Around that time is when we started to find Nethserver to be the more interesting project.

And Nethserver is active here, whereas Zentyal is not.

It would also be possible to break down the files with WinSCP and transfer them with FileZilla.

Get WinSCP: http://winscp.net/eng/index.php - "WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client and SCP client for Windows."

Add a Custom Command:
Code: rar a -r -m0 -v20m "!.rar" "!"
'Remote Command', 'Apply to Directories'... Add the Custom Commands toolbar.
This command will use Rar (install it on your server) to spit the file(s)/directory into 20mb numbered rar files using no compression, therefore very quickly. If you multi-select files, they'll each have their own multi-part rar file, nice.

We will still use Filezilla for transferring the files, using Simultaneous Transfers 😉 as it's by far the nicest/best working FTP client out there (even despite this missing, much needed functionality).

So now the every-day steps are:

Start WinSCP Log in to the server Browse to the file(s) Select them Click on the custom command's toolbar button ... it then gets to work processing (seconds or a minute perhaps)... Start Filesilla Log in to the server
8 ) Browse to the file(s) and the multi-part rars Select the rars Download them to the local machine ... watching the simultaneous transfers chomping thru the data! Unrar the local rar files when completed Delete the rar files from the remote server using WinSCP as it does it quicker.

Finished.

@dustinb3403 said in Cross-Post Hyper-V and Backup recommendations:

My question is, should I also run backup agents (I use Veeam), on the Hyper-V environments and back them up as if they were physical boxes? Or is the daily backup fine.

General practice is to not back up the host itself. You should have a process to rebuild the host and, in theory, this should be incredibly fast and simple. Since restoring bare metal is always a pain because you have to get the restore going without an agent, rebuilding a nearly stateless host is generally faster and simpler and doesn't require storage and management.

@scottalanmiller said in Linux Find command:

@dustinb3403 said in Linux Find command:

Hrm. . .

One more thing, would it be possible to print the last access date to this some how?

Possible, yes. Easy. No since the find command never shows that.

Would there be a better approach? I'm trying to create a list of things to make people clean up their crap, and I can show them "hey this hasn't been access in X years. . . delete it or I will"

@nerdydad said in Upgrading Firmware on Polycom:

I bricked mine trying to update it.

That's just not nice all around.

@dustinb3403 said in KVM in Production - Build it yourself:

Building a template VM with your backup agent installed might work (urbackup etc) as they'd register to your server.

Buy individual agents is again more than anyone really wants to manage.

I think we have two KVM backup discussions going on, so I'll post a link to my other reply here:

https://mangolassi.it/topic/15826/kvm-and-back-ups/23

@dafyre said in KVM and Back Ups:

@scottalanmiller said in KVM and Back Ups:

@dafyre said in KVM and Back Ups:

@scottalanmiller said in KVM and Back Ups:

@dafyre said in KVM and Back Ups:

In my experience with it, it has often corrupted randomly and to the point that it's own snapshots are no help, nor are VMware Snapshots.

How could it correct VMware snapshots?

I guess it's more that BtrFS doesn't detect the corruption early enough and our VMware snapshot are nothing but snapshots of corrupt data... That's about the only way I can explain it.

General risk with hypervisor level backups. This is a huge reason for either local file based or what I call devops backups. They are at a higher level, so there is way more opportunity for this.

But if the system was okay when you took the VMware snap, it should have been okay when you restored it. Regardless of corruption.

Yeah, exactly.... and this is why Snapshots are not a backup!

Snapshots absolutely are the backup mechanism.

@tim_g said in Beginner's Guide to KVM Administration:

@fateknollogee said in Beginner's Guide to KVM Administration:

@dustinb3403 said in Beginner's Guide to KVM Administration:

ssh-keygen -t rsa
The above generates the rsa keys required to connect without a password.

I'm using ecdsa (instead of rsa) per this info: Choosing an Algorithm & Key Size
ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -b 521

Nice. That's the equivalent to 15,360 bit RSA!

