@Tim_G said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:

@theOtherGuy said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:

@Tim_G said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:

You will need 4 licensing models for a typical mixed environment:

Free - VEB (because a lot of people do tend to use it with servers, although that's not what it was designed for, and you shouldn't)
Paid - B&R (for hypervisors - enterprises typically need this in a standard mixed environment)
Paid - Veeam Agent for Linux (needed for physical Linux servers that are not hypervisors)
Paid - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows (needed for physical windows servers that are not hypervisors)

You, Sir, are making wrong statements 🙂

1.B&R - offers a Free version that lets you backup VMs.
2.Veeam Agent for Linux - has fully functional free version
3.Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows - not even released yet and will offer free version as well.

Okay... so then you'll be stuck with 4 separate free products... my point still remains the same. I think like 99% of all backup solutions have a free version. But at least with Unitrends (and many others), you'd only need a single free product. With Veeam, you'd need maybe 4 separate ones. Whether it's free or paid wasn't the point.

As a Veeam user, you may be right in that they are 4 different products. However, the VEB and agents all integrate with B&R. There is a caveat to this. You can monitor the VEB's in B&R, but cannot make any changes to the settings themselves. All you can do to the VEB's is just restrict who can make backups and who doesn't. You won't be able to make changes to frequency or times, etc.

This is the second time I applied a change and it did not apply. I went back into Group Policy in my post before this and noticed it had not applied my change again.

I reapplied it and it worked.

Not sure, and I'm not going to power up the old system to find out. New one is running fine. If I ever run in to a situation like that again, there are a lot more checks I would do.

OK, finally got that solved using this, and guess what the results are....

Failed the test.

Yay..... now lets see what Microsoft has to say about the results...

So, I'm upgrading to the latest version of Plex (free version as of now) and noticed that the new paid version ($5/month) now has a photo option, with mobile phone picture sync! https://www.plex.tv/features/photos/

Has anyone tried this yet? This would be my all in one media solution if it turns out to work well.

Just finishing our exchange 16 upgrade so.... not yet. But I will keep in touch.

@JaredBusch said in Ripping the bandaid off of the Sunk Cost Fallacy Issue:

@Dashrender I have been using this lately for small office main copier and / or workgroup copier in larger offices.

HP Laserjet Pro M477fdn All-in-One Color Printer, (CF378A)

$380 on Amazon.

Those look nice. I've had decent luck with HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 series, and now the Epson EcoTanks. The EcoTank refills are just amazingly inexpensive compared to anything else around except the other printer models you have to mod to add the tanks to.

@art_of_shred said in Thoughts on a Ubiquiti/Cisco comparo?:

This is just a project. What's the line? "Not my circus, not my monkeys"?

I think it goes "not my circus, not my Sonicwall".

xentop and uptime on one of my hosts. Looks like i need to do some xs updates this weekend, been over 2 months.

0_1484852489255_upload-c46b6e52-8494-4d28-81de-9e9dace25b5d

0_1484852584774_upload-3d407002-ac6a-4860-86a8-02380b448075

Is this purely a failed certificate issue? I mean that would make sense, but I've not done a lot with Exchange (and O365) besides dick-around with the settings as this organization has some major config issues.

@wirestyle22 said in Deleting unneeded partition in windows 10:

I have yet to run into something that gparted couldn't kill

Yeah, pretty much parted can do anything.

@scottalanmiller said in What Happens to Email After You Hit Send:

They mention the old HELO command, but EHLO is what is used in most systems today.

They did mention EHLO, but only a time or two.

@DustinB3403 said in Remote office - Basic Wireless Needs:

@JaredBusch said in Remote office - Basic Wireless Needs:

@DustinB3403 said in Remote office - Basic Wireless Needs:

@JaredBusch any serious reason why when the remote site is connected by a point to point vpn?

Same LAN, just different segment.

Run it on your XS then. I read that the first time that you had no virtualization in order to spin up a controller on an Ubuntu instance.

Ah, sorry, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. Yeah I can run it locally.

Yes, you can run it locally. I do. I manage my two sites over the VPN. I could just as easily pay $5/month to vultr and setup a VPS for it and have it on the internet.

Once you get it running, you'll need/want to setup a DNS record for unifi pointing to that controller. This will allow Unifi devices to find your controller at layer 3.

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in What do you think about Windows Server Containers ? and are you using them ?:

@scottalanmiller

So what do you use instead of Active Directory and pushing/installing msi files remotely on end users?

You can use AD without Windows, we don't but you can. And you can do GPO without Windows, we don't but you can. Neither of those are Windows solutions. They are general ones.

You can replace Group Policy with scripts easily. And you can replace them even better with modern DevOps tools. We are moving to that, so much more powerful than anything that Microsoft offers for managing Windows machines.

Active Directory is not popular like it once was. The idea that remote access to everyone's machines is universally needed is fading away. Lots of places still need that, but a lot (like us) have realized that there is no need there. It's all marketing. It's an SMB thing to believe that AD is always needed and that we must always be able to log into everyone's machines in that manner. There are two thing we don't worry about: full control of end user machines and shared authentication. They just aren't things that are very useful. If they were, we would use Azure AD instead, which is free and does that without the limitations of AD.

@fuznutz04 said in Expanding disks on Ubuntu on XenServer for Plex:

@Romo Bingo! That did the trick. Thanks!

Great, glad it solved your issue.

@wirestyle22 said in laptop tracking / theft recovery:

@Mike-Davis said in laptop tracking / theft recovery:

It looks like someone will be sitting through a Meraki demo to see if it's free for the first 100. That client only has 20 company owned mobile devices, so that would work.

That's only for the free AP

Yup, which you don't want / need the AP. You just need the MDM, not the hardware.

They announced today that Nylas N1 is free now.

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition:

@travisdh1 said in Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition:

I'm late to the party. But the root is HUGE for Linux. We normally use 12GB. 20GB is the largest I would use. Why are you extending that? What's the goal in having the root be so large?

Whoever first set it up (it wasn't @DustinB3403), just dropped everything onto the root partition. Against every best practice ever written/known for Unix/Linux.

Still, that doesn't create a need for expanding the root in most cases.

If I would have known this before helping to fix a broken system... hindsight sadly.

@JaredBusch said in Storage Provisioning For a Single Hyper-V Server Setup:

@scottalanmiller said in Storage Provisioning For a Single Hyper-V Server Setup:

@dr.funkenstein said in Storage Provisioning For a Single Hyper-V Server Setup:

I installed Hyper-V Core, and I'm facing a though time configuring... The server is at a remote location, and connect to the remote network via VPN, and am trying to use tools like Server Manager, Hyper-V manager, and even 5nine.. Server Manager itself works fine, but when I launch tools (such a Computer Management) from within Server Manager, I get random access denied messages .. Even after adding it as a Trusted host

Why are you doing things over a VPN? Stop doing that, that's likely your problem.

Even better, this sounds like a MSP office he is working from, so they probably have all these VPN connections to various clients open.

That's super scary, MSPs using VPNs is how malware is going to suddenly take over the world. Cross contamination all over the place.