In this post, I am using FreeBSD 9.3 but what I do here should have wide application, especially the errors I encounter. I believe in backups. Not just rsync, but multiple copies and in multiple places. RAID is not a backup. rsync is not a backup. The goal of this post is to send a […]
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A problem arose today which I have never seen before. I do not know what caused it and I do not know precisely how I fixed it. I am using Baclua 7.0.5 on FreeBSD 9.3 I found this email today: This is Bacula asking for more ‘tape’. I say tape, because that is an easy
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I encountered this issue today on a FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p4 system. The solution: freebsd-update fetch install and then a reboot.
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Earlier today, I saw a bunch of emails like this: for <root@localhos>; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:32:36 +0000 (UTC) From: root@localhost.example.org (Bacula) Subject: Bacula: Copy Fatal Error of crey-fd Full Sender: bacula@bacula.example.org To: root@localhost.example.org Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:32:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-Id: <20150121203236.E993D2B28@bacula.example.org> X-Gm-Original-To: dan@example.org 21-Jan 20:32 bacula-dir JobId 197313: Warning: FileSet MD5 digest
Bacula helps me solve a mergemaster problem which broke Bacula Read More »
freebsd-update is a great tool. It reduces my workload. It’s hard to use it wrong, but I have managed to do so. So have other people. Yesterday, three of us encountered the same issue. We did it wrong. We didn’t do it wrong yesterday. We did it wrong months ago, and now it’s come back
Failure with freebsd-update; how not to upgrade your systems Read More »
Just a note for myself. I had this kind of thing in /etc/fstab so I could share one installation of plugins and themes for WordPress. /usr/local/wordress/plugins /usr/jails/freebsddiary.org/usr/local/www/wordpress/plugins nullfs ro,nosuid,noexec,late 0 0 /usr/local/wordress/themes /usr/jails/freebsddiary.org/usr/local/www/wordpress/themes nullfs ro,nosuid,noexec,late 0 0 /usr/local/wordress/plugins /usr/jails/news.freshports.org/usr/local/www/wordpress/plugins nullfs ro,nosuid,noexec,late 0 0 /usr/local/wordress/themes /usr/jails/news.freshports.org/usr/local/www/wordpress/themes nullfs ro,nosuid,noexec,late 0 0 Then I moved them to their
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Full disclosure: I’m biased. I like the combination of PostgreSQL, FreeBSD, ZFS, and Bacula. In fact, I like it so much, I wrote the PostgreSQL backend for Bacula. Since then, I have been using Bacula for over 10 years. I have backed up to HDD, DDS, DLT, and SDLT. Bacula has proven to be reliable
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Here is the output for zfs-stats on slocum. This represents a 24 hour period. This server acts as my database server (MySQL and PostgreSQL), and runs bacula-dir, but does not store any backups locally. It also houses the dev copy of FreshPorts.
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Here’s something to be aware of. Update your PostgreSQL client on your Bacula client if it is used for backing up the Catalog. Ngaios just told me: FILE_AGE WARNING: /usr/backups/bacula/MyCatalog.dump is 45125 seconds old and 0 bytes I looked at the backup job from earlier today: 28-Dec 08:15 bacula-dir JobId 195194: shell command: run BeforeJob
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Here is the output for zfs-stats on knew. This represents a 24 hour period. This server receives backups (via bacula-sd) and runs regression testing in various jails for the Bacula project. As a little side venture, it also loads up each of my backed-up databases.
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