Documenting glue code:

So after many attempts and much frustration. I've concluded that if i want to use more then one tape to back things up, I'll need…

First make sure that the "qlini_mode" is NOT set to "Disabled", preferably its set to "exclusive" . you can do that in "/etc/modprobe.d/qla2xxx_scst.conf" Second Load…

Well, I finally got it, I flipped enough switches, and "plugged" and "unplugged" enough connections to get my NAS server to see the tape library!…

Well, this did not go as planned. I had hoped to get a post out about having successfully got the fibre channel up and running.

We live in the era of the cloud - cloud computing, cloud storage, cloud backup, cloud everything. Once I was fine with this, as it meant…

So I've been thinking about this post for a while now. Partially because this blog started out as a "how hard can it be?", after…