This is a really hard question to answer. Especially as IT is so large and broad. What is hip and current in the SMB is old hat in the enterprise, for example.

I have been using your software for awhile and am thrilled with it. So happy to have you hear!

Urrrrr.....................😕

a major thing on my #ToDoList

@Lakshmana said in Samsung Galaxy J7 Issue:

@scottalanmiller I know this is the issue in the phone i have moved only but the issue comes that is the different thing i seen the phone now

No, it's not an issue with the phone

You MOVED the files. Not copied. That means ONE SINGLE instance of the files.

You then deleted said Instance of the files.

Then you're surprised there isn't a copy anymore..?

Just because the photo's show up in your photo's app doesn't mean they're not on the SD Card. If it's a decent Android it keeps showing the files in the same way, just moves the physical location. So either you moved it and deleted it, or you didn't move it and deleted it anyway. There is no other answer.

Solution: Did you have a backup to a PC? Google Drive? If not, then you might be out of luck.

Yeah, annoying that it tries to run that when it is unnecessary and doesn't work. Could always track down the script and limit when it is run. But once you know it's just pointless errors, it's not a big deal.

@Dashrender said in Replacing the Dead IPOD, SAN Bit the Dust:

@scottalanmiller said in Replacing the Dead IPOD, SAN Bit the Dust:

Also the needs of a SAN are different than the needs of a LAN. So you likely want different switches. I'd love Netgear Prosafe unmanaged on my SAN but would generally prefer Ubiquiti EdgeSwitches on my LAN.

Any opinion on Unifi Switches yet?

We use one in the lab and it's been great, but we aren't pushing its limits or anything.

@Ambarishrh said in Scoop- Chocolatey alternative:

How is Scoop different to Chocolatey?

Doesn't pollute your path. Where possible, Scoop puts your program shims in a single directory and just adds that to your path

Doesn't use NuGet. NuGet is a great solution to the problem of managing software library dependencies. Scoop avoids this problem altogether: each program you install is isolated and independent.

These two seem to be at odds with one another - if not, please educate me.
I suppose the "where possible" is the exception ; 🙂

@momurda said in Backup solutions for Xenserver:

@jrc
I use the Unitrends virtual appliance, and I am still loving my Unitrends setup. I'm not sure what you mean that XS is an afterthought for Unitrends. They are 1 out of about 3 vendors that support XS. Every problem(2) I have had with it in the last 8 months has been my fault. I am only backing up about 10TB and 40 or so vms though, perhaps your environment is a lot larger.
0_1479151442310_upload-b207f1a4-d4a0-44bd-9d25-15ad10fdac05 This is with 1 gbit interface between xs and ueb
It does do dedupe very well. I usually get about 40-60MB/s backup speed on full backups. Agent backups seem to be a bit slower.
With XS and unitrends you have to have your network interfaces setup correctly in XS and the Unitrends appliance, or all sorts of stuff doesn't work well, or at all. You also need to make sure you aren't trying to backup too many vms at once on the same SR, which can lead to tapdisk unpause errors, tapdisk timeouts and other bad things. This seems to be a limitation of XS 6.5, not sure if 7 is better.
My UEB has an interface on Network 0(mgmt. iface) of the XS host. And one other that is on another subnet so I can easily connect to the web server.

My environment is much smaller than yours, I have 12 or so VMs with about 6Tb of data. I do stagger the backups so that I do not go over the max connected VHDs to the appliance.

When you say that the network interface has to setup right, what do you mean? My appliance just uses the network gang I have (4x1Gb NICs) that is also used by all the other machines and as the management interface.

The main problem I've had was that it would error out during a backup, but that error would cause my SR to then fill up with snapshots, which then caused more errors in Unitrends since it would never detach the VHD or do any cleanup. When they looked through the logs they would then blame it on the Xenserver error and more or less stop supporting it at that point. The main error was SR_Backend_Failure_46, which I was able to trace back to the fact that the backups were failing.

Here's my setup:
2 Xenservers with an HP SAN for storage (connected via 8Gb/s fiber, in multipath mode). My backup target is a Dell server running Ubuntu with a single NFS share created. The appliance is using NFS as the protocol for backup.

