OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users of the Internet rely on. Users of telnet, rlogin, and ftp may not realize that their password is transmitted across the Internet unencrypted, but it is. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. The [...]
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:36:11 +0000

Your Ad Here In CentOS 6.2 minimal server installation, SELinux is set to enable. To disabled the SELinux, please change “SELINUX=enforcing” to “SELINUX=disabled”. This will disable SELinux on your next reboot. [root@centos6 ~]# vi /etc/selinux/config # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: [...]
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:41:21 +0000

Your Ad Here CentOS 6 Channel Bonding allows administrators to bind multiple network interfaces together into a single channel using the bonding kernel module and a special network interface called a channel bonding interface. Channel bonding enables two or more network interfaces to act as one, simultaneously increasing the bandwidth and providing redundancy. Channel Bonding [...]
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:42:52 +0000

BackupPC is a fantastic backup solution for your end-user systems. However, out of the box, logging in is done by a local account, and the connection is over plain HTTP. My network uses Active Directory, so I prefer to authenticate using that where I can. Likewise, while this is local traffic, I prefer to use [...]
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:27:56 +0000

After all, it was not necessary creating two pools. I’ve managed to use both drivers at same time (and a single pool) – backups are really faster now. I set up the following flag, as “*no*”, in the JobDefs resource (bacula-dir.conf): Prefer Mounted Volumes = <yes|no> If the Prefer Mounted Volumes directive is set to [...]
Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:25:11 +0000

Well this one is just so I remember how to do this, I keep forgetting the exact syntax and have to look it up on other sites, so if I put it on mine I know where it is…. in the shell find . -type f -exec grep -i “phrase to find” {} ; -print [...]
Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:54:19 +0000

Your Ad Here Reportula is a web based tool which provide you an high level summary on your Bacula jobs and your Bacula Server Statistics. Uses Codeigniter Framework. Features Display last jobs status Display volumes usage by pool Full supported MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sqlite databases. Show Jobs which executed with errors last day, week, month [...]
Wed, 04 May 2011 14:32:57 +0000

Your Ad Here Currently i have one Linux server that hosts about 200 clients backups, the storage size is about 1 PentaByte. I want to share some experiences about Bacula Backups system  in large deployment enviroment. 1. Use PostgresSQL instead of Mysql. The database size is smaller The Index and Reindex task finishs in less [...]
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:20:48 +0000

Your Ad Here How to use the plugin with CodeIgniter Controller : load->helper(array('form', 'url')); } public function index() { $this->load->view('form', array('error' => '')); } public function do_upload() { $config['upload_path'] = FCPATH.'uploads/'; $config['allowed_types'] = 'gif|jpg|png|jpeg'; $config['max_size'] = '36000'; $config['max_width'] = '10240'; $config['max_height'] = '76800'; $this->load->library('upload', $config); if ( ! $this->upload->do_upload()) { $error = array('error' => $this->upload->display_errors()); [...]
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:02:40 +0000

You finished your brand new application, everything is working like a charm. Users are coming and using your web. Everybody is happy. Then, suddenly, a big burst of users kills your MySQL server and your site is down. What went wrong? How can you prevent it? Here are some tips on MySQL Performance which will [...]
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:45:43 +0000

1. Install Remmi Repository wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm rpm -Uvh remi-release-5*.rpm epel-release-5*.rpm 2. Install Postgresql yum --enablerepo=remi install postgresql84 3. Edit the start-up script root@host# vi /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql 4.Change the PGDATA and PGLOG variable to wherever you want (changes in red)… # Set defaults for configuration variables PGENGINE=/usr/bin PGPORT=5432 PGDATA=/path/to/pgdata if [ -f "$PGDATA/PG_VERSION" ] && [...]
Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:31:42 +0000

Linux desktop user generally uses small hard disk and partition, but on server you need a large partition. For example, you cannot create 4TB partition size (RAID based) using fdisk command. It will not allow you to create a partition that is greater than 2TB. In this tutorial, you will learn more about creating Linux [...]
Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:33:47 +0000

Over the past couple of hours I’ve been battling away trying to get the Win32 Bacula agent to back up my Windows Server 2008 System State. We’ll use “Client Run Before Job” commands to trigger client-side scripts to run the client-side backup jobs… System state backups copy the C:WindowsSystem32cmd.exe to C:Backup Create a text file [...]
Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:09:52 +0000

