@travisdh1 said in Backup Systems without on-site external storage: @scottalanmiller said in Backup Systems without on-site external storage: @black3dynamite said in Backup Systems without on-site external storage: @scottalanmiller said in Backup Systems without on-site external storage: @black3dynamite said in Backup Systems without on-site external storage: @obsolesce said in Backup Systems without on-site external storage: I've recently come across Restic and looks great: Site: https://github.com/restic/restic Documentation: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ I haven't tried it yet, but it's on my list to try on my KVM server using Google's cloud as a test. I’ve only tested it with backing up nextcloud user data and it’s been working great so far. What are you backing up to? I only tried an external hard drive and sftp to a Linux Server. I would like to try Backblaze. I would like to check out Wasabi. At first glance, https://wasabi.com/pricing/ looks like it could be a little cheaper than B2. Would definitely be cheaper if you need to download significant amounts often. That was its selling point - a bit cheaper than even B2, but with full S3 compatibility.

@scottalanmiller said in Find Source of Windows Mapped Drives: @jaredbusch said in Find Source of Windows Mapped Drives: Doing @powershell, you probably need to handle escaping quotes or something is all. Likely https://docs.connectwise.com/ConnectWise_Control_Documentation/Get_started/Host_page/Run_a_command_from_the_Host_page#Use_Powershell

@obsolesce said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: @dbeato said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: @obsolesce said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: @dbeato said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: @obsolesce said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: @dbeato said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: Plus MD1000 are for older SANs... eh? It's just extending the internal storage... externally, hence "DAS". It has tons of use cases. It does, but they MD1000s were mainly setup for SAN devices in mind. Yeah they can also be attached to servers as well which is not bad either. Just not my preference, nothing wrong with that. Not sure what you mean, a DAS is a DAS... MD1000, MD3000, MD1200, MD1400... whatever. They are simply (as what Dell calls them, @scottalanmiller , not me) "Server JBOD Expansions". They aren't specific to SAN use and are not SANs. Okay, I am not trying to go in a tangent and go in argument with you. Why does it need to be this way? Reason for me saying that mainly Dell uses it for SANs see below: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/povw/powervault-md1000 You still can use them for servers for user. No arguing or disagreeing... I'm just not understanding where you're getting "SAN" from?

Yeah after my limited experience with this, not sure I would ever trust using a non-DELL drive. At least on a production system.

Here is a good example of why this is complex even for blind swap hardware RAID... it's not always clear what it is supposed to do. https://mangolassi.it/topic/17314/replaced-drive-in-pe-t410-not-adding-to-virtual-disk/

@travisdh1 said in Storage Setup for KVM: @emad-r said in Storage Setup for KVM: @eddiejennings keep your images and ISOs in the default location of /var/lib/libvirt/images/? Yes I do, but I create 2 new folders there, iso and vm. Fedora will be presented a 4 TB block device ? Why dont you separe that a little, and have more fun. Block device I assume DAS, if no why dont you make the storage reliable and robust, and make it its own server, like another fedora or centos install, with RAID 10 and the simplest option to share is NFS, and this way you can have many KVMs and the migration feature will actually work, and you can do RAID on just /var, and you scan scale easily with KVM nodes + KVM nodes can be state file, think salt stack, and you can treat them as pure compute nodes. Because @EddieJennings is talking about his home lab, which will consist of a single 1U server. That hadn't been mentioned in this thread. Bah! Folks should be able to read my mind ;). There were some good ideas in this thread though. What I decided on was giving enough space to / live comfortably, and gave everything else to /var.

@fuznutz04 said in Backup server comparison: @black3dynamite Ah yes, SLAT. Almost forgot about that. I ran into that trying to install HV 2016 on a REALLY old box for testing. I could install it, but that's where the story ended. If I get the E5620 or higher in the Xeon family, I think I should be fine. I know for sure that the E5620 works. I have them in my R710. The same thing happened to me. So it made my decision to use KVM even easier for what I was using the server for.

@scottalanmiller said in Seagate Shows Off World's Fastest Hard Drive: That's true, we are definitely getting to the point where we need faster ways to get data on and off of all drives. For sure, the data processing boards need a change too.

Maybe they just weren't ready for production yet.

@krisleslie said in Adding additional Drive to XenServer host, get error: @black3dynamite i use 1 hdd I meant virtual disks. VM1 with virtual disk 1 = OS and virtual disk 2 = data

@momurda said in Intel's NVMe VRoC System Now Out: If an SSD is rated at 1DWPD for 5 years and in actual use one only uses .2DWPD, does that mean that such an ssd would nominally last 25 years barring some other catastrophic hw failure not related to the destructive nature of flash program and erase cycles? All reliability is about chances of failure. So it’s likely to last that long.

@olivier Thanks for the feedback. Ok... so I see that @julien-f just pushed out new versions of xo-server and xo-web. Anyone care to elaborate on how we could properly script this so that a week from now you could pull the source from this particular point in time?

@jaredbusch said in NextCloud Automated Installation: ok fixed and merge req 3 made to @scottalanmiller's repo. https://gitlab.com/scottalanmiller/nextcloud_fedora_installer/merge_requests/3 It is now merged.

No experience with it, I'm afraid.

@popester said in Hybrid RAID SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller sounds like a "Hot Mess" Pretty much

Instantaneous Storage Evacuation Event

This is totally a coincidence that this was the next one up in the queue to post here. But talk about perfect timing! This came up at least three times today alone.

@scottalanmiller Thanks man!!! Review time.