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Bacula? Why you no mount?

Leave a Comment / Bacula / By Dan Langille / December 14, 2012

From this morning: $ bconsole Connecting to Director bacula.example.org:9101 1000 OK: bacula-dir Version: 5.2.6 (21 February 2012) Enter a period to cancel a command. *mount storage=DigitalTapeLibrary slot=1 3001 OK mount requested. Specified slot ignored. Device=”DTL01″ (/dev/nsa0) And nothing mounts… But…. *mount storage=DigitalTapeLibrary slot=1 3001 OK mount requested. Specified slot ignored. Device=”DTL01″ (/dev/nsa0) Eh? OK, backups […]

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Multi-site WordPress installation

Leave a Comment / Open Source, WordPress / By Dan Langille / December 12, 2012

I use WordPress for three websites: http://dan.langille.org/ (this website) http://news.freshports.org/ http://wp.freebsddiary.org This also mean I have WordPress installed three times. Recently, I looked at moving to multi-site WordPress. I failed. Or rather, I abandoned the process. My goals: have one instance of WordPress for all three website have each blog available via both https Option

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Hardcoding device names

Leave a Comment / Backups, Bacula, Open Source, SCSI / By Dan Langille / December 8, 2012

This article talks about FreeBSD 8.2 and how device names might change when you add new devices to an existing system. The other day, when I was telling you about the new tape library, one of the important bits was the device names. The existing tape drive was sa0. The new one was sa1. That’s

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Testing a tape library

Leave a Comment / Backups, Bacula, Open Source / By Dan Langille / December 7, 2012

As recently written, I have acquired a tape library with a 15-tape magazine. It contains a DLT-8000 tape drive which, although it is no longer state-of-the-art, is a step up from the DLT-7000 I am currently using. Today, I will try using this unit for the first time. I’ll do a simple write, try changing

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Adding a new tape library

Leave a Comment / Backups, Bacula, Open Source / By Dan Langille / December 4, 2012 / Tape Libraries

Recently, I rearranged the bottom shelf of my rack and rotated the DEC library 90°. Then I placed a new [to me] Overland DLT MinilibraryXpress (model LXM8115). I plugged the cable from my server into the Overland unit and daisy-chained that to the DEC library. The grey cable which leads up and out of the

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cannot open SCSI device ‘/dev/pass11’ – Permission denied

Leave a Comment / Backups, Bacula, File Systems, SCSI / By Dan Langille / November 27, 2012

Right after getting my SCSI cable problems fixed, I was all set to run some Bacula jobs. They immediately started failing: 27-Nov 12:59 bacula-dir JobId 112458: Start Copying JobId 112458, Job=CopyToTape-Diff.2012-11-27_12.58.05_08 27-Nov 12:59 bacula-dir JobId 112458: Using Device “DTL01” 27-Nov 12:59 kraken-sd JobId 112458: Ready to read from volume “DiffAuto-2357” on device “MegaFile” (/storage/compressed/bacula/volumes). 27-Nov

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It was the SCSI cable

Leave a Comment / Backups, Bacula, SCSI / By Dan Langille / November 27, 2012

Last night I powered on my DEC tape library. I had forgotten to power it on earlier in the week after a maintenance session. Backups to tape were queueing up. Bits needed to be moved. Queues needed to be emptied. I powered on. I ran camcontrol rescan followed by camcontrol devlist. The tape library was

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WordPress Migration: Tidying up the comments

1 Comment / WordPress / By Dan Langille / November 11, 2012

This is the seventh in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I did some cleaning up of the comments after I imported them. Clean? What’s to clean After importing the comments, I noticed, or rather, I was reminded, that Phorum does some things that WordPress

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WordPress Migration: Updating the comment signatures

Leave a Comment / WordPress / By Dan Langille / November 10, 2012

This is the sevent in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I updated some of the comments to deal with some tokens left over from the previous system. Tokens? What tokens? When I copied over the comments from my old system, I took the raw

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WordPress Migration: redirecting old URLs

1 Comment / WordPress / By Dan Langille / November 9, 2012

This is the sixth in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I enabled the old URLs. This is important only if you want the ‘old’ content to be found. This is especially important if your website is well established. People will have links to your

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