How fast will it go? Can it get me over her quickly?
How long is it supposed to take for a 6.5 TB backup to happen? That's the core of this post. Every thing I could find…
Read more →Documenting glue code:
Making everything work with everything else.
Read my "self-documenting" rants about how I keep gluing systems together to get them to do what I want them to do.
Restored her! I barely taped her!
Well I found a fun discovery in the last couple of days. Turns out that I was not backing up what I thought I was…
Read more →10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4.5, ...4.5, ...4.5
Well it's been a couple of weeks of using Bacularis on a separate machine, and its going well. I think I finally stabilised on about…
Read more →Ready! Set! .....Detour!
Well, this has been an interesting couple of weeks. I recently got a bunch of time off that was use/lose, so I burned some of…
Read more →And We're stalling, We're stalling
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…
Read more →New Year, New Tape!
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!…
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