Bacula – the backup solution
More and more people are learning about Bacula. Here is a little survey I did at LISA06.
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 …
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?
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 …
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 …
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 …