I use FreeBSD. I’ve used it since 1998. For me, it does good stuff, reliably, and predictably. The community is very supportive and helpful. That goes a long way when choosing your open source operating system. Included within FreeBSD, since FreeBSD 4.0 in March 2000, is a great tool for separating out services and to […]
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A few weeks ago, I moved some Bacula Volumes from one Storage Daemon to another. In fact, I was decommissioning the old bacula-sd and creating a new one. I copied all the Volumes over. Backups have been running smoothly ever since. However. Today I tried a restore. It failed. Without any useful diagnostic information. Here
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I’m thinking about a Nagios check to let me know the status of various Bacula pools. As in, how many volumes are left, versus the maximum number of volumes permitted in this pool. Here is the bconsole command I would use: And here’s the command line bit which might work: I’ll ponder this a bit
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I’ve been building up a new server lately. Now I’m ready to move the tape library from the old host to thew new host. As I opened the new server to insert the existing SCSI card, I discovered that I needed a new SCSI card. It just would not fit. This is the card I
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I was trying to recompile sysutils/bacula-client on a FreeBSD 8.4 jail when I encountered some perplexing link errors. It took me a while to figure it out, but with the help of some IRC conversation, we figured it out. I started off by deleting the old (quite old) port: bacula-client-5.0.3 Then I recompiled: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula-client
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I’ve been moving services from one server to another. Manually. My Bacula server is now running in a FreeBSD jail. I just got ready to copy backups from disk to tape. But one aspect was failing: updating my statistics. After each tape job, I collect statistics on that tape, with respect to tape errors. That
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One of the challenges of providing hands-on demonstrations is giving everyone their own sandbox to play in. I don’t want people to spend time on installing software. I want people to learn about the software in question, specifically Bacula. With this in mind, I’ve been building up a solution based on FreeBSD 9.1, ZFS, and
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From time to time, my Bacula – space and time website shows some old jobs that need to be copied to tape. Stuff from 100 days or more. There’s no reason to copy stuff that old to tape. It’s already been copied to tape. So why does it appear? Last night I swapped some tapes
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Sometimes, you need to restore. But you don’t know when the file changed. Here’s a simple SQL query which shows me that information: And here is the output Based on that output, I want to look at restoring from Jan 13 and before. That’s when the filesize change last changed from 172KB.
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I wrote this some time ago, but never published it. Here we go… Bacula is a fantastic backup solution. It’s open source. It uses a database to keep track of backups. I’ve been writing recently about using ssl-admin as a certificate authority tool. Today, I started using ssl-admin for generating certificates for my backup clients.
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