Re: What's an easy way to replace a drive?

2005-03-24 Thread Nicholas Basila
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Nicholas Basila writes: You can back up to tape and restore in single user mode. If /var and /tmp aren't too big, you could boot into single user mode, mount /usr mount -r /var(just to be safe) mount -r /tmp and create tar balls or even use dump to file (use

Re: bacula with onstream configuration for FreeBSD

2005-03-24 Thread Nicholas Basila
Noah wrote: Hi there, can somebody please suggest a configuration for bacula use on a FreeBSD 4.9 machine? anybody got this running well? tips for initial onstream setup are welcome. cheers, Noah Are you having trouble with bacula in the ports tree? I have it running on 4.11 with no

Re: What's an easy way to replace a drive?

2005-03-23 Thread Nicholas Basila
Anthony Atkielski wrote: The continuing problems I'm having with my SATA drives seem to center on only one of the two drives, /dev/ad10, and since both drives are identical (Western Digital WD1200JD 120-GB SATA drives), this is a good indicator that the drive itself might be failing. So I've

Re: /usr out of space

2004-05-20 Thread Nicholas Basila
On Thursday 20 May 2004 02:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aloha Nicholas Thanks for responding. I had just received a hint about growfs and while reading that I found out about newfs. I have indeed performed the newfs and can now mount /dev/da1s4f. Would it be possible to use growfs to add

Re: /usr out of space

2004-05-19 Thread Nicholas Basila
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 08:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I tried using bsdlabel without any options I got an error. So I then did a bsdlabel -w da1s4 and the a bsdlabel -e da1s4 and edited what I believe are the correct numbers for this slice. Now when I do the bsdlabel da1s4 with no

Re: Backup Server

2003-12-28 Thread Nicholas Basila
On Friday 26 December 2003 12:30 pm, samy lancher wrote: Hello all, I have a 4.5 FreeBSD server. It is our Email, web and database server. I would like to setup a backup server so that when the main server goes down the backup server takes over its job. Could some one please tell me the best

Re: What logs etc do I need tocheckfrequently?

2003-12-28 Thread Nicholas Basila
On Sunday 28 December 2003 10:27 am, Robert Huff wrote: Joachim Dagerot writes: I realise you are right. The thing is that this is a home system and I have (had!) around 230 GB of data that was non-replicable. I am not aware of a deasent backup system that can handle that amount of

Re: Backup Server

2003-12-28 Thread Nicholas Basila
On Sunday 28 December 2003 03:26 pm, Matt Juszczak wrote: I read somewhere about the AMANDA project. Is that any good for a situation like this? Well, Amanda is certainly good for the backup of the data. The main site's here: http://www.amanda.org/ and Curtis Preston put part of his O'Reilly

Compaq DL380 ciss error with FreeBSD 5.1

2003-10-24 Thread Nicholas Basila
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE on a Compaq DL380 with a built in RAID controller. When I boot or shutdown the machine, I get these errors: da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: COMPAQ RAID 5 VOLUME OK Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 135.168MB/s transfers da0: 104996MB

Re: DHCP message that I don't understand

2003-03-10 Thread Nicholas Basila
On Monday 10 March 2003 04:59 pm, Tom Parquette wrote: I'm setting up DHCP for the first time on 5.0-CURRENT. In the end, I would like to get DDNS working. I set up the dhcpd.conf and it appears to be issuing addresses correctly. My old W98 laptop appears to have gotten the right