January 17, 2009
mitch @ 2:17 pm on January 17, 2009
I’m a computer systems consultant by profession… and I’ve come across the need to setup a backup system. I’ve used Bacula before, and I rather like it. I’ve used various different libraries with it, an MSL from HP and a StorVault from Dell, but this is my first time using a Storstation from Sony. I started setting it up, and I almost had it setup and a tried to start labeling the media… and I got this:
Sending label command for Volume “A0BJ3B” Slot 1 …
3307 Issuing autochanger “unload slot 7, drive 0″ command.
3304 Issuing autochanger “load slot 1, drive 0″ command.
3992 Bad autochanger “load slot 1, drive 0″: ERR=Child died from signal 15: Termination.
I was setting this up on an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server and it all had gone well until this.
Turns out the library is to slow and I had to make some modifications with the config. In the bacula-sd.conf and make the drive config look like this: (its counter intuitive I would think it should have been in the AutoChanger config… but its part of the Drive config.
Device {
Name = Drive-1
Drive Index = 0
Media Type = AIT-4
Archive Device = /dev/nst0
AutomaticMount = yes;
AlwaysOpen = yes;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
AutoChanger = yes
Maximum Changer Wait = 600
}
The key is the Maximum Changer Wait. Default is 120 seconds… I tried 300 and that didn’t work… but 600 is working for me.
I thought I’d post it tho, because I didn’t find anyone talking(in english) about this library with bacula…
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January 14, 2009
mitch @ 9:14 am on January 14, 2009
I held off for a couple months and just upgraded my laptop to 8.10, only to find out the wireless is still having issues. I have the Intel 4965AGN mini-pci express, and its really not supported in 8.10 with known issues. All of which are a pain. And a new one I didn’t recognize before… Network-Manager will not work on a WPA2-Enterprise network… I’ve added notes to a bug report regarding the issue… but nothing so far.
However, even with installing the backports modules that is recommended on thinkwiki and other places. It still seems far less stable than 8.04. However, I thought I’d try something else instead of rolling back yet again…. I installed the 2.6.28 kernel from the upcoming Jaunty Jackalope release. While it hasn’t fixed my issues with WPA2-Enterprise, it has made 8.10 more stable overall for me. And for that, I will stay on Intrepid Ibex until Jaunty goes beta 2 or so.
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January 4, 2009
mitch @ 10:13 am on January 4, 2009
Well… I”ve been playing with Python for work for a couple years now… and over the last 6 months or so, I’ve been using django for various projects. And I’ve decided my blog as well as everything else on this site will be replaced by django apps. Some that I will write and others that I will find and download off the net. I’ve been using and keeping wordpress updated for all these years and well… I have to say, I don’t really like it, I don’t feel its allowed me to make the sites or extensions that I want within the templates framework they they supply. So, over the next couple months, I will be putting a new site together with a new design as well. The hardest part is going to be getting all my old posts into the new database. Since I don’t have many comments (only 4 or so for the years I’ve been doing it) I’m not going to bother keeping those… as that would make the task even harder… But a new design will come with the site… one I have seen a few examples and have my mind racing over… but I don’t know what it will be just yet. should be fun.
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January 3, 2009
mitch @ 2:43 pm on January 3, 2009
So… I’ve been wanting a new phone for a while… and I want an Android based phone. After seeing the G1, while I believe its nice… its not worth the move just yet… But after seeing the announcement from Samsung that they will be releasing sometime in Q2 of 2009.
Its rumoured to resemble the Samsung Omnia… which from the looks of it: I love it.
Sweet Looking Phone
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January 1, 2009
mitch @ 12:22 pm on January 1, 2009
I was visiting my normal news sites and came across this article that I thought was quite amusing, entitled: 2008: The Year the Geeks Took Over
And I just wanted to quote a section from the #1 section entitled: “#1. The Election of the First Black(berry) President”
In 2000, George W. Bush was the affable, goofy common man we’d all like to have at our barbecue. Al Gore was a robot, smart and unfeeling as HAL 9000 and just as likely to lock us all out of the bay doors because of some unfathomable calculation made in his computer brain. We went for Bush, and in fact we’ve been voting for the George W. Bush in that matchup for a couple of centuries, due to an odd misfire in the American brain that associates low intelligence with honesty.
In 2008, that same stage was set again. The white, elderly, self-effacing war hero who boasted that he finished at the bottom of his class in the Academy. The small town beauty queen. A ticket as American as a six shooter.
They were matched up against a young, not-white guy with a foreign name who did not run on his humble roots, could not boast that he was a war hero, who insisted on pronouncing “Pakistan” as “Pah-kis-stahn” and who, by all appearances, would go into a violent seizure if his cell phone or Blackberry were taken away.
Then he threw the switch on an online fundraising machine that drowned the campaign in cash (or more accurately, drowned McCain’s campaign with it) and mobilized a high-tech “ground game” that will be studied by every future campaign, volunteers dispatched by advanced databases that tracked every voter.
That’s right: he simply out-geeked McCain.
There are other gems in that article and that section as well but I liked those portions enough to reprint them here.
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