I spent most of my time this morning integrating rrdtool into GPB Backup, the open source backup solution I’m developing.
RRDTool is an open source data logging and graphing system developed by Tobias Oetiker. It creates single file databases that can be filled with pretty much any data.
I integrated an rrdtool script into the main GPB [...]

After more tweaking and fine tuning my rsync powered backups are operational! The old Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 has been replaced by Ubuntu Server and all is well again
One thing that set me back was the discovery of the fake raid chip in the servers. Yeah that’s right, fake raid So [...]

I’ve been working the past two days on fixing two neglected servers at my job. The servers are part of our backup solution and are ‘maintained’ by an external company which we’ll call Company C. Read on for a rant about server maintenance and a company that thinks I’m an idiot they can mess with.