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ntp wasn’t running but Nagios didn’t notice

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Earlier today, I noticed the following output from a Bacula job: 24-Sep 14:14 bacula-dir JobId 38548: Start Backup JobId 38548, Job=latens_home.2010-09-24_14.12.38_31 24-Sep 14:14 bacula-dir JobId 38548: Using Device “MegaFile-latens” 24-Sep 14:09 latens-fd JobId 38548: DIR and FD clocks differ by -307 seconds, FD automatically compensating. That’s 5 minutes. It shouldn’t be varying by that much. So I started ntp. That’s when I noticed it was not being started by /etc/rc.conf. But I thought […]

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ZFS – how much space do I have?

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According to this, I have 5.41T available. $ zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT storage 12.7T 7.28T 5.41T 57% ONLINE – According to this, I have 3.7T available: $ df -h | grep stora storage 3.7T 1.7G 3.7T 0% /storage storage/Retored 3.7T 39K 3.7T 0% /storage/Retored storage/bacula 8.0T 4.3T 3.7T 54% /storage/bacula storage/pgsql 3.7T 5.5G 3.7T 0% /storage/pgsql Which is correct?

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Why no Drobo? Or SmartStor?

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People have asked me why I’m creating what amounts to a NAS. Why don’t I use Drobo or SmartStor for example? The above don’t have ZFS, which is the best solution for redundant storage. I can’t install Bacula on those systems. Sure, Bacula could run on another system and access that storage, but being directly on the system has advantages. Or why don’t you use FreeNAS for example? You’d be running FreeBSD! FreeNAS,

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Graphing

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I have about 14,000 data points collected from backups. I started in Oct 2007, but have not done anything with the data. I’d like your help. I have put the data into a PostgreSQL database and dumped it. The dump is here: http://langille.org/tmp/dlt_stats.sql.gz The table looks like: $ psql dan psql (8.4.2) Type “help” for help. dan=# \d dlt_stats Table “public.dlt_stats” Column | Type | Modifiers ————-+—————————–+——————————————————– id | integer | not null

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mtx-changer script catches me

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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 system. I have been writing the testing and configuration of supporting tools. I had moved onto a new

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cmake output changes

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I noticed a difference in the regression testing output between two systems today. cmake-2.6.4 Stopping the Bacula File daemon Stopping the Bacula Storage daemon Stopping the Bacula Director daemon ===== pretest OK 00:00:39 ===== 1/110 Testing disk:acl-xattr-test Passed 2/110 Testing disk:action-on-purge-test Passed 3/110 Testing disk:accurate-test Passed 4/110 Testing disk:allowcompress-test Passed 5/110 Testing disk:auto-label-test Passed 6/110 Testing disk:backup-bacula-test Passed 7/110 Testing disk:backup-to-null Passed 8/110 Testing disk:base-job-test Passed 9/110 Testing disk:bextract-test Passed 10/110 Testing disk:big-fileset-test

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Faster backups

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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 since the last backup will be picked up in the next incremental or differential backup. Full backups are

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What jobs are on these tapes?

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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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For the weekend

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There are a few random tasks (in addition to my big list of things to do) that I’d like to tackle over the weekend: Start regression testing Bacula on 7.x – Done Send out a BSDCan letter of invitation – Done Complete that application for security clearance – Hmm, partly done…. just need the vehicle details – Done take the patches from wxs for Bacula and feed them upstream – Done Adjust the

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Home network was offline

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Today I arrived home from a 12 day business trip. While I was away my home network lost connectivity. When I arrived home, I started to investigate. dhclient was running. No IP address. Running it found no DHCP servers. The MoCA light was flashing red on the ONT. I called Verizon. We rebooted the OTN (or so I was told we were rebooting it). Then we rebooted my Verizon router, which was odd.

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