bacula

OK, so I work in IT. I *should* do regular backups. I know what happens when disks die. Finally (after aaaages of delaying) I set up my external USB HDD to work with Bacula. Not a moment to soon, 3 days in and I get asked do I have a copy of X file from the PC at home. clickity click, restore, find file, select restore to different machine, run. and lo...

  Job:                    RestoreFiles.2009-04-30_14.27.48.19
  Restore Client:         shinybox-fd
  Start time:             30-Apr-2009 14:27:50
  End time:               30-Apr-2009 14:28:06
  Files Expected:         1
  Files Restored:         1
  Bytes Restored:         42,212
  Rate:                   2.6 KB/s
  FD Errors:              0
  FD termination status:  OK
  SD termination status:  OK
  Termination:            Restore OK

tada! scp'd and mailed. :-)

No. Just 'NO' OK!

I may be proved wrong on this, but why do a remake of *such* a classic, the Edge of Darkness. I mean, the late Bob Peck vs 'Mel Gibson ... a homicide detective for the Boston Police Department."

Ho Hum.
/OldFart

munin SNMP

Blogging this as the munin docs suck a bit -- lovely and technical but no HOWTOs

anyway I have an out of the box debian munin install on my epia box (hostname mythic) and I wanted to also plot the network traffic on my swisscom VDSL router (which is SNMPable)

Magic incantation to /etc/munin/munin.conf is:

[mythic.localnet]
address 127.0.0.1
use_node_name yes

[router.localnet]
address 127.0.0.1
use_node_name no

(where I have a decent /etc/hosts for localnet) and then do

munin-node-configure-snmp router.localnet | sh

New title

Decided to rename my blog in honour of Globus-gatekeeper

it's a grid thing....

X marks the spot

Passed a google streetview car on the way home tonight - it was heading southbound on the A1 at ~15:28.
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