I've run Veeam both (in the past for over a year) on a VM on one of my hosts and now on a physical server. The latter is recent and I'm doing B2D2T and my LTO hangs off the physical server. Just was a free box. Whether physical or virtual, definitely keep the backup config in a different location. With that, it really doesn't take long to get it back somewhere else. My target is still a NAS using CIFS, but that will change probably when I redo my storage and hosts. You get a decent performance boost by using it as a iSCSI target vs CIFS. Mine works fine with the latter, so YMMV.

@alex.olynyk They are all in the database. Assuming you used MariaDB/MySQL then jsut back it up like any other database

I'm on 4.13, which might be where the issue lies.

In the Vm it actually "removes" the device, (not sure about in the device manager) but it's still accessible to the VM to be enabled later.

So that works for me.

@Dashrender said:

Most storage devices in this range also lack the support options that enterprise servers do.

This sentence is the third italicized block of text seems odd.

Fixed, thanks.

@Carnival-Boy said:

I don't think either are relevant or realistic in the real world. Yes, you can define the cost of providing certain HA solutions, but by definition HA doesn't prevent downtime, it only mitigates against it (hence the word "High" rather than, say, "Total"), so you'd still be asking "What kind of budget do we have to reduce our risk of downtime" and not "to prevent downtime".

And it is specific to "layers". For example, most people in the SMB talk about HA only in terms of the platform layer and ignore the apps, OSes, storage, power, cooling, access, network, etc. It's a myopic view. They mitigate almost no risk yet feel that they have moved from "so risky I'd never do it" to "so safe I never have to think about it" and yet, almost nothing has changed.

The entire drive for HA is often an emotional response. We have been taught to fear a server failing, so we over compensate and try to fix that one, moderately small risk without addressing anything else.

@scottalanmiller said:

Sorry, SSD cache.

I seriously thought there was something else SSH must stand for.

Some other pluses for this are easy setup for HBAC, Sudo and sudo command priveleges (host based and user based), SELinux user maps, and easier password policy management.

Fonts should never come as an .exe - if they do run away.

They come as native font files, you then install them based on the OS, either Mac or Windows does this easily

thanks, fixed.

Very nice.

@LAH3385 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@LAH3385 said:

Let's not get too technical.. My real question is the ability to expand/shrink on the fly/VM stay online. I know for a fact that Gen1 cannot do that.. thus the question about conversion.

But do you have teh space for two copies during the operation? That's a key piece of why it is important.

Good question... we are 60% of the disk at the moment... so that would be no. The space inside VM it self is 50% full.. Say 2TB disk space on hypervisor. the VM is uing 1.2TB. But the OS/Files is using only 600GB out of 1.2TB.
If the cloning means 100% identical then I will not have enough space. But if there is a way to shrink while cloning then it is a viable option.

This also means you're using thick provisioning.

Perhaps you can copy the current VM disk to another VM disk, but one that is thin provisioned. Then it will only take up 600 GB on the disk, leaving you with 2 GB free space until you delete the old VM disk.

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

We've been expansionist for a long time. The war of 1812 was the result in part of US Expansion.

Are you sure? The Second War of Independence was a defensive war. We had the population being taken for slaves, that wasn't going to stand (strangely.)

I always thought that was small part of it. The bigger parts, from my reading, was the US expansion westward, which resulted in fighting from British supported Native American tribes, and the trade embargoes setup by the British Empire on US interests in Europe.

Hard to say 201 years later, but that always seems to have been a very minor factor.

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Though MS I'm sure has been gun shy to include these types of services for fear of being called a monopoly like in the 90's.

Quality does not get them in trouble for anti-trust.

No, including options so no other options are needed does - i.e. IE. How does including a PDF reader not make them act just like they were when IE was bundled in (oh I mean like now :P) Notice how they aren't gunshy anymore... they now have a built in PDF reader.

The bit we were discussing was the need for one to be locked down while the other does not.

@BBigford It does everything automatically, via GPO, not really one at a time. LAPS prevents each local admin from having the same password. Obviously, if you want everything to be the same then you wouldn't want to use it.

EDIT: You can still use the bat file (mentioned above) if you want to create a specific user with a specific password and assign it to the local admins group. Keep in mind that it is plain text, as was the method you were previously using.

@travisdh1 said:

@johnhooks The difference is 6 compared to a half dozen (at least in this case.)

I used to know a reason why you would use less or more in certain cases, but it's been so long that I no longer remember what caused a difference.

I know of no case where you use more. I always used it because I learned it first, but less is the only one you would actually want to use.

With all of the tack on options.. E3 really is where MS wants everyone. ug!

@scottalanmiller
None of that was covered, though. No amount of Windows, AD or SMB covers that. Only NTFS ACLs provide that. You can do with with actual NTFS or you can do it with Linux VFS and an NTFS ACL layer. Either way, works the same. But the only device that can give you ACLs is the device providing SMB. So the Synology NAS in the example.

Understood! Thank you sir.

Finally decided what to use. Going to have my dad setup Flickr albums for his project.