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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I was looking at RackMonkey and RackTables today. As part of the latter, I was installing PostgreSQL on my FreeBSD workstation. I failed. This had worked many times before, on many other servers. This was the first time I’d seen this particular situation. # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user “pgsql”. This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized
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I managed to get CENTOS5 booting today. In a virtual machine on my FreeBSD workstation. This post is mainly just notes for myself. Create the blank HDD image file on my host OS: qemu-img create -f qcow2 c.img 3G Installing the new guest OS, by booting from the ISO image which appears as a CDROM: qemu -cdrom CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso.iso -hda c.img -m 256 -boot d Setting up the bridging between the guest and the
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These are my notes on attempting to setup OneCMBD. Some of these items would be added directly to their wiki, if I they give me access. At http://www.onecmdb.org/wiki/index.php/Get_Started_V2.0#On_Linux_platforms_2: bin/onemdb.sh start should be bin/onecmdb.sh start (missing a ‘c’) Same for the stop command. Same error occurs in the README. bin/onecmdb.sh contains #!/bin/bash. Why bash? Why not /bin/sh? ELF binary type “0” not known – you need to load linux compatibility: kldload linux. This needs
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Are any of you running OneCMDB? If not, are you running some other Configuration Management Database?
I wanted to buy a netbook tonight. I failed. The website claimed the item was in stock. Off I went. “Sorry, we don’t carry that item at this store.” I’m sorry Best Buy, but I’m not driving to another store until you give me accurate information.
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