Linux compute and fileserver IT Administrator
bacula
Environment notes: our setup includes a NeoT48 LTO8 tape library with two tape drives and a PostgreSQL-18 catalog for Bacula 15.0.3. NeoT48 Tape library tips # find tape library /dev/sg* path. should show up as "mediumx" lsscsi -g # get a status listing of tapes in
python
Here's a useful function I find myself rewriting quite often when I want to automate some IO-bound task that benefits from async concurrency (not quite true parallelism, since CPU-bound tasks would still ultimately run sequentially with this code). import asyncio import os import time MAX_SUBPROCESSES
zfs
ZFS can utilize aliases to present disks in the status listings, making it easier to identify which disks are having issues.