@eddiejennings said in Text spacing and hyperlinks:

@dafyre said in Text spacing and hyperlinks:

What browser? I can confirm the issue on Firefox Quantum.

Test link: https://www.google.com

Bah. I was being a n00b. Chrome 62.

The spacing issue is here. Again, this is a issue only here.

I have an account but I haven't had a need to use it.
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@scottalanmiller said in In Demand Jobs / Positions:

aptitude

https://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/tests/computer-test.htm Well, of the first 8 questions I was able to answer, I got them right, but since I only answered 8, I was in the 12 and below range. I guess I practice what I preach to my saxophone students. "Accuracy over speed." 😛

@scottalanmiller said in Appropriate Use of Hyper-V Checkpoints:

@eddiejennings said in Appropriate Use of Hyper-V Checkpoints:

@jaredbusch said in Appropriate Use of Hyper-V Checkpoints:

@eddiejennings said in Appropriate Use of Hyper-V Checkpoints:

With this upcoming project of virtualizing our production stuff, I've been thinking through the appropriate use of checkpoints. I'm sure there are other articles on this, but this seemed to be a good read.

My grand idea is that checkpoints would be used before installing Windows updates or some upgrade to an application. You take the checkpoint, apply the update, and if everything breaks, you apply the checkpoint. If nothing breaks, then you delete the checkpoint.

I'm curious how this would be handled with a SQL Server VM or Redis VM. You'd update your VM, transactions start happening, then things break causing you to have to apply the checkpoint. Any transactions that were done would be lost, which upon further thinking probably doesn't matter, since you probably couldn't trust any data put into the database while the stuff was in the process of breaking.

You have to make sure you don’t have transactions coming in. Simple as that. Anything is a headache waiting to happen.

Makes sense. When I do maintenance on these normally, I stop IIS once downtime’s been announced, then do my work. So I’d just take the checkpoints at that point. I imagine once stuffs back up and I confirm things aren’t broken, Hyper-V just handles merging the avhdx file in such a way that SQL Server, etc is none the wiser. Or is there significant risk of stuff breaking if it’s running while that merge process takes place?

No real risk. Just performance loss.

And never enought to matter to any SMB workload I have ever had to deal with.

@nashbrydges said in Backing up user data on remote computers:

@scottalanmiller said in Backing up user data on remote computers:

@eddiejennings said in Backing up user data on remote computers:

@scottalanmiller said in Backing up user data on remote computers:

@eddiejennings said in Backing up user data on remote computers:

@scottalanmiller said in Backing up user data on remote computers:

@eddiejennings said in Backing up user data on remote computers:

@scottalanmiller said in Backing up user data on remote computers:

@eddiejennings said in Backing up user data on remote computers:

@scottalanmiller said in Backing up user data on remote computers:

We use NextCloud, then only back that up, not the remote user devices.

Are you running your instance of NextCloud in a VPS with extra block storage for your files, or using their enterprise plan?

We run out own.

Forgive me for seeming thick, but you mean on your own hardware in your office or at a data center?

We never run on premises for production.

I figured not; thus, they're at a colo.

No, we use cloud computing.

Somehow I'm confused, so you are running your NextCloud in a cloud server instance like Vultr?

Of course.

I'm assuming you're using the native sync clients? Are you using both Windows and Linux clients or just Linux? I've tried the Windows one on a couple laptops and found that the synching was really clunky and not working well. Have you run into any issues?

Both. All Linux internal, it's rock solid. Some Windows for external users, and they do have some issues. But... that's expected, it's Windows.

@scottalanmiller said in SQL Server Backup Design:

@jaredbusch said in SQL Server Backup Design:

@tim_g said in SQL Server Backup Design:

I'm with Jared on this one...

Backing up through the application layer (SQL) as often as you can depending on change frequency. For example, every 15 minutes.

Hourly and daily through the SQL backup tools.

At least daily full VM backup at the hypervisor level.

I prefer backups that use a standard file format, so you don't have to rely on Veeam for example to restore it. Veeam has screwed up too many times for me to want to rely on it like that.

I have never had been fail

Except for statements like this.

For some reason Siri does not like Veeam yet. Even though correct it a lot

Right, NIC Teaming is not a Hyper-V feature. There is almost no reason to do it that way.

Also, you don't want to use "Hyper-V" load balancing after Windows Server 2012. Starting with 2012 R2, Dynamic is the preferred algorithm. Only in super rare cases would you use any other algorithm.

@tim_g said in Storage for On-site Backups:

Otherwise, unless you can get a direct 1gb or 10gb network connection, backup times will suck.

