Monthly Archives: September 2015

Seagate Backup Exec 14.x reuse improperly allocated tape

Let’s say you have a DLT drive and you are running a backup job like this:

Full

Incremental

Incremental

{eject}

Next tape

etc.

Every so often, due to power outages, mistakes etc. a tape may eject out of the drive. So you pop it back in but the job won’t run, it ejects the tape and asks for a tape that is over writeable and the current tape is already (previously) allocated and you can’t use it.

There is an easy solution for this, but you’ll need to re-run your full backup job.

How to address it:

  1. With the current tape out, cancel the current job, so that the jobs re-queue as queued in the future
  2. pop the tape in
  3. go to the Storage tab, click on the DLT drive
  4. pick INVENTORY -> Inventory Now
  5. Let that complete
  6. pick Erase -> Erase now
  7. restart the FULL job and let it complete.
  8. the next incremental job will then run as scheduled and you are back on track with the backup cycle.

 

WordPress 4.x auto updates under windows

If you want your WordPress install to do auto-updates (in a Windows Server based hosting setup), you need to do one simple step.

 

Edit the hosts file.

Put a local IP in there for the domain name of the site.

Save the changes.

 

Example:

10.5.5.5  www.whatever-the-site-is.com

Re-log into WordPress and go to dashboard-updates and in there it should tell you “future updates will be automatically applied”

Why is all of this needed?  WordPress uses PHP CRON and that is reliant on the server being able to find the local website.  Therefore it is necessary to put a hard-coded IP in the hosts file so the CRON job can “see” the wordpress site.  Without the hosts entry the website will resolve to the external IP of the site, and you will have an unreachable IP issue and auto-update won’t work.