Monthly Archives: September 2008

Restoring File From UFSdump Backup

Here’s what we did today on one of our Solaris box that is worth mentioning on this cool super system administrator’s blog ‘o mine! (Don’t you find it cool that SysAds are so funny?!) Anyhoo, today we re-jumpstarted a laboratory box because the ‘owner’ of it wants it back. Since we pretty much messed it … Continue reading

Building ZFS Mirrored File System Example

I’ve writted something about the Zeta file system before… It’s like some sort of an intro to the filesystem. This post will be the first of series of post in configuring ZFS on a test machine, a Sun-Fire-V240 running Solaris 10. # uname -a SunOS sedm3205 5.10 Generic_137111-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240 Anyhow, first topic will … Continue reading

Watch-Net and Watch-Net-All Diagnostics

This is the first post regarding the On-site training to make MNL SAs up to speed to support the company’s production servers. This week’s topic… building the server through Jumpstarting (yeah, solaris sparc servers). Watch-Net and Watch-Net-All Diagnostics The watch-net and watch-net-all diagnostics monitor Ethernet packets on the Ethernet interfaces connected to the system. Good … Continue reading

FireFTP | FireFox | Firefox Download | FireFox Tutorial

FireFTP is an FTP program that works within the Firefox Web browser. Well, Firefox is not actually a full-pledge program but a Firefox plugin or addon. The best thing about this ftp client is that it’s FREE! (Just like any other open source applications/software). If you’re not familiar with Firefox, it’s an open source web … Continue reading