ScreenConnect can definitely be used in house, but it is not open source or free. So probably not what you are looking for, but worth mentioning.

@Lakshmana said in Pclinux OS Issue:

@Lakshmana what is the option here???

Just pay attention and select the right partitions for installing Fedora 25. That's about it. You can't take a backup or move the data elsewhere so you don't have many options.

@coliver said in Why the SMB Still Needs Hardware RAID:

@scottalanmiller said in Why the SMB Still Needs Hardware RAID:

@coliver said in Why the SMB Still Needs Hardware RAID:

@scottalanmiller said in Why the SMB Still Needs Hardware RAID:

@coliver said in Why the SMB Still Needs Hardware RAID:

@scottalanmiller said in Why the SMB Still Needs Hardware RAID:

@coliver said in Why the SMB Still Needs Hardware RAID:

@travisdh1 said in Why the SMB Still Needs Hardware RAID:

@dafyre said in Why the SMB Still Needs Hardware RAID:

@scottalanmiller said in Why the SMB Still Needs Hardware RAID:

The most common RAIN approach that I see is taking all disks in the pool, noting their nodal presence and using mirroring to distribute the data so that data mirrors never go to the same disk and/or the same node. So a little like a networked RAID 1E but with more flexibility and the option to add nodal separation and performance testing so that data moves to where it is used.

Are you aware of any open source RAIN systems?

Gluster and Swift

I think Ceph and Lustre may be two others.

Lustre is RAIN, but is closed. Gluster was the open replacement for Lustre.

Just a quick search showed that Lustre was GPL 2.0, not sure if that is new or not.

Oh wow, must be new. It was crazy expensive in 2006 when we were really investigating it. That's awesome.

Ah looks like it went open source in 2010.

Oh cool, so I remember things well then. I'm just out of date. Gluster probably forced their hand, why would anyone consider Lustre when it was closed source? The answer was probably... they wouldn't and didn't.

Yep, I'd assume that was the case. Especially when it is a such a specific, and at the time, niche market.

And when Gluster went directly after them, even in name.

@BRRABill said in Mixing Linux & Windows Server in a SMB:

Right, wrong, or indifferent, people think the gold standard is what Microsoft presents.

And that's something we need to fix conceptually. Like @dashrender and I were discussing offline... it's like Intel and AMD.

At the end of the day, AMD made the best ever Intel IA32 processors. And then Intel ended up making the best AMD64 processors. They both made the best of the competitor's technology.

The idea that "original" is related to "better" doesn't work in general and especially not in IT. Samba, for most of its history, has been on top. And AD itself is a copy of "Linux originals" if you look at it that way. So you can think of AD as being the copy if you want.

@JJoyner1985 said in UNIX: What Is a Tarball:

So, do you think the reason I am seeing a lot more gzip in use with tarballs is due to the familiarity of gzip and the negligible difference in the compression between it and bzip2? Basically, bzip2 doesn't make enough of an improvement with sufficient regularity to entice people to move away from gzip, or is there some other benefit to gzip that my training material hasn't covered?

That's correct. The difference between the two is generally small enough that people are not concerned. And lots of systems still don't have bzip2 installed by default so if you want scripts or whatever to work universally you often use gzip because you know that it is always there and predictable.

@guyinpv said in Suggestion for decent, free, ticketing with simple needs?:

I already have an account on Freshdesk which is an actual ticketing system, but I have it set up more for public support at our ecommerce, not internal tickets.

Can you not just create another Freshdesk site and use that?
So have:
https://mysite1.freshdesk.com (public)
https://mysite2.freshdesk.com (internal)

En inglés, pero sencillo.

https://community.spiceworks.com/help/Active_Directory

@BBigford said in SQL understanding - power outage:

@scottalanmiller said in SQL understanding - power outage:

@BBigford said in SQL understanding - power outage:

Here's what the person I heard it from said:

"likely easy to talk on the phone (i'm on a conference call, but have time this afternoon).

The term is quiescence, that you are looking for. This means that writes have been halted, and all data in buffer has been flushed. Part of the challenge here is this needs to be done not only at the app layer, the OS layer, the storage layer underneath that (and even at the drive level, as cheap consumer SSDs and SATA drives will have write buffers not protected).

