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I have got a few test machines running different Linux distributions. All these installations want updates and a network installation source. While it’s possible to just use the repositories on the Internet, it’s a waste of bandwidth. I decided to install Spacewalk, the open source project sponsored by Red Hat on which the commercial Red [...]

bacula is a great backupsoftware, but sometimes the backup mustn’t use all the available bandwith. bacula itself has no speed limitations built in, but it is easy, to use trickle to accomplish this. I use trickle only on the clients. Installation get trickle yum install trickle now enter /etc/init.d/bacula-fd and change the line which starts [...]

Whether you are just learning how to write PHP or you are a veteran developer, you soon learn that there are things you do or situations that you encounter often. These 10 snippets provide a broad range of useful elements that you will often need to use as you write PHP applications. I hope you [...]

PostgreSQL comes with an easy to use export tool to export data from PostgreSQL database. In this tutorial, we show you how to export data from PostgreSQL to a file or csv file. 1. Connect PostgreSQL Use psql command to connect to the PostgreSQL database. $ psql -p 5433 -U dba dbname P.S 5433 is [...]

A free light weight jQuery plugin that allows you to create a custom drop down with images and description. What is so cool about this plugin! Adds images and description to otherwise boring drop downs. Allows JSON to populate the drop down options. Converts your HTML select element to ddSlick. Uses Minimum css and no [...]

wysihtml5 is an open source rich text editor based on HTML5 technology and the progressive-enhancement approach. It uses a sophisticated security concept and aims to generate fully valid HTML5 markup by preventing unmaintainable tag soups and inline styles. It’s fast and lightweight. It generates valid and semantic HTML5 markup. It uses class names instead of [...]

Gumby is a responsive and 960px-grid CSS grid framework that can be customized to work in every resolution with almost no effort. Its fluid-fixed layout self-optimizes the content for desktop, tablet and mobile resolutions and there is support for nested grids. Gumby CSS Framework Similar to Twitter Bootstrap, it includes a web UI Kit of [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]