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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @FATeknollogee
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      @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

      @scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

      @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

      @scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

      @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

      In the past (see google) there have been comments about Msft's implementation of NFS.
      Would that be a concern?

      It's improved, but not applicable here. Your fileserver should be Fedora, not Windows. There should be no Microsoft NFS involved in what you have described.

      My bad, I was over-thinking.
      Yes, with a Fedora fileserver, NFS would be built-in.

      As would replication.

      Just edited my op.
      Must have a gui.
      Pls point me to the solution since Hyper-V doesn't qualify.

      Why would you need a GUI? Replication is a background task. What would the GUI even do?

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
        last edited by

        @obsolesce said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

        If you need a GUI, than you need to buy something, or use Veeam linux agent free to some storage repository in Site B.

        That lacks the replication, though.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @FATeknollogee
          last edited by

          @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

          @scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

          @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

          @scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

          @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

          In the past (see google) there have been comments about Msft's implementation of NFS.
          Would that be a concern?

          It's improved, but not applicable here. Your fileserver should be Fedora, not Windows. There should be no Microsoft NFS involved in what you have described.

          My bad, I was over-thinking.
          Yes, with a Fedora fileserver, NFS would be built-in.

          As would replication.

          Just edited my op.
          Must have a gui.
          Pls point me to the solution since Hyper-V doesn't qualify.

          Here you go, a GOOD tool, WITH a GUI. Of course, it should go without saying, the GUI is just bad and there is zero reason to use it. It only takes a good tool and makes it less good. But if that's your requirement...

          https://www.unixmen.com/grsync-gadmin-rsync-graphical-front-end-applications-rsync-tool/

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          • FATeknollogeeF
            FATeknollogee @scottalanmiller
            last edited by

            @scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

            @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

            @scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

            @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

            @scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

            @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

            In the past (see google) there have been comments about Msft's implementation of NFS.
            Would that be a concern?

            It's improved, but not applicable here. Your fileserver should be Fedora, not Windows. There should be no Microsoft NFS involved in what you have described.

            My bad, I was over-thinking.
            Yes, with a Fedora fileserver, NFS would be built-in.

            As would replication.

            Just edited my op.
            Must have a gui.
            Pls point me to the solution since Hyper-V doesn't qualify.

            Here you go, a GOOD tool, WITH a GUI. Of course, it should go without saying, the GUI is just bad and there is zero reason to use it. It only takes a good tool and makes it less good. But if that's your requirement...

            https://www.unixmen.com/grsync-gadmin-rsync-graphical-front-end-applications-rsync-tool/

            Thank you.
            How about a GREAT tool without a GUI?

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403 @FATeknollogee
              last edited by

              @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

              @scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

              @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

              @scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

              @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

              @scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

              @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

              In the past (see google) there have been comments about Msft's implementation of NFS.
              Would that be a concern?

              It's improved, but not applicable here. Your fileserver should be Fedora, not Windows. There should be no Microsoft NFS involved in what you have described.

              My bad, I was over-thinking.
              Yes, with a Fedora fileserver, NFS would be built-in.

              As would replication.

              Just edited my op.
              Must have a gui.
              Pls point me to the solution since Hyper-V doesn't qualify.

              Here you go, a GOOD tool, WITH a GUI. Of course, it should go without saying, the GUI is just bad and there is zero reason to use it. It only takes a good tool and makes it less good. But if that's your requirement...

              https://www.unixmen.com/grsync-gadmin-rsync-graphical-front-end-applications-rsync-tool/

              Thank you.
              How about a GREAT tool without a GUI?

              rsync

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @FATeknollogee
                last edited by scottalanmiller

                @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

                @scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

                @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

                @scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

                @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

                @scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

                @fateknollogee said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

                In the past (see google) there have been comments about Msft's implementation of NFS.
                Would that be a concern?

                It's improved, but not applicable here. Your fileserver should be Fedora, not Windows. There should be no Microsoft NFS involved in what you have described.

                My bad, I was over-thinking.
                Yes, with a Fedora fileserver, NFS would be built-in.

                As would replication.

                Just edited my op.
                Must have a gui.
                Pls point me to the solution since Hyper-V doesn't qualify.

                Here you go, a GOOD tool, WITH a GUI. Of course, it should go without saying, the GUI is just bad and there is zero reason to use it. It only takes a good tool and makes it less good. But if that's your requirement...

                https://www.unixmen.com/grsync-gadmin-rsync-graphical-front-end-applications-rsync-tool/

                Thank you.
                How about a GREAT tool without a GUI?

                GUI = not great tool

                Just don't use the GUI.

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                • ObsolesceO
                  Obsolesce
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                  Why the GUI requirement? Having that rules out the BEST ways to do what you want to do?

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                  • PhlipElderP
                    PhlipElder
                    last edited by

                    Hyper-V Replica would work in this situation with a few caveats.

                    There is a 15 second limit on replication cycles. If the VMs are running database/active services this could be a problem.

                    Site link would be key relative to the amount of data changing on those VMs.

                    If Site A gets flattened then spooling the VMs up at Site B may require some tweaks if Site-to-Site VPN was being used and thus different subnets.

                    Then there's the need to either shift WAN IP(s) to Site B or flip DNS.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @PhlipElder
                      last edited by

                      @phlipelder said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

                      Hyper-V Replica would work in this situation with a few caveats.

                      There is a 15 second limit on replication cycles. If the VMs are running database/active services this could be a problem.

                      That would be handled earlier in the process by the backup job. If the backup is good, the replication won't cause an issue. If the backup is bad, the replication can't fix it, of course, but will replicate the bad backup. But the only place that this can be addressed is in the backup step, the replication is of backup files, so not at a point in the process where it matters.

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                      • PhlipElderP
                        PhlipElder @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

                        @phlipelder said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

                        Hyper-V Replica would work in this situation with a few caveats.

                        There is a 15 second limit on replication cycles. If the VMs are running database/active services this could be a problem.

                        That would be handled earlier in the process by the backup job. If the backup is good, the replication won't cause an issue. If the backup is bad, the replication can't fix it, of course, but will replicate the bad backup. But the only place that this can be addressed is in the backup step, the replication is of backup files, so not at a point in the process where it matters.

                        "Garbage in garbage out" never seems to go away. It's been the bane of our existence since the switch to image/block based backups. :S

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @PhlipElder
                          last edited by

                          @phlipelder said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

                          @phlipelder said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

                          Hyper-V Replica would work in this situation with a few caveats.

                          There is a 15 second limit on replication cycles. If the VMs are running database/active services this could be a problem.

                          That would be handled earlier in the process by the backup job. If the backup is good, the replication won't cause an issue. If the backup is bad, the replication can't fix it, of course, but will replicate the bad backup. But the only place that this can be addressed is in the backup step, the replication is of backup files, so not at a point in the process where it matters.

                          "Garbage in garbage out" never seems to go away. It's been the bane of our existence since the switch to image/block based backups. :S

                          File backups suffered from this, too. Databases are just hard to back up.

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