Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-01 Thread craig001
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 06:21:06PM +0100, Craig Butler wrote: Bacula is your friend, tried and tested The guy is making nice reliable dump(8)s of his file systems. He doesn't need to waste time and energy with yet another thing. Dump and restore work just fine, are part of the system and

Re: Programs loading but sitting in limbo whilst not displaying

2009-01-27 Thread craig001
Im running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE AMD64 KDE4.1.4 and recently for no reason i can think of when i try and load FireFox or Thunderbird, according to my process list, the applications are running, but yet they dont ever show up in KDE to use//liaise with. I have even started them from command line

Re: fileserver questions

2008-08-28 Thread craig001
Hello All, I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be used also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB drives and was wondering if i should stick with ufs, or migrate to zfs. i've read about the zfs many times on the freebsd wiki, and it seems