Bacula – the backup solution
More and more people are learning about Bacula. Here is a little survey I did at LISA06.
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Bacula
FreshPorts downtime
Earlier this week, we had a bit of a crisis. The colo which provides bandwidth and servers to FreshPorts (and all the other websites I run), was unexpectedly shutdown. BChosting sold their Vancouver facilities to Netluxe, who, by all accounts, shut down the ops center without notifying customers. Well, I wasn’t notified. I was contacted
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All commits under a point in the tree
Have you ever wanted to see all the commits to devel before? What about all the commits to the various Apache ports?
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Link to download a port skeleton
Lars Engels had an idea. Why not have a place where you can download a port skeleton? You know, the files that make up a port (Makefile, pkg-plist, distinfo, etc). As Lars put it: It came to my mind when I tried out the Frenzy live cd yesterday. It does not have the iwi-firmware port
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Caching to disk
Last week I took the car in for an oil change. I usually wait for the work to be done, and while waiting, I head over the road to a Perkins for some breakfast. While there, I usually do a bit of coding. It is actually a good environment for this. The place isn’t full
Bacula 1.38.8 changes
Folks! Yes, I’m a big fan of Bacula. It’s a great backup solution. I recently became the port maintainer. I’d like to point out a few recent changes. Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING with regards to rcNG scripts. You must now add entries to /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.local to allow the Bacula daemons to start. You must read
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New Bacula ports!
I do not usually announce new ports here. But seeing as I am the maintainer of the new ports, I will take liberties. I have been using a great piece of backup software for about two years. Lately, I’ve been submitting updates for the port. Last week, a development version of the port was committed
Parsing the URL
When FreshPorts started, it used unique numbers to identify ports. This number was the primary key in the ports table. It was during a talk at a local LUG that I discovered how easy it would be to implement the solution you see now (e.g. sysutils/bacula-server. On the FreshPorts webserver, there is no sysutils directory.
Enumerating the ports
Tonight I started working on the Deleted port that wasn’t deleted problem tonight. The first step is to create a script that lists all the entries in the ports table. I took an existing script, altered it to meet my needs, and came up with this: #!/usr/bin/perl -w # # $Id: set-broken.pl,v 1.1.2.2 2004/11/27 13:54:09
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