Thou shalt not fail

Still doing battle with the damnable Backup Server.  Backup Exec is up and running now and it’s pulling and getting things to tape, but the drives in the server still like to flake on me.  I think using one of the older G3s for this process might not have been the best thing and eventually I’ll need to talk about upgrading it to a new(er) server.  I’ll post install instructions, based on what I do at least, for getting the covert, undercover agents working within the realm of Ubuntu.  It’s not all that bad in actuality but it seems pretty silly to use a license for a backup agent on a free OS.  Once I get more into Xen virtualization, have a decent load balancer and have multiple instances running of all major appliances I can then do backups of those at the virtualization server level and create snapshots using LVM.

Over coffee today there was a lot of discussion about frameworks, of which I wasn’t heavily involved since I’m the padawan learner in this area.  I’m also a bit put out by frameworks in that in our small shop the problem will be that there will be a new framework we’d like to work in every two years or so.   What there needs to be is framework for frameworks so they can easily talk to each other or some sort of mystic translator so you can take your Struts setup to Maypole for a year and then press the magic switch and have it shoot over Rails, maybe that’s not as far off as I think.

On another note I need to learn to swing the golf clubs at some point. The family golfs and I have an itchy feeling that there really is no other sport out there that’s better for “networking” than becoming a golfer. I suppose I could go the route of the horrible golfer and comic relief but my competitive spirit wouldn’t allow for that and I’d end spending far too much time and money that I don’t have on getting a little bit better so as not to be the rear of a foursome.

Side note: Macs are awesome except when it comes to vim behavior from server to server and the whole one button thing.  Give me two buttons and boot Mac-Roman for Latin-1.