I want to see if e everything I use including GitLab can support that.

From my reading, it should.

@tim_g said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM:

@dustinb3403 said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM:

@tim_g said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM:

@dustinb3403 said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM:

@tim_g said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM:

@dustinb3403 said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM:

@jaredbusch said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM:

@DustinB3403

I use my user in the libvirt group so I do not have to bother with the root user.

gpasswd -a jbusch libvirt

Then this works.
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Holy fuck it took way to long to get to this point.

So here is the stupid approach. ssh-keygen -t rsa generating. . . . . . . . . The key fingerprint is . . . ssh-copy-id -i /home/user/.ssh/d_rsa.pub user@kvm-server-ip

Login with user@kvm-server-ip password

Test the login

Disconnect from the remote server and run this next bit on your management system.

gpasswd -a username libvirt

Done, and it works.

@JaredBusch thanks for cutting through the bullshit and helping out here.

Wyd you talking about. JARED mentioned that step like 3 posts down from your OP, and it was mentioned several other times as well.

Huh?

Nothing was as simple as what I just did, Jared was getting to the point at the top of the topic, but there were additional steps I was missing (failed to do entirely). So I dumped all of the rsa keys, and started fresh.

The whole thing is taht simple.

generate your ssh keys copy the ssh keys add to libvirt group (mentioned in beginning of thread and every other KVM related thread)

Done. You can break that up into as many sub steps as you want, but that's what you do.

nevermind. . .

That's the entire point i tried to make in my 5-steps before it getting ripped apart for me wanting to use 4096 instead of 2048, and not using ssh-copy-id.

Because you were a twit about it.

@rojoloco said in Charlie Rose - Suspended over Sexual Harassment Claims:

@eddiejennings said in Charlie Rose - Suspended over Sexual Harassment Claims:

@dustinb3403 said in Charlie Rose - Suspended over Sexual Harassment Claims:

@tim_g said in Charlie Rose - Suspended over Sexual Harassment Claims:

@dashrender said in Charlie Rose - Suspended over Sexual Harassment Claims:

@eddiejennings said in Charlie Rose - Suspended over Sexual Harassment Claims:

@dustinb3403 said in Charlie Rose - Suspended over Sexual Harassment Claims:

@eddiejennings said in Charlie Rose - Suspended over Sexual Harassment Claims:

@dustinb3403 said in Charlie Rose - Suspended over Sexual Harassment Claims:

@eddiejennings said in Charlie Rose - Suspended over Sexual Harassment Claims:

Just like all of the others (unless he admits guilt), he's not guilty in my mind until it's proven otherwise.

So Saddam Hussein was innocent of all of that?

Saddam Hussein was outside of the jurisdiction of the US and doesn't have any kind of due process protected by the Constitution. 🙂

Ok. . . so the US gymnastics head physicians are innocent until proven guilty of molesting the team members?

As far as the law is concerned, yes.

That's how US law works - or at least is supposed to!

Actually, innocence is usually bought if you have enough money. So, the whole system is broken.

This doesn't do anything to fix the damage to his reputation.

Yep. Even if he were to be exonerated, the court of public opinion gave its ruling the moment an allegation was made.

Exactly. Who is generally considered to be the murderer of Nicole Brown Simpson?

Considered = most would probably say OJ
Is = I think there was a story about him admitting it after he acquitted, but I think the story was debunked. If so, then "is" has no answer.

I found a solution to this, by manually enabling the functionality.

It sucks, but it works.

Highfive is a great product. I helped a client demo it, but they decided they did not want to get into actual video conference meetings after using it for a few meetings.

@dims said in Is the 3-2-1 rule antiquated?:

the majority of the previous cases of implementing such solutions indicates that the most popular would be the one where the data would first be replicated between 2 hosts, on site and one off prem.

Yes, because normally that is insant, you'd not want to wait for the WAN copy before making the local one.