Modern SQL commits writes first to the transaction log then to the database, and in the event of a power loss can "replay" the transaction log. The problem is if the log is large the can take a REALLY long time, and if you have systems underneath that ACK'd writes at the SCSI layer out of order (Consumer level SSDs) this might not properly recover."

Not really sure what data is sitting in the buffer during a power outage though. Meta data waiting to be written to tran logs? So then when a power outage happens and that buffer gets flushed, there's an inconsistency in those tran logs that were mid-write...

That's where atomic commits come in. They make sure that everything is quiesced before anything goes to the database. ZFS does the same thing for different tasks. This really isn't an issue in a properly designed database - unless you've added a caching layer yourself that doesn't honour the flush commands from higher up the stack. Then it is on your own head. You could always put your database into RAM and cause it to fail like that if you wanted.

I found out what he was talking about. Commit to tran log > Application acknowledge transaction > written to DB. The data that gets flushed shouldn't matter because most applications wouldn't acknowledge something that isn't commit. So if there was a power outage then the tran logs could just replay, app acknowledges, and so on.

I was missing something, and only thinking of tran logs and the database. Didn't think he had been talking about the front end.

Ah, okay. Yeah, if the application doesn't wait for the database, it's just being reckless.

Dominica uses it because the blue light keeps her more awake and she often just wants to fall asleep when using her phone.

Just finalizing the conversation here that we feel pretty confident in the changes we've made to the update script.

You can update by downloading a new copy of the script or manually making the changes to the file.

The script will now reset any custom git changes that don't match the source, then the script will proceed, and make the necessary changes to enable the feature so you can import your config files.

@momurda said in Mitel phone won't log off ACD group:

I used to love Mitel systems when i had to use them in the past. They can do anything you could think to do with a phone call. I am actually donating the old Intertel Axxess system here and about 35 handsets(look like the ones you have in your pictures) at the end of the week.

Have you tried doing this both off hook and on hook?

No I haven't. you have 35 handsets, eh? do they work?

@wirestyle22 said in Large Linux Samba Server On Hyper-V 2012 R2 - Caveats? Best Practices?:

So does the host file system (NTFS) not manage the partition the VM file system is on (XFS)? Is that why @scottalanmiller is saying to separate the two? i'm a little confused how the two interact or if they interact directly/indirectly.

The VM's storage is just files. Literally each individual file system in the VM is a file on NTFS or ReFS. So from Hyper-V we see a series of files. To the VM they are normal disks.

@larsen161 From a security perspective, I wanted to use separate u/p for my email system and archives.

Later, Backupify did tell me that they were planning to implement 2fa in 2017 but I would wait for it to happen to believe it as I have been chasing this feature since 2012!

@scottalanmiller said in ITs Big Secret:

@Dashrender said in ITs Big Secret:

The whole reason for my post was the notion that the employee would go running to their boss because IT is making them unproductive, at least in perception, if not in reality.

That's for them to do, not IT. IT would verify it if needed, but not by default be the tattle tales just for the sake of reporting on employees.

which was exactly the post I was responding to above.

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This picture doesn't really say much, and now that they've fixed their inbound TLS issue, perhaps the unencrypted number will be a lot smaller from now on... just thought I'd share what they shared.

@RoopanKumar said in Any symantec netbackup admins here??!!!!:

OK, now I need to setup like 2 windows server, 2 Linux and 3 DB server with netbackup

what will the hardware configuration for that setup
RAM?CPU?HDD?

That's tiny. NetBackup is meant for enterprise environments. I've never heard of any NB deployment with fewer than three or four hundred individual servers. That's less than a single server there! Why NB?

@Net-Runner said in Views on Halizard:

@KOOLER said in Views on Halizard:

We'll keep free version CLI-managed, like Hyper-V is. Initially Linux-based VSA with a web mgmt will be free as well

That's awesome! Do you have any ETA's yet?

Mid-January 2017.

P.S. I hope so ;)))

@Dashrender I'm not sure. I think it was for a timeclock so they just wanted something setup quickly. I don't even know if he's the person who did the initial install. We took over for another company and are still finding stuff.--