Sun StorEdge 6120 password reset

Got a few Sun StorEdge 6120 without any password (the shipped one was not right). To access the 6120 I have to reset the password first. Here is a way how I accomplished it. First shutdown the 6120 and disconnect all power cables. Then use a screw driver to open the screw that holds the U1 controller on the back of the 6120. Then pull the U1 controller out of the 6120. In the top right corner there are a few jumpers gathered to J10. Use a jumper to connect the pins 14 and 16 like the image:

Using bacula with mhvtl

In a prior article I showed you how to setup a virtual tape library with mhvtl. I configured a MSL600 with 48 tapes. This device I want to use with bacula now. My current setup is the bacula director running on a Solaris 10 X86 machine, but the mhvtl is running on a Slackware X86 machine. To continue I have to install the bacula storage daemon on the Slackware machine first. To install the storage daemon you have to build the complete bacula software. Download a copy of the source and store them under /usr/src. Then extract the source package and change into the new directory: 

LDAP backup with bacula

To backup your LDAP with bacula is very easy. You only need to create a script that exports the DIT in a file. Then create a job that backups this file. To start go into the bacula configuration directory and define a new job:

Using a Sun StorEdge D240 as bacula storage

Yesterday I got a Sun StorEdge D240. Completely with cables, SCSI card etc. The D240 has two 36GB harddisks, a DDS4 tape drive and a DVD-ROM. Perfect to use it in my bacula server.
After installing the SCSI card and connecting the D240 I booted my Solaris 10 X86 machine and installed all devices (I'm using the Split Bus configuration). To install the necassery devices run the devfsadm command and use the iostat command to check the devices:

Add a new bacula client

To add a new client to bacula you have to let the director know the new client first. Go into the bacula configuration directory and add the client to the client resource: 

Creating a new bacula job

This time I want you to show how to create a new job within bacula to backup your files. In this article I will setup a job to backup /etc from my master server which is very easy. To do this go into the bacula configuration directory and edit the jobs resource file to add the new job: 

Using a stand alone tape with bacula

This time I want you to show how to use a stand alone tape drive with bacula. I have a couple of DDS-3 tape drives which all work with Solaris 10 X86 and bacula. Before you begin you need to know the device file for your tape drive. Under Solaris use iostat:

# iostat -En
...
rmt/0            Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SONY     Product: SDT-9000         Revision: 0400 Serial No: 03/05/98
...

Basic bacula installation and configuration

With this article I want you to show how to install bacula from source and how to create a basic configuration. The topics in this artice will be the following:

Install bacula from source under Solaris 10 x86
Create the bacula database under Slackware Linux 13.1
Configure the bacula director
Configure the bacula storage daemon
Configure the bacula file daemon
First start
Configure the bacula console
Run a backup job
Run a restore job

mhvtl - Virtual Tape Library

A few days ago I discovered a pretty cool software for creating a virtual tape library. You can use the virtual tape library as a real library with the robot, drives, tapes etc. Best of all: the tapes are flat files within their own directory. That means that you can setup a HP MSL6000 tape library with 4 drives and 52 tapes and keeping the tape size at 50MB. With this article I want you to show the following:

Install mhvtl from source
Configure a virtual HP MSL6000 tape library
Perform a simple backup
mhvtl Web Gui

Slackware package and patch server

With this article I want you to show how to setup a package and patch server for Slackware. When you have multiple Slackware servers running and you need to install updates then every single server has to download each update from the internet: