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@scottalanmiller said in MSP Backup Product - Local Storage: @taurex said in MSP Backup Product - Local Storage: @CCWTech You'd likely need something that's known as Backup as a Service (BaaS) app. You might have to rely only on agent-based backups for VMs without a backup appliance. I believe the main reason behind backup appliances/servers is agentless VM backups. BaaS essentially always means that it is going to cloud. If it isn't, it's hard to call it a service as you are doing most of it and there isn't any back up service. Appliances don't imply agentless, I'm sure some appliance does that. But the big appliance players almost all do agent and agentless, and some are only one or the other. The biggest ones, like Datto and Unitrends, do agents for sure... one exclusively, one optionally. And a Veeam based appliance will do either, too. Thanks for pointing that out, Scott. I stand corrected. I'm quite interested myself if there's a backup solution out there with a hosted central management console. Although, if it's a Linux based appliance that can manage backups of Windows-based VMs, I'd check it out too. Veeam is excellent but I find it too Windows-centric. No Linux-based central management, proxies have to be Windows either etc.

@Obsolesce said in UREs Strike InnoDB on MySQL: @scottalanmiller said in UREs Strike InnoDB on MySQL: @Pete-S said in UREs Strike InnoDB on MySQL: Step one is to remove the drives and clone them with dd or recovery tool to a new drive. You could probably recover 99.9% of the data - if you want. As you can guess from all of their previous issues, they don't want to pay for any recovery, they just want it magically fixed for free. They don't own any storage onto which to clone it, either. Then what is the point of any of it? It appears to have zero value to the business. I said that to them.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now: @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now: The Dark Crystal. My 9 year old actually enjoy that movie. The movie was pretty boring, but the prequel series is pretty awesome so far. My daughter is 10 and was okay with the movie, but she's loving the show.

Mystery solved.

@ecksdeexd said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10: my name jeff I read that with the accent.

This is the provider I use to clone KVM guests with Terraform https://github.com/dmacvicar/terraform-provider-libvirt

Welcome @shortstack

@StorageNinja said in TPM module - what is it used for?: Real encryption keeps the keys in a remote KIMP server (what you'll see for any DISA/STIG system etc). I've seen shops that require a human to apply the key every time.

@RojoLoco said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?: @scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?: @RojoLoco said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?: Tonight's menu: Hot smoked mahi tacos with pickled onions, red cabbage, and cotija cheese, borracho beans, roasted broccoli. That sounds amazing. They were, without exaggeration, the best fish tacos I've ever eaten. Had feta instead of cotija, couldn't find any cabbage, but still beyond amazing. Well now I know what I want for lunch

@DustinB3403 i am also wondering what the workaround for this issue is, re: salt minion executing brew installs. did you ever figure out a clean way to get brew working, maybe runas a different user?

@JasGot said in Wi-Fi calling?: @Pete-S said in Wi-Fi calling?: I did some more research and it turns out that WiFi calling is using some familiar protocols but it's not the same as VoIP using SIP/RTP. Actually another name for Wi-Fi Calling is the more official VoWiFi. It's using a protocol called GAN (Generic Access Network) that is based on IMS, IPsec and ePDG. And IMS is using SIP for signaling. Basically it's a way of sending the same packets that would go over the cell network over internet instead. It uses the SIM card for security and authentication. It's data is encapsulated in an IPsec tunnel - which is why it only works if IPsec ports and packets are allowed in the firewall. Related technology that works in a very similar way is VoLTE, which is Voice over the 4G/LTE network. Did you happen to learn if it uses the SS7 network? It would be very intersting if VoWiFi avoided the SS7. Why do you care? That is a back-haul PSTN network between carriers that you have no access or say about. But the correct answer is, "not while the call is a 'Vo' (Voice over) anything." At that point it is traveling over data networks. Which, by definition, cannot be switched telephone signalling.

@mgbolts Awesome!

My closest to any of theses is Juneau Alaska. Didn't make the list, but before their JAWS system to measure wind shear off the mountains, it was a difficult landing to say the least. It used to require a 180 degree turn during last stages of descnet.

@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News: @mlnews My Pi-hole sure does show a lot of blocked telemetry sites (Roku, Amazon, Google, etc). I hope some or most of that traffic is those nasty tracking bits. y block percentage is low. not sure why.

BBC News - Why Greeks question this role model's credentials https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49753214

@hobbit666 said in Exploring VitalPBX: Do you know if they plan on changing Not much choice, chan_sip is deprecated.

I got an early invite to Flotam, besides that I can't say much but the game is pretty flipping amazing so far.

@Dashrender said in Art applications: @Obsolesce said in Art applications: Never heard of any of those except gimp. Me either - that's why I posted them. use the list or don't. - @JaredBusch - me no care. Then next time actually say something. FFS is your name @Aaron-Studer ?

Other Agile methodologies, at least in their earlier incarnations, didn't pay much attention to CI. CI is great, but people were trying to figure out what it was and how to do it in 1999. Shops talking about (not doing, just talking about) CI were in the top .1% back then. It was an era of huge software engineering progress and change. Loads of ideas came up and some became major, like CI, and some died off and are forgotten, like PP.

Well done to StarWind HCA! Our users on IT Central Station have given StarWind HCA an average rating of 4.9 out of 5. Here are the reviews for those interested in researching it: https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/starwind-hyperconverged-appliance-reviews/tzd/c981-sf-2

Thank you all for the input. I'm trying to decide between the PEPWAVE and the Netgear. The Netgear has some bad reviews, but your remarks will keep it in the list to explore. I'll let you know how it works out for us when I get one in and test it.

@stacksofplates said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools: @fuznutz04 said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools: @stacksofplates said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools: Terraform will do this and I have an Ansible role to do it also. As @IRJ mentioned Vagrant will work also. However I feel Terraform is a better fit as you have more control over the specific pieces of your infrastructure. You would still prefer Terraform over Ansible for this as well? Yeah. My role can create the VMs, but Terraform had more functionality for that. Ansible overlaps in the infrastructure provisioning space a lot, but it lacks keeping states like Terraform does. I'd like to learn both. I just started with Ansible a day or two ago. I have been (and still am) using SaltStack.

@stacksofplates Thanks! I started down the path of Logstash/Greylog/others and realized that it's going to take a bit more of my bandwidth than I can dedicate at the moment. So I ended up throwing together a BASH script that'll copy the current log files over to the share every minute. It works for now...

So I ended up making a special trip because it was bothering the crap out of me. I brought a different usb drive with me to test. The replacement usb drive had the exact same problem. I plugged both drives into my laptop and both worked fine. Finally, I reformatted the drives from my laptop and then reconnected to the server and everything worked perfectly. I shutdown the server a couple times and did a couple cold boots just to make sure everything stuck and all was well. The original formatting of the drives were all NTFS so I am not sure what difference reformatting them from my laptop made but seemed to do the trick. I appreciate all the feedback from everyone. Thanks again!!

@coliver said in Software Catalog: @Kelly said in Software Catalog: @coliver said in Software Catalog: For the opensource side. https://www.opsi.org may have something of what you're looking at. I tested it out in the past but SCCM fit with what the management was looking to do. Just to be clear, I'm not as concerned about the deployment side of things (yet). Do how much is opsi and SCCM: Software Center oriented around end users and how much around administration? I know it should be part of the fabric. I'm just trying to modernize some processes that have been enshrined in the halls of familiarity, and this is the first step for us. Software Center is almost 100% end user oriented. If you are looking to automate this without hands you wouldn't even expose the interface. I think Opsi is the opposite. I don't think, if I recall, it has any real means for the end users to request applications outside of a really bad web interface... even then I may be mistaken. That's good to know. I had only done some surface digging into Software Center, and then when I hit the opsi website it looked as you describe it now, so I wanted to be sure that I was communicating clearly. Thanks.