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  SpiceWorld 2019 Events, Plans, Meetups
  spiceworld spiceworld 2019 • • scottalanmiller  

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  MSP Backup Product - Local Storage
  hyper-v backups altaro • • CCWTech  

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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.
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  UREs Strike InnoDB on MySQL
  linux storage centos database mysql rdbms centos 6 relational database innodb ure • • scottalanmiller  

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  @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.
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  SOLVED Network Interfaces in Virt-Manager
  kvm fedora 30 virt-manager • • EddieJennings  

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  Mystery solved.
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  Run virt-manager on Windows 10
  windows windows 10 kvm xen virt-manager lxc xming • • scottalanmiller  

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  @ecksdeexd said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10: my name jeff I read that with the accent.
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  Cross platform automated patch management
  linux windows mac osx patching updates • • FATeknollogee  

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  This is the provider I use to clone KVM guests with Terraform https://github.com/dmacvicar/terraform-provider-libvirt
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  TPM module - what is it used for?
  tpm • • Pete.S  

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  @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.
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  Saltstack and Brew Casks
  apple salt devops osx casks • • DustinB3403  

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  @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?
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  Wi-Fi calling?
  • Pete.S  

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  @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.
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  FreePBX Contact Manager to Yealink Address Book
  freepbx yealink address book contact manager • • JaredBusch  

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  @mgbolts Awesome!
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  Exploring VitalPBX
  voip pbx telephony asterisk sip vitalpbx • • scottalanmiller  

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  @hobbit666 said in Exploring VitalPBX: Do you know if they plan on changing Not much choice, chan_sip is deprecated.
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  Art applications
  art application free software • • Dashrender  

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  @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 ?
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  4g or 5g LTE cellular modem options?
  • JasGot  

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  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.
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  Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools
  kvm saltstack ansible automation libvirt • • fuznutz04  

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  @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.
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  Copying log to file share in realtime (or close)
  • anthonyh  

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  @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...
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  Dell R730 - Stuck at Initializing Firmware Interfaces
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  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!!
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  Software Catalog
  software asset management • • Kelly  

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  @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.
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  Wordpress with WAF
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  NGINX Geo IP module
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  Install Nextcloud 13.0.0 on Fedora 27
  how to nextcloud real instructions guide fedora 27 nextcloud 13 • • JaredBusch  

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  @WindowsGuy said in Install Nextcloud 13.0.0 on Fedora 27: The Apache vhost file location is no longer available. Do you have another location where I can find it or steps to configure it manually? here: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sorvani/scripts/master/Nextcloud/nextcloud.conf
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  New ISP Issues at CEO's Home
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  @travisdh1 Bingo. Satellite is going to have delay.
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  VoIP echo issue ...
  voip freepbx voip telephony • • BraswellJay  

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  We had the same problem with VitalPBX, and @ScottAlanMiller's suggestion, we made the Opus codec the highest priority and it resolved the issue for us. Maybe it is worth a try for you?
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  DLP (Data Loss Prevention) solution
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  @RojoLoco Because the account is only 7 hours old and no moderators have seen it.
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  Veeam with NetApp?
  storage backup veeam netapp raid 4 raid-dp • • Pete.S  

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  @StorageNinja said in Veeam with NetApp?: Netapp E-Series is the same as the old Dell MD36xxx or the LSI enginio code base (IBM also sold a similar low-end modular array). These things were wicked fast/cost-effective at streaming workloads (got used for Lustre clusters a lot as the DAS on the nodes). Dell's abandoned reselling them for Seagate (Dothill) but they still around Not wicked fast compared to building your own. And the staggering lack of internal support if anything goes wrong is a big deal... storage is one of those things you want to have work, especially at these price ranges. Having been a NetApp customer, I know that their support is helpless when it comes to trying to do high performance, their crap just falls over and so do their engineers.
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  ZeroTier File Transfer Speed
  zerotier • • NashBrydges  

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  Conveniently, he can also do the same over the ZT network so that he has speed tests from the same tool on both networks.
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  DeviceMetadataServiceURL Bad Certificate
  printer printing metadata • • wirestyle22  

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  @Dashrender said in DeviceMetadataServiceURL Bad Certificate: @wirestyle22 said in DeviceMetadataServiceURL Bad Certificate: This is an easy line of questioning I wonder how their alerts can be missing this for days?
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  Disabling Microsoft Edge?
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  @manxam Yea I'm probably going to give them basic Office suite and some browsers as well. No thanks on the sample xml. I'll be making one shortly anyhow. Much appreciated though!
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  IP phones with no PBX
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  Great thread. I have a super simple setup for a friend and this should solve it for him easily. Thanks for asking the question.
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  Spinning rust, how long do you keep it spinning?
  • Pete.S  

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  @Pete-S maybe if you gave a concrete example of where you see replacing good five year old drives with new drives as good we'd see what you mean. Under normal circumstances, I'd replace the old drives with the same size drives today (don't want to lose speed or reconfigure) and just lose money.