I realized about 20 minutes ago that I forgot to weigh in this morning, so I guess I will have to wait until next week to see how I am doing. Here’s hoping for good results next week.
Category Archives: Family
This is a Good Sign
This seems to be going well; I weighed in at 288.8 this morning which is a drop of 1.4 lbs. I am sure it is due to all the walking I did while out in Philadelphia, which is just more of an indication that I need to find ways to be (more) active.It’s not even the being active that’s the problem, it’s finding the time and motivation that is the hardest part for me. -sigh-
That’s Annoying
So the DR failed… The part that bothers me the most is we are not sure why. For some reason we were not seeing the restore speeds that we expected. Building the TSM server was easy, and is almost becoming routine. I had all the tapes in the library before the system was ready, once the system was properly configured and handed over to me I had TSM rebuilt and up and running in under four hours. I had a few issues that I quickly troubleshot and got resolved, but we still didn’t stream from the tapes as fast as we have in the past. At one point I realized the restore wasn’t streaming from multiple sessions; after i fixed that we got some increase in restore speed, but nothing like we expected. I know the nature of this data (millions of small files) tends to cause slow backups and restores, but we have seen much better speeds in the past. I know i will be pondering this for some time to come.
Missed Weigh In
Missed weigh in this morning due to being at DR in Philadelphia. Though I have been doing a lot of walking the last few days, and will continue to do more for the next few days (it’s a good distance from the hotel to the DR site), I think I am going to write this week off and start back up next Sunday. On a side note it turns out I was wrong, the test ends at 8am on Monday not sure why I thought it ended so much later.
A Lost Weekend
Out in Philadelphia for another DR test, the only downside is that I am going to lose a weekend for this one, but at least Melissa was able to come out with me. She’s never seen Philadelphia so today I showed her around the historic district (Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, etc) but for the next few days she will be on her own. I’m not worried about the test, it shouldn’t be an issue, just time consuming. Today was a good day, though I am real sore from all the walking, not to use to that anymore. Tomorrow the test starts at 8am and goes through Monday at four. Sometimes I think these are a waste of time as many think they are not a true DR test, but that is a discussion for another time; now it is time for bed, need to be rested for the morning.
It’s Here, It’s Here!
The new bed is here! Nothing like coming home from work and finding a brand new bed all set up in my bedroom just waiting for me! Gardner White delivered our new bed today, and thankfully Melissa had the day off so she could stay home to accept the delivery. They took down the old bed and took it away (except the frame) and put up the new bed in its place. I didn’t realize just how big this bed was going to be nor how high; i can sit on the edge and my feet don’t touch the floor! I can’t wait to go to bed tonight! I really hope this bed helps my back.
[Update 12/01/2009]
Oh man, that was a great night sleep. After laying in bed for a few minutes last night and allowing the new pillow top to conform to my lower back and support it properly, my back pain went away. This morning was the first one in a very long time that I woke up without back pain! I really hope this continues!
The Battle Continues
Tiffany called me today and asked if I wanted to start doing the weight watchers program with her. We would be each others group support and we can talk to each other about how we are doing and hopefully lose some weight without having to pay for the classes. So starting today I am restarting my weekly weigh ins and hopefully some weight loss. I weighed in this morning at a disappointing 290.2 pounds. Let’s hope I can do some good and lose some pounds!
A Long Overdue Checkup
Went to the doctor today for my first physical in over two years, all in all it went surprisingly well. As usual I need to lose some weight, but I guess now it is starting to show in ways other than just my weight. My blood pressure is a little high, not high enough to warrant medication, but high enough to mention that I should lose a few pounds. In addition I need to go have some blood drawn as the doctor wants to have my cholesterol checked, as he thinks that might be high too (makes me wonder about eating that burger at Heart Attack Grill, but it sure was good). I guess I will have to wait and see what the results actually are.
[Update: 11/25/09]
Got a letter from my doctor with the results of my lab work. Turns out everything but my cholesterol is fine. Here’s what the numbers look like (and the notes from the doctor):
- Cholesterol 183 (Up from 148)
- HDL Chol 45
- Triglycerid 143
- LDL Chol 109 (Up from 69)
Doctor wants me to continue trying to lose weight and getting exercise to try to correct these issues. Guess I need to regain focus and really try to lose weight.
Last Day of Class
Finished the NetApp Fundamentals class today, all in all it was a good class. We covered a lot of information but not with a lot of depth. Knowing what I have lined up at work I think it would be great if I could take the CIFS class, however that is another three day class and I am not sure if work will pay for that. I’ll keep it in mind as the Healthcare filers will be doing some tricky work with CIFS and I know it would be beneficial. We finished class early today (around noon) so I thought about going to the Grand Canyon, but with it being 240 miles away the time doesn’t work out to make it worth trying. I thought about trying to catch an earlier flight out, but sitting stand by potentially until my scheduled flight tomorrow doesn’t sound to appealing either. It was nice being out here though, the weather was perfect and from what I have been told it’s like this eight months out of the year, the other four are really hot, but I think I could handle it, after all that’s what air conditioning is for right?
java netapp.cmds.jsh
One of the problems I have with the NetApp filers is the inability to use simple UNIX commands like cp (copy) and mv (move) even though their base OS is Linux. Often times I have needed to use these commands to make backup copies of files I need to modify but have not been able to. There are a number of ways to get around this problem:
- export and mount /vol/vol0 to a UNIX host and use native UNIX commands
- CIFS share /vol/vol0 to a Windows host and use Native windows commands
- create a snapshot of /vol/vol0 and use the Data ONTAP native rdfile and wrfile command
Of course there are problems with these as well.
- In order to make use of exporting and mounting the volume I would require access to a UNIX host with the appropriate permissions to perform these actions; which often enough I do not have access to.
- In order to use a CIFS share the filer needs to have a CIFS license in place and have access to a windows system that has access to the filer; and at least one of my filers does not have a CIFS license, and on the ones that do I may not have access to a system that can map the CIFS share on the given network.
- the Data ONTAP rdfile and wrfile commands are useful, but dangerous. wrfile, which allows you to write to a file, first destroys the file (removes all data from it) then opens it for you to add to. This means if you forget to use rdfile first to see the contents of the file, then you have just erased the file. Correcting this can be as simple as pulling the original file from a snapshot (if you remembered to take one) or as complicated as needing to create the file from scratch.
The solution to all these problems is to use an undocumented java shell on the filer which grants the ability to use cp, mv and other commands.
Here is an example of the command to drop to the java shell and a list of the commands available:
filer01>java netapp.cmds.jsh
jsh> ?
Java Shell commands:
cd [directory]
pwd
ls [-l]
cat file
rm file [file2 …]
cp src dest
mv src dest
ps [-l]
kill <-1|-9> threadName
gc
classpath [pathname]
syspath [pathname]
Debug on|off
threads
monitors
heap
version
syncdb
du [-sk] [files or directories]
java_class [&]
ONTAP_cmd
jsh> exit
filer01>
jsh> ?
Java Shell commands:
cd [directory]
pwd
ls [-l]
cat file
rm file [file2 …]
cp src dest
mv src dest
ps [-l]
kill <-1|-9> threadName
gc
classpath [pathname]
syspath [pathname]
Debug on|off
threads
monitors
heap
version
syncdb
du [-sk] [files or directories]
java_class [&]
ONTAP_cmd
jsh> exit
filer01>
This command alone has made this class worth it for me, this will come in very handy in the future.