Photo gallery update
I finally got off my backside and imported, sorted and uploaded a pile of photos that had been sat on my cameras SD card for months. Here are the results… 
New year, New Theme
I’ve finally found a new WordPress theme that I like – So out with the old fixed-width(ish) browns & greens, and in are the new dynamic-width whites & blacks of the Atahualpa Theme.
I’ve also replaced the default banner images of fruit & trees with some banners snipped from my photo collection. They’ve turned out much better than I thought they would – Not bad for 5 mins work with Paint.NET
Nine Inch Nails – Lights In The Sky Over Sacramento
Some nice people over at Echoing The Sound have ripped the audio from the 400GB of HD concert video that Trent recently made available. Here's a local copy if anyone's interested...
Nine Inch Nails - Lights In The Sky Over Sacramento 2008
Google EPIC Fail
Looks like Google have cocked things up BIG TIME for a lot of people. Every search result is tagged as “harmful” so you can’t click through to your destination…
Update: Looks like someone at Google noticed. Everything's back to normal for me now...
Backing up Windows Server 2008 & Exchange Server 2007 With Bacula
Over the past couple of days I’ve been battling away trying to get the Win32 Bacula agent to back up my Windows Server 2008 System State and Exchange Server 2007 Information Store Databases.
Bacula currently doesn’t support VSS backups of a 64-Bit version of Windows Server 2008, so there’s a number of hoops you have to jump through to get even a semi-reliable System State & Exchange backup. For an Exchange backup we use the NTBACKUP binaries from Windows Server 2003 64-bit and for the System State we use the Windows Server 2008 wbadmin tools.
For both jobs we’ll use a couple of “Client Run Before Job” commands to trigger client-side scripts to run the client-side backup jobs…