The latest issue is that the appliance just sort of stops backing things up, as well as sending out emails about any failures or anything. And when I go to look at it I can see there are 4 or 5 machines queued and one or two just sitting there at some percentage and just not moving forward at all. I have not really bothered to call them on this, since I suspect they're going to just go have me re-install and re-impliment it again (for the 6 or 7th time in a year), I have just not had the time with our new school opening up.

At this point, even if they were to fix it, I am not sure that I would trust it. I mean PHD Virtual worked perfectly and reliably, but Unitrends 9 has only worked for me a total of about a month out of the last 12, and I don't have the time to spend hours and hours on the phone asking them to fix something that is clearly broken on their end.

To their credit, they have really gone out of their way to try and help me on this. So their support is top notch, I just wish their product was better.

@Dashrender said in OpenVPN and Andriod Mobiles:

@iroal said in OpenVPN and Andriod Mobiles:

Right now I'm connected to Openvnp, in a Pfsense, and sending you this message all from my android Phone.

I use OpenVnp 0.6.60 for Android.

His problem isn't using OpenVPN from his android device. His issue is split tunneling - or the ability to surf the web through his office network's internet connection.

I mean I connect from a Samsung S5 using OpenVpn App, the OpenVnp server It's the Pfsense.

Next renewal we will either get perpetual so we own, or go cloud where the price of the OS is included in the rental.

@scottalanmiller said in Need a DB option for archiving ecommerce data:

Nothing illogical about the relational, in fact, it's a "relationship" and exactly the kind of thing that relational databases are designed for. And since it is ecommerce data, it fits very, very much into the wheelhouse of relational. I'd argue that you are actually demonstrating the very use case that is where relational actually makes sense, rather than one where it doesn't.

Yes, this is very much a relational design.

If you have two DCs I'm not sure why you wouldn't setup DHCP failover it's a 5min setup. You already have DNS on both so why not protect from issues?

All of ours are loadbalanced/failover

@Veet said in Starting a Shared Web Hosting Company:

oooh ... you're entering a market that's already saturated with an entire smorgasbord of vendor types.. penetrating this market would be a challenge...

What is the key differentiator, that you have ?

It would've been nice to see what HTBase had to say, lol.

@momurda said in Printer Using WSD vs IP:

You can try disabling WSD on the printer itself, if it isn't a service for Windows to see perhaps it wont try to use it.

This is the same thing we do to avoid this nasty printer plague 😄

Correct, Stable 64bit.

The Optiplex 7040 only has a 285 watt PSU so I don't know if I am going to be able to go that route. I think I might be going back to workstation territory.

So how did your research of them go, @scottalanmiller ? I'm watching a webinar about their solution today just to do some R&D.

I bought the book My iPad for Seniors for my in-laws last year. They are in their 70's and he knows more about iOS than I do now 😉

@Dashrender said in How to recover system image from Windows 7 using the backup & restore app:

@StrongBad said in How to recover system image from Windows 7 using the backup & restore app:

@DustinB3403 said in How to recover system image from Windows 7 using the backup & restore app:

@scottalanmiller said in How to recover system image from Windows 7 using the backup & restore app:

@DustinB3403 said in How to recover system image from Windows 7 using the backup & restore app:

@art_of_shred said in How to recover system image from Windows 7 using the backup & restore app:

@Dashrender said in How to recover system image from Windows 7 using the backup & restore app:

I've never considered they wouldn't replace, say a bad motherboard, if you installed 3rd party RAM in it. Though considering this discussion now, I suppose they could try.

If they can find a way to blame it on the RAM, you bet.

Well don't go purchasing the $200 1TB ram kit, and you should be fine...

Get something reputable and with warranty of its own and generally you're OKAY.

HOw does cheap RAM burn out other components?

I was just using it as an example of crap hardware being purchased for the purposes of saving a few bucks.

Would using a cheap power supply have been a better example?

Are cheap power supplies commonly an issue with other components? I guess they might be. I don't hear about that happening.

They certainly can be. If a cheap power supply provides non clean power to say the mobo, it can kill it, and everything else.

One of my predecessors here was cheap, as in horribly, by the cheapest thing I can find on the internet cheap. The power supplies that came with the computers he ordered claimed to be 400W units. I think they were one of the brands that caught fire when tomshardware.com tested cheap power supplies.