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Renaming a jail
Renaming a jail FreeBSD jails are a great tool. Whether you are using them to virtualize some of your systems (like I am) or to isolate certain processes, they are flexible enough and reliable enough to use for production. Recently, I had to retire some old jails and add some new jails. Instead of just
Restoring an INOPERABLE 3Ware unit
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grep, sed, and awk for fun and profit
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Bacula – copying a job; doing it better
Bacula – copying a job; doing it better I recently wrote about Bacula’s Copy job option. In that solution, I used an approach which copied all uncopied jobs from disk to tape. I’ve found a few annoyances with that initial approach and now I’m experimenting with a new approach. An added side-effect: less wear on
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ZFS benchmark
ZFS benchmark I have a 64-bit box with a ZFS raidx2 array. It now has 4GB of RAM and I recently purchased another 4GB. I thought I might do some benchmarks on it before and after I install the additional RAM. I will be using the benchmarks/bonnie++ port. The intial tests In this section I
Bacula – copying a job
Bacula – copying a job Don’t be fooled by Bacula. Although it is by far the most downloaded Open Source backup program, don’t be intimidated by it. Bacula can handle backing up your single machine, or your entire enterprise. According to SourceForge statistics, Bacula is by far the most downloaded backup software. I’ve been using
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Bacula: RunBeforeJob on Storage Daemon
Bacula: RunBeforeJob on Storage Daemon This article deals with a particular Bacula directive: RunAfterJob This directive, part of a Job resource, is used to run a command after the job completed. In my case, I am collecting statistics regarding tape errors. The directive has many options, including: run before or after the Job run on
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Testing the DLT
Testing the DLT Now that my tape labels have arrived, it’s time to run those tapes through Bacula. In this article, you’ll see: a list slots command fail a command line mtx-changer command fail the fix via device permissions a label barcodes fail a script to test tapes Oh, that script isn’t actually in this
DLT labels
DLT labels The new labels are in! On Wednesday of last week, I ordered some labels from get-it-low on eBay. They shipped on Thursday, and they arrived today (Monday). The item is listed as New Quantum ATL SDLT DLT Bar Code Labels Tag 6210201-02 and sold for $9.99 plus $5.84 shipping, for a total of