Making backups with Bacula
When you manage servers and desktop stations there is a big question: ¿How to create reliable and secure backups? Well, the answeer is not very simple, specially because you need an automatic procedure with reability to restore information under danger situations.
I used some solutions like human backups, Cobian, tarballs and scripts but isn’t the best [...]
SCSA
Yesterday I become Sun Certified Solaris Administrator, on Solaris 10. I feel very happy about this, because it’s one of my year goals, also this certification allow me to work with this technologies on several enterprices. Right now I’ve passed 2 exams of 4, the networking and the security one will be passed along this [...]
Finally, end of the University
I suppost to be in San Andrés island and cover that trip with day 11 and 12, but nope. Today I’m in Bogotá because I have a very important activity: presentation to the juries of the grade work made with Ruri along a year. So, the last academic activity as pregrade on the Universidad Distrital [...]
The big tour day 10 – Pasto
Pasto, the sorprise city, well, people use to call like this. My destiny on day 10.
After a long long trip, well seems to me, and take transport to the city, triping for almost 30Kms. I arrive to Pasto, in Nariño deparment at colombian south side. All day I was trying to see the Galera’s volcano [...]
Security and Endian Firewall
Almost 2 years ago, Juan Baptiste talk to me about an open source software called Endian Firewall. This software it’s a Linux distribution created for security and networking management using it like an appliance.
I decide to use it on a “home server”, everything was perfect, but unfortunately I couldn’t use all his available features. I [...]
OpenApps Polux 2.6
Llega una nueva versión (actualización de OpenApps Castor) del disco de aplicaciones libres OpenApps. En esta ocasión introduciendo 9 nuevas aplicaciones, además de contar con las últimas actualizaciones de las mejores aplicaciones de software libre para sistemas operativos Microsoft Windows.
Por supuesto incluyendo documentación en español, libros electrónicos y dos apartados dedicados al Software Freedom Day [...]
Tardes Técnicas OpenSolaris
Starting on September 2nd, Colombia OpenSolaris User Group is going to start with some workshops and conferences:
Activity: Tardes técnicas de OpenSolaris
Starts on : Seotember 2nd
Finishing: November 11 th
Place: Tecnoparque nodo Bogotá (Calle 54 Nº 10 – 39.)
Topics:
OpenSolaris operative system (2 Sessions)
IPS package manager (1 Session)
ZFS file sytem (1 Session)
Virtualization on OpenSolaris (2 Sessions)
Debugging with Dtrace (2 Sessions)
Networks using [...]
Software Freedom Day Bogotá 2009 – Start your engines
Well, Software Freedom Day 2009 is here. A new year for this great event arround the Open Source Software, Free Software, Open Culture and Freedom philosophy. This is my second year on organization team and this year everything shows that is going to be a really big day in Bogotá because we have a lot [...]
Playing with a great server
Past weekend in Sun’s offices I was playing with a Sparc T1000 server, here some photographs:
A new beggining, OpenSolaris
Since one year ago, I have been knwoing about OpenSolaris Operative System and all the technologies related to OpenSolaris community project. Only until this July month I could take a course, It was about Solaris 10 Operative systems, which is Opensolaris base.
Along last 5 years I’ve been using Linux Operative Systems (Suse, Ubuntu, Debian, PCLinux [...]