@black3dynamite said in Snipe-IT php upgrade.php install:

@dustinb3403 said in Snipe-IT php upgrade.php install:

No denials found.

100% done found 0 alerts in /var/log/audit/audit.log

Is apache the owner of snipeit directory, subdirectories, and files?

apache : apache owns at least storage, which is where those files are. (I am a part of this group)

@jaredbusch said in Snipe-IT updating from 4.1.3 with new Laravel Requirement:

[root@assets ~]# cd /var/www/html/snipeit/ [root@assets snipeit]# git pull

Doh.. yeah my update script does this.

Guest additions are a big deal. It should have sped up considerably after you installed them.

@dustinb3403 You're welcome ! Glad you got it sorted.

well its the thought that counts to such a nice cause!

@tim_g

Hi, I'm working for Veeam.

Could you be a little bit more specific on the following, please?

When a newer version of Linux (kernel) arrives, the fix no longer works.

What distro do you use?

Many softwares are free that work on CURRENT OSs, that do not automatically break every time there's a new kernel release.

I'm not sure which softwares are you referring to, would you provide an example of a backup software that works on current (not stable) releases?

I asked in their community forum which person I need to private message for a fix this time... and they point me to support to fix a product that's WAY behind.

Did they (support) provide you with the wrong fix?

<...> especially with how they treat the whole issue on their forums.

This one is interesting - no one would point you to the support team for no reason. Whoever forwarded you apparently had an information that support had the fix. Would you give us the link to the forum message that you've mentioned? Also, what's wrong with going directly to support team to obtain a fix, especially if someone form the company advised you to do so?

And yes, Veeam Agent for Linux requires you to install a 3rd party (Veeam's) kernel module to make the thing work. Otherwise there would be no snapshot and CBT (changed block tracking) capabilities in the product.

Thanks

@stacksofplates said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@dustinb3403 said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@stacksofplates said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@dustinb3403 said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@stacksofplates said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@dustinb3403 said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@stacksofplates said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@dustinb3403 said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@scottalanmiller said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@dustinb3403 said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@stacksofplates said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@dustinb3403 said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@danp said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

Is the directory in your path? What do you get from echo $PATH?

echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin:/root/opt/scripts/:/root/opt/scripts

I've added it (twice).

Well first off you had /root/opt/scripts not /opt/scripts. Second you either have to log out and back in or tell your user to use the new path with something like

source ~/.bash_profile

I used ````~/opt/scripts``` initially, as I wasn't aware of just adding my scripts into one of the existing locations. (everything said just add a new directory).

By simply moving the script into an already existing path, I am able to update with just "script.sh".

When you are root and your home is /root and you put ~/opt/scripts that is /root/opt/scripts.

Remember that ~ is a shortcut to your home directory, which is /root

So by adding ```/opt/scripts/```` this would've worked, but would've added complexity for no reason.

No that still isn’t a default location. In the OP you said you put the script in /opt/scripts. Where did you actually put it?

Originally I created the directory /opt/scripts and put the script in there so the Directory looks like

/opt/scripts/script.sh

I went back and change the script location to be in /usr/local/bin

So in /usr/local/bin I now have script.sh

This now works without issue, and /opt/scripts no longer exists.

Ok ya that’s where the problem was. /opt/scripts is different than /root/opt/scripts. If you would have had that in your .bashrc or .bash_profile (or whichever shellconfigure you’re using) it would have worked. But you still have to let the user know of the PATH change.

I'm the user in this case, but I never really create / save my own scripts. I just got tired of running a set of commands, every other day.

Thus the need to figure out how I could run the script, without having to jump into the exact directory from which the script was saved.

I mean you have to let the user you are logged in as Know if the change. Either by logging out and back in or by temporarily sourcing the config.

I've logged out, what do you mean "sourcing the config" ?

If you change your PATH while you’re logged on the user account doesn’t know of that change. You have to either log out and log in again or temporarily do something like

source ~/.bashrc

Or the non-aliased version...

. ~/.bashrc