Just an FYI, this also may completely depend on your backup software too.

But if using a software backup appliance such as unitrends on a VM, you'd want to have the storage local to the Unitrends VM for example.

All the time. I only know this from having to log in every time the firewall gets behind and blocks the remote phones using responsive firewall.

I do think FreePBX is great, don't get me wrong. These are some the reasons I still prefer a freeswitch based deployment and enforcing domains as part of authentication. Almost all attempts to brute force authenticate are dropped simply because they don't know the domain (realm) being used and they quickly give up.

There is a lot more that I like over FreePBX in my current setup but that has more to do with trying to be a service provider.

For a single installation my only gripe is the way the firewall works, how do people use Bria and roam around. That being said they could close that gap at any moment and my only complaint would be the delicacy of updating systems or uploading the wrong format of an audio file. Which apparently only bigbear has ever had problems with. Lol.

@scottalanmiller said in I Can’t Even for Job Postings:

We kind of do, a fake job posting list.

Then I’ll find it and contribute as o do my search 🙂

@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

@bigbear said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

@reid-cooper said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

@bigbear said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

Good point, is there a reason that you don't just grow the storage?

Not possible with Vultr instance, right? Have to expand while virtual machine?

With Vultr, you can add block storage on a per GB bases as needed. So yes, you can do it with Vultr without expanding the VM itself.

Yeah I guess he is probably in NJ data center. I've only used block storage in winblows server. Not sure how you'd move that location in FreePBX.

LVM

Yep, I did this exact thing on a server with Vultr block storage. It is super easy. Purchase it, attach it to the server, create a mount point and mount the new storage device (shows up as another drive), then done.

In FreePBX Advanced settings, you can even specify an alternative destination for voicemails.

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX CDR and CEL Analysis:

@eddiejennings A unique ID is a call. How wold you think that it is not a valid representation of calls?

Yeah. . . I was having a dumb moment yesterday. I've actually taken a step back and asked the user to review with me what information they're actually wanting. I'm taking the angle of "now that we have FreePBX, let's see if [your information needs] can be better met."

IMHO, dispersing the storage between the hosts and configuring data replication between them would be the best option.

Creating several tiers for the migration of your VMs is always nice to have - downtime strikes unexpectedly.

Link was great, now I think I get what was going on with ls -fy > file 2>&1.

Bash points the stdout file descriptor to file, and then duplicates stderror to stdout, which is already pointing to file.

@coliver said in Fax Service:

@dashrender said in Fax Service:

@coliver said in Fax Service:

@dashrender said in Fax Service:

@eddiejennings said in Fax Service:

I'm testing voip.ms's email to fax service. One immediate challenge is training users to send it plaintext E-mails or get them to delete all of the images from our default E-mail signature. >(

Is it possible to have the email server strip that when sending to a specific address?

Depends on the email server. Office365/Exchange Online can be configured to forced to send plain text emails to specific addresses IIRC.

What happens in those cases when you have a PDF or a Word doc attached?

Attachments would still be attached I believe. Could be wrong never had to do it.

I can speak only to RingCentral's service, but if you have text in the body, whether it be a signature or logo or anything in the body, it will try to print that extra text out on a separate page in the fax. Looks messy. We initiate ours through email and we have a fax cover letter template that users can fill out electronically and then also attach whatever they're wanting to send, preferably in PDF format. So generally it's sent to ### @ rcfax.com, and then 2 attachments, one for cover letter and one for the actual item being sent. Putting something in the subject line messes things up as well.

@storageninja said in Resume Critique:

@eddiejennings said in Resume Critique:

I'm still young within my IT career, so it's not going to be possible for me to craft an impressive, look-at-what-all-I-have-built-and-managed resume and have that resume be connected to reality at this time.

It is not about age or time in the field. I had a resume better than most people with 10-15 years experience less than 3 years in the field. Find the right job (Consulting for a partner/VAR/MSP) and this can change VERY VERY quickly.

And focus on your lab, and what’s missing from your resume.

One more little tidbit of information. I can replicate the spike by viewing the Connectivity > Firewall page(s).

The resellers used to do it manually and charged $1 a phone, which is why I think adoption stalled. Plus documentation is horrible. Once you are in the portal its pretty obvious what can be done.

I have linked my GUI so that when you add a phone's mac address to my service it uses Yealink API to automatically configured RPS.

@bigbear said in WordPress Hosting:

Are you still doing hostadillo @scottalanmiller ?

Yup, sure are!

Not that there is much that can be done about it.