My jenkins builds are taking too long mainly due the lack of memory. I mainly use jenkins to verify that my software work on different operation systems (GNU/Linux distributions / *BSD / Solaris).
Looking for a solution that is still affordable I ended up with building a dual Xeon workstation. CPU and memory comes from www.ebay.be
In my previous post, I setup on my PostgresSQL FreeBSD jail, In this post we continue with the bacaula server.
In this post we will continue with the database connection (Catalog) we’ll go the extra mile 1,609344 km and encrypt the catalog connection with ssl. Why? We encrypt.. because we can!
Bacula Director
The Bacula Director is daemon that runs in the backgroud that control all backup operations.
Bacula Console
The Bacula console is an administrator program that allows an system administrator to control the Bacula director.
Bacula File
The Bacula File is a backup client install on the backup client.
Bacula Storage
The backup media.
Catalog
The Catalog is the index of the backups. Bacula supports three types of index databases mySQL ( mariaDB), PostgreSQL and SQLite
Bacula monitor
A Bacula monitor service is a program that allows the system administrator to cerify the status of the bacula Directors, Bacula File Daemons and Bacula Storage Daemons.
I do take backups; my current solution are couple of shell script wrapper around dump/zfs send/btrfs send/rsync which is a mess. So decided give bacula a try
I use ezjail to manage my FreeBSD jails. PostgresSQL is my favorite database and will use this database as the backend for bacula and will use this database as the backend for bacula. I want to move all my databases to 1 FreeBSD jail this should make the easier to create reliable database backup in the further. For this reason we’ll setup 2 FreeBSD jails 1 for the database and 1 for bacula.
You’ll find my journey of installing PostgreSQL on a FreeBSD jail. In another blog post we will continue with the installation of bacula.
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I finally found time to complete the installation of my Libreboot laptop
I decided to give Parabola GNU/Linux a try as my daily driver to get a fully Free Software Laptop/tablet.
After Parabola GNU/Linux is booted verify that you have internet access if the network card is support and dhcp is enabled on you network you should get a network address.
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I got a ThinkPad x60 (tablet version) from ebay.be to install libreboot on it.
I tried to compile libreboot on Debian and Parabola GNU/Linux but both failed, compling Libreboot on Trisquel 7 works fine so I’ll use Trisquel to replace the BIOS with libreboot.
I’m not sure that I’ll use Trisquel 7 as my daily driver since it is a bit outdated…
I might go with Debian Strech without the non-free repositories to get a fully Free Software Laptop/tablet. I’ll need to replace the Intel wifi adapter since this requires non-free firmware.
You’ll find a small howto install libreboot on a Thinkpad X60 below.
The latest version of libreboot isn’t available via a binary distribution so I decided to build it from source.
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