Posts made by bbigford

@scottalanmiller The remote server is administered by a different company. I was told just a few minutes ago that they haven't asked... Told them to use rsync but haven't heard back yet.

Hey you experts! A Linux admin of ours is having an issue copying a file via scp from one server to another remote server. Here's the script they are using:

[root@ourftpserver msftp]# cat transfer_cdr.sh 
#!/bin/bash 
for i in `find /home/msftp/cdr -type f -ctime -1`
  do
    sshpass -p 'mypassword' scp $i [email protected]:/
  done

Any ideas what is wrong? I'm told going the RSA route isn't possible at this time or we'd try that.

Got it solved. I started pointing them at a new server (basically starting from scratch). Still got some inconsistencies but that was resolved by toggling the agent to the new server (after I already pointed it at it). Then I fixed the last couple with a disk allocation mod. What a mind-blowing, super frustrating piece of software.

@Reid-Cooper Nothing that was sticking out like a sore thumb. I also went ahead and ran a vssadmin list writers and it processed zero errors (thinking maybe there was a problem with shadow copy). At this point, they basically have no backups so I'm debating moving the backups and replicating a fresh start.

I didn't use Studio, I did it via command line (System, then bare metal). System state took up a bunch of space, then got an error was not enough space available. I increased the size and the command executed successfully, but still same issue. I can try a manual backup via Studio though, shouldn't be any different though...? The only thing left I could think of is that box has 32GB and there is something to the tune of 30DBs on that VM. DPM has only 4GB allocated to it, which is pegged. I was thinking maybe the backup was queuing up and timing out. The consistency check fails within 10 seconds though. I do understand that SQL and Exchange are much alike and will peg any amount of ram on a server but I questioned the amount of ram in that config. Right now, we don't have more in place to allocate. It is on order, but looking for an answer sooner than that. That server only has SQL running on it.

I should also note, not all the DBs on that VM are failing checks. Only about 1/3 of the DBs are not backing up successfully.

Hey pros, I need your help.

I'm beating my head against a wall now, as I've nearly exhausted ideas for this. On our System Center Data Protection Manager 2010, there are some inconsistencies. We get errors on the SQL databases/protected members saying "Replica is Inconsistent". This is happening on SQL2014 on a 2012R2 box, as well as a SQL version that is a few years old on a 2008R2 box. Through a lot of online research, I've:

*Enabled Windows Backup Services on both the source and target.

*Ran a consistency check.

*Checked the drive space (expanded it another 150GB last night).

*Rebooted the hosts.

*Deleted/re-added to the protection group.

The only thing we haven't done is completely delete the protection groups and start from scratch. That obviously is not ideal but we're getting there. Everything online that I've read, I've tried. Can't think of anything else!

@scottalanmiller said:

@BBigford said:

Since you're using workstation. You can launch VMware Workstation and you should be open on the "Home" tab. From there you can choose the Physical to Virtual option (P2V) and go through the process steps accordingly.

I think that that only applies to converting to ESXi.

It sounded like he was working within VMware Workstation (for whatever the reasoning) and moving to Hyper-V instead of continuing with a VMware hypervisor. I figured OP could convert the server to virtual, then import it into Hyper-V. I think I should have simply recommended Disk2VHD instead and cut out VMware as the middle man...

Since you're using workstation. You can launch VMware Workstation and you should be open on the "Home" tab. From there you can choose the Physical to Virtual option (P2V) and go through the process steps accordingly.

A SpiceMember at our local SpiceCorps just got back from DEF CON. Got some official swag, always good. That bit about controlling a car is something I was waiting to happen. Pretty messed up.

@coliver @scottalanmiller
Ah, good to know. I haven't had a ton of experience with Asterisk yet since our area doesn't warrant it's use. Just heard about it. That would explain my first reply being less educated on it.

If a budget is of concern, the most budget friendly is to bring a brown bag lunch. It is more professional to leave the premises and eat that elsewhere. A park, or other public place. Though many SMB clients don't care, it looks tacky. Having said that, when consultants travel to a large scale environment, a break room is usually available, and is readily offered within the confines while not appearing tacky. Many road warriors will take clients to lunch on company dollar, if that is not the case, the previous recommendations apply.

On a side note, have you ever checked out Asterisk? Depending on the area, they may not be able to be ported (our environment was only able to be serviced by Ednetics through Cisco gear based on a monopoly for the area).

Thanks, Scott! Took your recommendation to check out ML. Looking forward to a good forum outside of Spiceworks. I really like the posting format on mobile. Incredibly well laid out.