@scottalanmiller What is the best backup strategy?
Snapshot of VMs and workstations + backups of both, and comply with the 3-2-1 rule?
Or is there a better alternative?

I use it for Jellyfin

@scottalanmiller said in Uptime Kuma - Self Hosted Monitoring:

If you want a dashboard, Netdata does that out of the box. If you want a pretty dashboard for Zabbix, then that's when Grafana is going to shine. Build an amazing sexy dashboard for your Zabbix data on Grafana to make management happy about a monitoring solution.

I've had some fun with Grafana, Telegraf, and InfluxDB but it's been a while.
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The above were done during one of our SMB S2D cluster proof runs. Grafana was great for helping to pinpoint what was going on while it was happening. We were able to do some pretty good tuning to pull off great IOPS and Throughput numbers from a little Intel Xeon E3 single socket platform with SATA SSDs for cache and SAS HDDs for capacity.

@dafyre Connection closed by foreign host after a couple seconds lol

@jasgot said in Nextcloud 23:

You'd think they would use the same name for everything and outline the steps somewhere to get is all installed properly. Sheesh!

I noticed the same mess. They have had this all screwed up for some time. It makes no sense and there is no automatic dependency handling or clear guidance.

@gjacobse said in Why was the BSOD Blue?:

@dashrender said in Why was the BSOD Blue?:

@gjacobse said in Why was the BSOD Blue?:

The (BSOD) thing is - that for some reason I can't play any YT video some parts of the day. Open anything and all you get is the swirly loading icon. But, you can click the timeline and see that content is there, regardless of browser... And no one can tell me why - as we don't block it or throttle it. People are playing Spotify at the same time - so it's bandwidth issue either.....

I've had issues like that before too - never found a solution.

I would test cross platform, but since I get 'yelled at ' for Powershell, I'm not putting Linux on the network.

Not to give your network / sec guys any problems, but run it in VirtualBox with the network set to NAT... then from the perspective of the ones doing the yelling it should only be seen as just another app.

@stuartjordan said in Neglect in the highest? Shocking!:

How can this still be happening in nearly 2022.

Because these aren't IT pros or IT firms. These are VARs scamming customers.

Just a heads up on this. If you select their Ampere Arm processor you can have 4CPU with 24gb ram for free as well. VM has boot of 50GB but you can addon block storage for free up to 200GB I believe.

Ampere A1 Compute instances (Arm processor): All tenancies get the first 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month for free for VM instances using the VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape, which has an Arm processor. For Always Free tenancies, this is equivalent to 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of memory

@scottalanmiller said in Edgerouter X - Small Office:

@jaredbusch said in Edgerouter X - Small Office:

@krzykat said in Edgerouter X - Small Office:

@scottalanmiller said in Edgerouter X - Small Office:

@stuartjordan said in Edgerouter X - Small Office:

@scottalanmiller Thanks for the suggestion Scott.

No problem.

The "4" is a really nice unit. Still small, but really powerful.

This really is your only choice right now if buying from UI direct. It's the only router they have available in stock. Is there a link to "Jared's test" ?

Posted somewhere on this forum.

The ERL gets ~60mbps with QoS enabled. I honestly cannot recall what the ER-X did. I thought it was in the 150mbps range, but my memory is not the best thing in the world.

It IS a little faster than the ERL, faster CPU. Less RAM, though, so some features can cause it to struggle.

QoS and other non-offloaded things are all CPU constrained. Unless you load up extra processes on anything in the ER line, you will not typically run into any kind of memory constraint.

@stuartjordan I seem to recall this being one of the reasons I got away from KDE a while back. Some quick google work shows that it might be solved by using kio-fuse but YMMV.

K3B was my go-to app back in the day and it looks like it's still somewhat actively maintained

@stuartjordan said in Hyper V Server - Goodbye:

So No More Hyper-V-Server: https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/31/hyper_v_server_discontinued/

I have been using proxmox and XCP-NG for quite a while now with no issues. Whats your view on this move made by Microsoft. You have support until 2024 on the 2019 edition.

This is sad, but not surprising. You pay per core per month for Azure stack HCI (the replacement) according to what I found quick.

@jaredbusch said in So Windows 11??:

@dashrender said in So Windows 11??:

@siringo said in So Windows 11??:

@pete-s said in So Windows 11??:

@nadnerb said in So Windows 11??:

Not impressed. Have to replace my CPU (Ryzen 5 1600) if I want to upgrade.
Yeah yeah, TPM blah blah blah. Still not happy about it. I've only had the CPU for 3 years.

