Daylight Bug Time

The patches I applied to my various systems seem to have all worked for now.  The only Daylight Savings Time bug I've seen has been with NetBackup 6.0MP4.  For some reason, I had some backups run about 7 times last night, over and over and over again.  Fortunately they were differential backups, so they were very small and fast, and didn't use a lot of tape.  Apparently I'm not alone, and since we all experienced this for the first time on the same day, we're guessings it's related to the time change.

A worthy cause

My friend Missy is running in the Valley of Gold Half Marathon, an upcoming fundraising race for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  Besides those two diseases, they also raise money to fight Multiple Myeloma, the blood cancer my dad was diagnosed with a year ago.  If you have 5 bucks you wouldn't miss, drop a bit in her coffers, as it's going to a good cause.

Ultrium 4, where art thou?

We're starting to near capacity on our tape library at work, and I'm itching to buy a new system to augment it.  Ultrium 4 (or LTO 4) is right around the corner, but no vendor can tell me yet when they're going to have the drives.  Ultrium 3 is available now, but if I can wait a few months to double the capacity of my library and increase the speed of my drives by 50%, I'm inclined to wait.

We've been using Ultrium 2 for the last four years, and while it has worked well, a full backup of the servers I do backups for is now approaching 30 tapes, and storing and moving them is getting to be a pain.

First one to show up on my door with an LTO 4 library gets the purchase order...

Terrorist Moose

As if RPGs weren't enough of a threat to our helicopters, now we have to worry about suicidal moose attackers taking them down.

Dear News Media

Dear News Media,

No one outside her family gives a damn about Anna Nicole Smith's burial location, or the fight over her corpulent plastic corpse.  Please stop covering it.

Thank you.