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NetBackup through your firewall    [ Software ]

We've finally got a President-elect, and snow in Northern Virginia to boot! It's a happy time, Christmas is drawing near, and while presents appear 'round the tree and a fire blazes in the hearth, you're stuck at work.

There's a new Enterprise Backup Solution, and gosh darn it, the company is determined to make it back up everything from the mail servers to the CEO's nephew's PalmPilot. This, of course, involves getting through your firewall, and while you're able to put to rest some of the more outlandish ideas (doing remote backups of dialed-in employees' desktops to the DLT7000 tape library), you are going to have to back up those web and ftp servers in your DMZ to the backup servers inside your firewall.

Election count blues and VxVM    [ Software ]

It's been a month since my wife and I woke up, expecting to hear the results of the election on WETA 90.9 FM on the morning of November 8th 2000. No such luck.

I voted for Bush, despite being a liberal partisan during high school and college, because I can't get past Al Gore's personality. If there was a way to vote for the Democratic platform without electing Gore, I'd have done it.

Partisan opinions don't get much done when your root disk is incorrectly set up in Veritas Volume Manager, though. After the nice guy from Veritas came by to install FirstWatch and Volume Manager on our new firewall cluster, I looked closer at the configuration he left behind on the disks.