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“libcroco-0.6.so.3” not found

Leave a Comment / Open Source, PostgreSQL / By Dan Langille / January 22, 2010

Seen this? /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object “libcroco-0.6.so.3″ not found, required by ” msgfmt” Rebuild gettext. portupgrade -f gettext And try again Port details, not relevant: # less /var/db/ports/postgresql73/options # This file is auto-generated by ‘make config’. # No user-servicable parts inside! # Options for postgresql-server-7.3.21_1 _OPTIONS_READ=postgresql-server-7.3.21_1 WITH_NLS=true WITHOUT_PAM=true WITHOUT_MIT_KRB5=true WITHOUT_HEIMDAL_KRB5=true WITHOUT_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=true WITHOUT_LIBC_R=true WITHOUT_TESTS=true WITHOUT_DEBUG=true The building […]

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mtx-changer script catches me

Leave a Comment / Bacula, Open Source / By Dan Langille / January 17, 2010

NOTE: this problem may not be a problem. After rebooting the system while having the tape library powered up, the problem went away. This may or may not be coincident. Note to self: mtx-changer needs more customization than I thought. Today showed great progress in completing the integration of my tape library into my Bacula

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Upgrading Pentabarf

Leave a Comment / Open Source, Pentabarf, PostgreSQL / By Dan Langille / December 24, 2009

Pentabarf is the conference tool used by BSDCan and PGCON. I upgraded it recently and ran into trouble. I think that has been resolved now. Since I last upgraded Pentabarf, it went from using svn to using git. Thus, you need a clean checkout of Pentabarf. I copied away the original source before I did

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Faster backups

1 Comment / Backups, Bacula, Open Source, ZFS / By Dan Langille / December 5, 2009

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

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Migrating some Bacula jobs

Leave a Comment / Bacula, Open Source / By Dan Langille / September 2, 2009

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

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Bacula – moving File storage

Leave a Comment / Backups, Bacula, Open Source / By Dan Langille / September 2, 2009

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

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What jobs are on these tapes?

5 Comments / Bacula, PostgreSQL / By Dan Langille / August 28, 2009

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

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LANG prevents PostgreSQL initdb

2 Comments / Open Source, PostgreSQL / By Dan Langille / April 17, 2009

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

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qemu – running emulation

Leave a Comment / Open Source / By Dan Langille / April 15, 2009

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:

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PGCon 2009 Schedule released

Leave a Comment / Conferences, PGCon, PostgreSQL / By Dan Langille / March 16, 2009 / PostgreSQL

The preliminary PGCon 2009 schedule has been released. PGCon is the premiere PostgreSQL conference. It is simply the best place to meet other PostgreSQL people and learn more. The talks are absolutely amazing, not to mention the great social atmosphere. If you’re looking to hire any PostgreSQL talent, PGCon is the place to be. You’ll

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