@ccwtech said in Microsoft XPS Document Writer v4 Missing from Win 10:

I did an in place upgrade of Windows 10 and it looks to have resolved the issue.

That is awesome, I will need to try it for a Quickbooks user with the same issue here.

@net-runner said in Guacamole on Fedora 27:

I've tried Guacamole on CentOS and Debian. Both worked fine, but it was a bare-metal install (not docker). Check Guacamole and Tomcat logs to identify if they are running at all and try to see your connection attempts there. If there is nothing it has to be firewall/connectivity issue.

The Docker instructions don't seem to work, which seems to be my experience with all Docker instructions. Sounds like it'll be easy, but never "just works" and takes more complicated fiddling than just doing traditional installs.

How much storage did it come out to? I agree, at this small of a load, a web instance might make the most sense. Or a VM somewhere on your existing infrastructure.

@black3dynamite said in LVM Thin Provisioning for a KVM setup?:

What advantage or disadvantage is there selecting LVM Thin Provisioning instead of LVM partition scheme?
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/chap-oVirt_Nodes/
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It's just thin provisioning, with all the benefits and pitfalls of any other type of thin provisioning. Why it would be required, I don't know.

I would love for Veeam to natively integrate with KVM at the hypervisor level. I know that Amazon is using them now and a lot of people on ML use KVM.

@scottalanmiller said in Statefull vs Stateless:

@pmoncho said in Statefull vs Stateless:

1 Ubuntu 16.04 Fax server (Driver for Digi only works on 16.04 to date)

Now a Fax server would be stateless natively.

Gotcha. 🙂

@obsolesce said in Agent and Agentless Backups:

@stacksofplates said in Agent and Agentless Backups:

@obsolesce said in Agent and Agentless Backups:

@stacksofplates said in Agent and Agentless Backups:

As much as I like to argue with @scottalanmiller I have to agree that usually agents are easier.

Because the agent based backup meant that to recover the entire guest, I would have to mount a special ISO, it wasn't nearly as straightforward as "restore this backup from 15 minutes ago to Host 2".

That is in no way a requirement of agent based systems. This sounds more like there isn't a reliable way to reproduce a system and the data isn't on a separate volume. Make sure the systems can be rebuilt immediately and you can just reattach the data and be done.

Even with something as simple as ReaR, you define your skeleton volumes you want backed up and include that in your template.

Example (I'll use Ansible since that's what I know):

The template would have this in it:

BACKUP_PROG_INCLUDE=('{{ backup_dirs | join("' '") }}')

You'd have a list (in this case called backup_dirs) that gets iterated over:

backup_dirs: - /home/* - /data/* - /var/www/html/*

That backup_dirs list is specific to each machine when it's created.

The agent based stuff is really simple because it can very easily be specific for each machine and always be specific when the systems are built without any work after the initial set up.

Just because a system is backed up via agentless backup doesn't mean the VMs data can't be separate. I could have a VM backed up agentlessly that has its data on a separate volume / virtual disk... then I could instantly restore the VM and OS, reattach the data, and not have to rebuild shit.

That's not why I said that. If you have to fully restore a system from an ISO the agent built, then it doesn't sound like the data was separate.

No I meant you would boot to a recovery/boot ISO so you can restore the server from within the recovery encironment

You're missing what I'm saying. If the data volume is separate you just attach it to a fresh VM and don't have to do that at all. The only time you need to rebuild from that recovery environment is when either the data isn't separate or you can't reliably reproduce the OS volume.

@bbigford Do not know anyone in that industry out there.

@obsolesce said in Salt-Master Errors Fedora 28:

@scottalanmiller said in Salt-Master Errors Fedora 28:

Or closer to working, at least.

Something still wrong with it? F28-only?

Yeah, it runs better now, but still throws errors later.

Fedora 28 is fixed. Remove salt, and install again. Should be all set.

Don't know about CentOS, but the fixed Salt packages hit the Fedora repos in the last few hours.

@dustinb3403 said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@scottalanmiller said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@dustinb3403 said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@scottalanmiller said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@dustinb3403 said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@scottalanmiller said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@stacksofplates said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@jaredbusch said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@stacksofplates said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@jaredbusch said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@obsolesce said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

Any open source and free KVM backup software

FOSS is not a requirement to me.

If there was a robust package I could use to get agentless and CBT and file level restore on KVM, I will buy it, if it is reasonable.

There was a thread on the other site about Unitrends having agentless on it sometime this year. Ill have to see if I can find it.

But I cannot even install Unitrends on Hyper-V server.............

Are we allowed to post links from there?

Yes

Since when?

Since the person who made up that insane rule was removed from the site.

Would that insane person be Dave?

Who is Dave?

Nvm.

Oh, Dave from over there? I've never heard him called Dave before. Sorry, I knew it was a joke but couldn't figure out what the joke was.

Thanks.

@scottalanmiller Perhaps they did at one time, but selected the option to not show it again.

@fateknollogee said in Fedora 28 Server - Linux 101 - How do you partition your drives:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 28 Server - Linux 101 - How do you partition your drives:

@fateknollogee said in Fedora 28 Server - Linux 101 - How do you partition your drives:

You could do something similar to this & use /data for storing vm's

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Could do that, but it loses usable space, and is unnecessarily complex. Unless he's doing something complex with the /data partition, like using a different file system or needs to snap it separately from the OS, this is just a waste.

Also, don't use swap partitions. That's not horrible, but it's unnecessarly complex and rigid and not considered best practice today.

Swap is part of the auto-partition setup.
I did not create the swap...yes I know it says "manual" at the top

Yes, but once doing any intentional management of the storage beyond just taking the defaults, best to remove it.

@ccwtech said in Unifi 5.7 on Ubuntu 18.04:

Scott, why did you go with Ubuntu vs. Fedora? (Asking for a friend)

Because it's the official OS of the product. Absolutely no reason to use Fedora here. Unifi only supports Ubuntu and Debian, and Jared and I have opposite views here. Ubuntu is the business product of the Debian family, Debian is the hobby project that is used as the basis for it. Debian is great, I love the project and they do great work, but it doesn't have primary vendor support, you are at the mercy of a hobby project. Ubuntu uses that basis and turns it into a production ready release with vendor and market support options.

Ubuntu isn't Fedora, but it's still extremely good.

Even if you are LANless and you want pure hostnames and no FQDN, you just set your search settings and that handles that regardless of LAN or LANless design.

@irj said in Anybody using Red Hat satellite?:

@stacksofplates said in Anybody using Red Hat satellite?:

A weakness is Katello is a huge pain to set up. I literally used forklift to get a Vagrant box up and then used that Vagrant box as a long living VM.

We had Red Hat come out and setup Satellite for us.

Cheater :winking_face: yeah I can see why you would want that. I wouldnt want to do that myself in prod without someone there

@phlipelder said in Hyper-V Server 2016 guest licensing question:

The guests on an OEM licensed host can be moved to another host whether it's licensed OEM, VL, or Retail so long as the destination host is licensed to receive those guests.

That makes no sense. That's not moving it, that's buying it twice. Very different things.

That's like "can I move my house from here to there"? People mean take the same house and shift its location. Not buy a second house in the new location and give up the old one.

@wrx7m said in Wazuh on Fedora 28:

Thanks @JaredBusch

That seems to have solved the initial problem. For other newbs - After disabling SELinux, you should reboot.

Well, that depends on how you disable it.