Archive for the ‘The FreeBSD Diary’ Category
Fixing bad sectors found by smartd
Posted on August 20th, 2011 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
smartd found the error, now let's fix it.
grep, sed, and awk for fun and profit
Posted on August 8th, 2011 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
Using tools for parsing log files
Bacula – copying a job; doing it better
Posted on February 5th, 2011 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
One copy job is good. Three copy jobs is much better!
ZFS benchmark
Posted on January 9th, 2011 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
I have more RAM, how will this affect things?
Bacula – copying a job
Posted on December 17th, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
Backups have been going to disk. Now it's time to copy those backups to tape.
Bacula: RunBeforeJob on Storage Daemon
Posted on November 25th, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
Usually, this is only for Client or Director. We go the extra distance here...
Testing the DLT
Posted on November 17th, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
Got tape? Got drive? Got errors?
DLT labels
Posted on November 16th, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
Tapes without labels in a library should not happen
DLT drive replacement
Posted on November 4th, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
Out with the old, in with the new!
Replacing a DLT drive – selecting the right drive
Posted on November 3rd, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
The existing drive is dead, let's replace it.
NRPE: Unable to read output – The followup
Posted on October 15th, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
Teamwork is often the best work
NRPE: Unable to read output
Posted on October 4th, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
In a sudden flash of inspiration, I realised I could replace some cronjobs and emails with a Nagios plugin.
ZFS: promote – for getting rid of snapshots, but not the data
Posted on September 22nd, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
After promoting, with the goal of copying data, it's useful to promote in order to get rid of snapshots.
ZFS: upgrade
Posted on September 20th, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
Somethings the file system lags behind the operating system and needs to be upgraded.
3Ware Nagios plugin
Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
I liked it, but I wanted more
Where is my SCSI card?
Posted on August 30th, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
Things are hidden right before your eyes
cssh – cluster ssh
Posted on August 20th, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
Sometimes you need more than one
ZFS: Resizing your zpool
Posted on August 4th, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
Got space? Need more?
ZFS: do not give it all your HDD
Posted on August 1st, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
Sometimes, holding out is the best decision.
Monitoring your HDD using SMART and Nagios
Posted on March 13th, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
Checking your HDD!
