BackupExec 2012 (14) on newer Linux

Byetzion 06/08/201329/11/2016

In particular – Oracle UEK, which “claims” to be 2.6.39-xxx, but is actually 3.0.x with a lower version number. Several misbehaviors (or differences) of version 3 can be found. One of them is related to BackupExec. The service would not start on OEL6 with UEK kernels. The cause of it is an incorrect use of a function – getIfAddrs. Everything can be seen in this amazing post. The described patch works, at least to allow the service to start. Check out the comments for some insights about how to identify the correct call.

I am re-posting it here, so it can be found for Oracle Universal Enterprise Kernel (UEK) as well.

General Hardware | Linux

RHEL 4 32bit on Tyan Thunder K8QE

Byetzion 09/09/2006

It’s sort of a relationship between myself and this Tyan. Same server, changing demands. This time, we’ve had to install on this server RHEL4 32bit. Net-installing RHEL4 Update 3 was impossible. See here, so we’ve installed it from CDs (didn’t have PCI-X network card handy). When booting the server, it showed us only a single…

Linux

Installation boot of RHEL8 (network settings)

Byetzion 10/11/202127/01/2023

This blog is my extended memory, and as such, its task is to remind me things I tend to forget, saving me the time required to search them again. So here is another one of these things. The network settings syntax for RHEL8/OEL8 or any of their compatible systems, when you want to pass these…

Linux | Scripting/Programming

mime_decode-1 FAILED: Can’t locate object method “seek” via package “File::Temp ” at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/MIME/Parser.pm line 816

Byetzion 06/01/2008

This is the error message I have seen in my Linux+Postfix+Amavisd-new system. Not only that, but Amavis has kept a copy of each message in its tmp directory, which reduced my /var size to nothing quite rapidly. amavis[21189]: (21189-01) (!)PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-200 80103T051116-21189 Doesn’t sound too good. Partial search in google has produced the…

Disk Storage | Linux

Better iostat visibility of ZFS vdevs

Byetzion 04/07/202111/03/2023

All ZFS users are familiar with ‘zpool iostat’ command, however, it is not easily translated into Linux ‘iostat’ command. Using large pools with many disks will result in a mess, where it’s hard to identify which disk is which, and going to a translation table from time to time, to identify a suspect slow disk….

Linux | Virtualization

XenServer “Internal error: Failure… no loader found”

Byetzion 24/10/2009

It has been long since I had the time to write here. I have recently been involved more and more with XenServer virtualization, as you might see in the blogs, and following a solution to a rather common problem, I have decided to post it here. The problem: When attempting to boot a Linux VM…

Clusters | Disk Storage | Oracle

Easily Replacing an AFD Disk in ASM DiskGroup

Byetzion 20/03/202320/03/2023

When using OracleASM in normal or high redundancy, a failed disk is nothing to be concerned with. However, when using AFD, there are several additional actions you need to take into account in order to replace the disk quickly and easily. It is imperative to understand that when using AFD, there are some unavoidable tasks…

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