Hi, I spent to 5 hours figuring out to solve this Bacula Install Client on X64 Linux Systems “error while loading shared libraries: libbacfind-5.0.3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory” To Solve this problem you just need to add “–libdir=/usr/lib64″ to yout configure string when compiling Bacula from Source. CFLAGS=”-g -Wall” [...]
Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:35:38 +0000

Bacula has i nice feature in bconsole. It he ability to add costumized sql query to perform some nice consulting infomation about volumes, jobs ids, files etc. How to enable this ? Just add the folowing code to your bacula file query.sql # This file contains sample queries that you can possibly use in # [...]
Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:03:39 +0000

You can create i view from this query, so you can get the filenames. create view files as SELECT CONVERT( Media.VolumeName USING utf8) as Volume , JobMedia.JobId as JobId , CONVERT( Filename.Name USING utf8) as FileName FROM ( ( bacula.JobMedia JobMedia INNER JOIN bacula.File File ON (JobMedia.JobId = File.JobId)) INNER JOIN bacula.Filename Filename ON (File.FilenameId [...]
Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:00:47 +0000

Performance Issues Indexes : I added the following indexes: CREATE INDEX File_JobId_idx ON File(JobId); CREATE INDEX File_PathId_idx ON File(PathId); CREATE INDEX File_FilenameId_idx ON File(FilenameId); CREATE INDEX Path_PathId_idx ON Path(PathId); CREATE INDEX Job_FileSetId_idx ON Job(FileSetId); CREATE INDEX Job_ClientId_idx ON Job(ClientId); CREATE INDEX File_FilenameIdPathId_idx ON File(FilenameId,PathId); This reduced dbcheck time from >24 hours to a few *seconds*. [...]
Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:30:17 +0000

Suppose the Disk is /dev/sdb, the second scsi disk, fdisk /dev/sdb create as many partitions as you need using command n Label them with command “t” as “8e” for making it Linux LVM Write and Exit with the command w. Format the partitions you require using mkfs command mkfs -t ext3 -c /dev/sdb1 LVM commands [...]
Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:54:34 +0000

If you have been following my postings over the last year, you will have read about my attempts to migrate to Linux. Some have been partially successful, others have been unmitigated disasters. I have heard comments from Linux is for smart people to You are right when I comment that the installation process should not be as hard as it sometimes is.
Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:45:38 +0000

There's no avoiding it, if you're using a computer (or just about anything else) the operating system needs to be maintained. This article addresses Linux maintenance issues and techniques, along with things you would expect to deal with, coming from a Windows background.

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:34:19 +0000

The Linux community is massive. There are lots of places to go for help, enough so that sorting out which places to try first can be the tough part. Here's a handy guide to where to go when you need help with Linux.
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:54:06 +0000

One thing that can make people feel a bit nervous about moving from Windows to Linux is games. As much as everyone talks about productivity software and Web browsing, let's face it, everyone likes to have a little fun.

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:46:37 +0000

Since you're starting from the Windows world before moving to Linux, you no doubt have files on a Windows drive somewhere that you'll want to access from Linux.

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:38:46 +0000

Which do you spend more time interacting with: your operating system, or your software? It's possible to get too pedantic with the answer as ultimately everything comes back to the operating system, but really, the answer is your software.

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:37:35 +0000

The following list is derived from my personal experience, both as a former Linux newbie, and in the dealings I have had with other Linux newbies. Linux newbies often have a lot of misconceptions about what Linux is, and about how they should learn it. These statements are meant to contradict some of those misconceptions.

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:07:13 +0000

Have you ever wanted to try Linux without having to make the commitment of installing it on your laptop or desktop? Believe it or not, giving Linux a try without installing is a snap thanks to the concept of the bootable distribution.

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:53:05 +0000

While all Linux distributions are different, they ultimately all go through a similar install process. Rather than walking you through this process step-by-step like you could find in the distribution's documentation, this page addresses the issues you're most likely to encounter and recommendations for solving them.

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:03:40 +0000

The time has never been better to try Linux. With improved hardware compatibility, excellent software applications, and superior stability and security, there's really nothing holding you back from giving Linux a try.

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:22:04 +0000