Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-01 Thread craig001
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 06:21:06PM +0100, Craig Butler wrote: > >> Bacula is your friend, tried and tested >> > > The guy is making nice reliable dump(8)s of his file systems. > He doesn't need to waste time and energy with yet another thing. > > Dump and restore work just fine, are part of the s

Re: Programs loading but sitting in limbo whilst not displaying

2009-01-27 Thread craig001
> Im running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE AMD64 KDE4.1.4 and recently for no reason i can > think of when i try and load FireFox or Thunderbird, according to my process > list, the applications are running, but yet they dont ever show up in KDE to > use//liaise with. I have even started them from command li

Re: fileserver questions

2008-08-28 Thread craig001
> Hello All, > I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be > used also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB > drives and was wondering if i should stick with ufs, or migrate to zfs. > i've read about the zfs many times on the freebsd wiki, and it se