Granted I don't have to move until 2025 (WIN10 EOL) if I want to retain my hardware that long.
Just irritated that I can't upgrade straight away.

These requirements may not seem too strict, but having a look at the list of supported processors, you’ll notice that the 1st Gen AMD Ryzen CPUs aren’t supported, and the 2nd Gen Zen+ processors are a bare minimum on AMD’s end and the 8th Gen Kaby Lake-R is the least supported on Intel’s end. Keep in mind that although the OS will run on systems using older processors, it’s “not recommended”. Microsoft’s list of supported processors doesn’t make sense as there’s little to no difference between the 1st and 2nd Gen Ryzen processors. Similarly, the Kaby Lake-R (8th Gen Intel Core lineup) is essentially a rebranding of the 7th Gen offerings.

BBQ Sauce: https://www.hardwaretimes.com/windows-11-wont-support-1st-gen-amd-ryzen-processors-tpm-required/

More Dipping Sauces

Supported AMD CPUs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-11-supported-AMD-processors Supported intal CPUs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-11-supported-intal-processors

It's called planned obsolescence. It's not done for any technical reason whatsoever, so looking for what makes "sense" doesn't make sense.

This @Pete-S you're spot on. It's just about making more money. If the software is kept up to date security wise, why would anything ever need to be replaced/updated, but we all know that.

When's the release date for 11?

Oct 2021

Right is is simply Windows 10 21H2 with a new GUI and rebranded as Windows 11

As far as I've heard, they are releasing both - Windows 11 and Windows 10 21H2.

@stuartjordan this looks neat, I will try it with Linux.

@marcinozga said in Resize Linux VM Ext4 File System Proxmox:

I see few issues above.

LVM is not a filesystem. You don't need to shutdown VM to extend its disk size. You don't need to boot from any installer CD to resize partitions, you can do it from within live system with fdisk, although if you have some unusual partition layout you're probably better off doing it offline. You can also extend filesystem on a live system, no need for shutdown.

correct, didn't think properly when I wrote that. Logical volumes can be put into logical groups that could contain pools of hdd's that can be sees as one, can also move space around easier and have snapshots. I had errors when trying to write the new partition layout hence why I used a live CD. Probably could of looked into it more but didn't want to spend forever on it or mess up any partition data.

@stuartjordan said in Handy Linux Utilities:

Why we must warn people not to use non encrypted traffic:
Do Not Use Telnet,Ftp or standard http

Here we will do an arp poison man in the middle attack to see another devices traffic on the same network. when we just had hubs this was easier now we have switches we have to use this method:

apt install wireshark (Graphical) apt install nmap apt install etttercap-text-only (there is a graphical version, this is cli only) sudo nmap -sn 192.168.1.0/24 descover hosts IP and mac addresses / pick a host. sudo ettercap -T(txt only) -S(no ssl) -i(interface) wlan0 -M(man in the middle attack) arp:remote /192.168.1.1(router)// //192.168.1.8//(person to attack) sudo wireshark then apply filter ip.addr = 192.168.1.8 obviously cannot see inside encrypted ssl traffic. but we can see plain text packets by applying filter ip.addr == 192.168.1.8 && http save in wireshark as pcap file visit website a-packets.com - generates a report for free. to see telnet as it's clear text use filter = wireshark filter ip.addr = = 192.168.1.8 && telnet

I had a student do this to the student network at my last job. Everybody would complain about slow network in one building but by the time I could go check it, it was fine again. I figured out what he was doing and some switches have stuff built in to combat this (you just have to turn it on).

@marcinozga said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

@dashrender said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

@marcinozga said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

@dashrender said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

@marcinozga said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

@irj said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

One of my buddies who just bought NVME drives for this purpose, has only been using them for a week and is at 72% life left.

Consumer or enterprise drive? It could simply be bad unit. Although I do hope mining wears the drives that fast. Hardware manufacturer should put a clause in warranty, that mining voids it. What happened with GPU market is just insane, ordinary people get screwed over. Crypto needs heavy regulation or just outright ban.

man, someone doesn't like Crypto.

And what's to like? Mining wastes crazy amounts of energy for some useless calculations. In the end you have what exactly? Some string of characters. But cyber junkies need their fix too I guess.

We'll definitely have to disagree here. Am I happy about the shear amount of power being used to mine BTC? no, I'm not... but currency that's not controlled by the rich and powerful or the government, one that can't be devalued just by them turning the printing presses on? HELL YEAH I'm all for that.

Currency that can be devalued with a few tweets is better?

I love that there are idiots that listen to tweets whether it's buy or sell. When everyones buying I'm selling and vice versa. If you would have bought yesterday you'd be up big time today.