@DustinB3403 said in MariaDB Backup and Move:

@scottalanmiller cool, so if I am already collecting the rest of the database (see previous topic from today using rsync) then backing up the mariadb should grab what is left.

Then all that would be left is to push the backup to an secondary system and test that all works.

In theory. I've had unreliable recoveries from that. I don't know any method to get 100% backup if that code is stored in the database.

Dang it.

XenServer is 6.5.
XenCenter is 7.1 as of today.
The VM is headless Ubuntu 14.04 running Seafile.
I happen to also run a VM for XO but I don't know how that plays into this. Is XO better at extending partitions?

I eventually gave up trying to extend the partition anyway. The docs I found said I had to blast away the partition so I needed to move data around to do it. Just a pain in the butt. It was only a test install of Seafile anyway. I intend to build it up properly this round.
The only question is now, I really don't want to go through this again, or I need to set it up so changing drive size isn't as big a deal.
We've used up our 10GB of Box space so I could easily just throw, say, 50GB at the new setup and it would probably last us a half decade. But still, it would be nice to do this in a way where I can more easily adjust available space if the time comes.

I believe it has to do with 'polling' known sites on the internet - such as MS DNS servers or other.

@NerdyDad said in WiFi range extender requires wifi...:

Cabling: One aspect of home networking that is far too often overlooking is implementing a quality cabling plant inside the home. This requires far more effort than other home networking projects and falls more into the electrician space rather than the IT professional space but is also one of the most important pieces from the home owner perspective and end user perspective rather than the IT pro perspective. A good, well installed cabling plant will make a home more attractive to buyers and make the value a powerful home network even better.

http://www.smbitjournal.com/2014/05/doing-it-at-home-enterprise-networking/

What an excellent reference 🙂

@JaredBusch said in Looking for how-to on setting up a proxy:

server {
client_max_body_size 40M;
listen 80;
server_name support.bundystl.com;
rewrite ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
}

Yep, got all that done and it's working well. What I was referring to was redirecting traffic to HTTPS. Essentially this is the part of the file I was missing...

server { client_max_body_size 40M; listen 80; server_name support.bundystl.com; rewrite ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent; }

@JaredBusch said in Win10 native SSH with BASH for Windows:

@Tim_G https://mangolassi.it/topic/7433/getting-a-handle-on-mangolassis-markdown-markup

Thanks, bookmarked!

I used them years ago on color printers where ripping a job could take a long time on the weak built in print controller. It's probably been 10 years since I have touched one. Even then, I didn't use it for the scan stuff. The extra processing power was just need to rip print jobs, not for scanning.

I'd still use DuckDNS.org
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@Kimberley-Paessler said in How do you test your website:

@DustinB3403 If you (or your customer) are using PRTG, you could use the "cloud ping" and "cloud http" sensors to monitor reachability from around the world. Those sensors will try to reach your website from 5 different AWS data centers, and will report on reachability and response time from each of those data centers. If something goes wrong, you can get an alert, so you know you need to react. The free version of PRTG will let you run 5 cloud http and 5 cloud ping sensors.

If that's not enough, check out services such as https://www.site24x7.com/, which provide similar ongoing monitoring on a larger scale.

If a one-time or manual test is enough, check out services like https://tools.pingdom.com/ or https://www.webpagetest.org/, which are free and don't require any setup on your side, but only provide a snapshot of up/down at the time you try them.

Along with pingdom, we usually use https://geopeeker.com which also gives a snapshot from multiple locations

Absolutely. I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but Lucy Kellaway's series of office spaces are great. Like this Lego one

Youtube Video

@momurda said in Security Incident Response:

Yes i was thinking they just want an answer and dont really care what the answer is.

Good chance that that is the case.

+1 for primary application platform on Ubuntu.

If you mean what I think you mean, I use Centos for General server stuff, basically a server that can handle anything or can be more than 1 thing, however for Ubuntu and cause of the snaps, I use Ubuntu for specific roles like :

File server
Or
RockChat server

For specific purpose roles.

I just write an article about that here: http://www.francescoprovino.com/2017/04/16/full-disk-encryption-unlocking-from-virtual-serial-tty-paranoia-xenserver-and-libvirt/ .

I have had a Mushkin and a Crucial. Both seemed fine.

@msff-amman-Itofficer @stacksofplates

Got more usefull info, it seems it is cause of my -c switch:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Virtualization_Administration_Guide/sect-Virtualization-Tips_and_tricks-Using_qemu_img.html

Convert

The convert option is used to convert one recognized image format to another image format.
Command format:

qemu-img convert [-c] [-f format] [-o options] [-O output_format] filename output_filename

Convert the disk image filename to disk image output_filename using format output_format. The disk image can be optionally compressed with the -c option, or encrypted with the -o option by setting -o encryption. Note that the options available with the -o parameter differ with the selected format.

Only the qcow2 format supports encryption or compression. qcow2 encryption uses the AES format with secure 128-bit keys. qcow2 compression is read-only, so if a compressed sector is converted from qcow2 format, it is written to the new format as uncompressed data.

Image conversion is also useful to get a smaller image when using a format which can grow, such as qcow or cow. The empty sectors are detected and suppressed from the destination image.

@NashBrydges Oh this is awesome! Gonna be giving that a go on Monday or Tuesday.

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX Send Mail Error on Vultr:

@JaredBusch said in FreePBX send mail error:

Did you request smtp be unblocked by vultr?

It's blocked by default, so if you forget to request this on any server, outbound emails won't work.

The block is account level. Not per server.

Thank you, I'll investigate from here.