a&actKey=print&no=7028&no_header=1 http://www.turkhackteam.org/tht-yardim-merkezi/benim-pc-kac-gb-ram-a-kadar-olabilir-253473.html http://www.somewhereinblog.net/blog/sciencezone/29012912 http://kelompoktugasptik.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html http://www.bahrainforums.com/printthread.php?t=261097 There are several accurate answers. There is only one correct answer.
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I noticed that one of our disk-based Volumes used a label name similar to that of our tape-based Volumes. To avoid confusion, I will rename that Volume. But, renaming a Volume is not simple, nor recommended if the Volume contains data. It is better to migrate the data instead. The Volume in question has MediaId = 42 (seriously!): | 42 | PEQ574L4 | Append | 1 | 4,144,705,431 | 0 | 31,536,000 |
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I noticed today that the Bacula installation was still using the default File Storage location of /tmp. That is adequate for testing, but we should move it elsewhere. The safest approach to making this change is: stop bacula-sd copy the files to the new location rename the old location amend bacula-sd.conf restart bacula-sd test After you have confirmed everything is OK, you can remove the old location.
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I use Bacula. To be clear, I wrote part of Bacula (the PostgreSQL part). Today I need to find out what jobs are on each of three tapes. Why? I just happened to cancel a 1.5TB job a few hours before it was to finish. By this time it had written to three tapes. I am guessing that the last two tapes can be reused. I’m also guessing that the first one cannot
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Data center management is pretty big. I suspect most big centers have roll-your-own solutions. Here are the open source solutions I looked at: RackTables RackMonkey OneCMDB GLPI Just FYI.
Have you used any software for tracking data center assets? This computer powered by this UPS which is covered by this service contract? Some background: I asked a similar question on the FreeBSD ISP mailing list. Check that out.
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