Posts made by handsofqwerty

@thecreativeone91 said:

@art_of_shred said:

The free 30-day trial UEB from Unitrends will protect virtual and physical, but the "Spicy UEB" (an offer made to those who are Spiceworks account holders), will only protect virtual, and only up to 8 sockets. Last I knew the generic "free UEB" was discontinued... back in October?

It's still here but, not really advertised you just use code "freeexi" I'm not sure if you are allowed to use it on anything but the free version of esxi or not (there are no clear terms posted) http://go.unitrends.com/unitrends-and-free-esxi

My ESXi is licensed and I use it without issue. Also, it will back up both physical and virtual machines with the free UEB.

@art_of_shred said:

I've seen times when this is pretty handy. For example: you have a local physical Unitrends appliance for backups, but no colo and can't stomach the Unitrends Vault 2 Cloud costs, but you can get storage on a virtual platform from another vendor, and maybe you already have something hosted there. You spin up the UEB, but you don't have full access to that network. You can use your other VM as a jump server in this way.

Also, I'm not 100% positive, but I'm pretty sure that a newly-deployed UEB will be on CentOS6.

Yes, new UEBs I believe are on CentOS 6, but my template is a couple years old at least.

Just finished writing a how-to for here!

So I've longed for a way to access my UEB locally via a local browser, basically so I didn't have to RDP to a machine with a GUI and THEN access it. It seems like an odd request, but I did find a way. I hope this is beneficial for anyone.

The trick lies in having a jump server on the same network as your Unitrends box, and using SSH tunnels. I have a jump server that I can access both over the WAN and over my Pertino VPN. You can use either PuTTY or KiTTY for this task. Once you've got the session info all setup, go to Connection > SSH > Tunnels. For the source port, you can technically use anything, but for my example I used 10001. Using something that nothing else will likely be using is a good idea.

The destination will be the IP of your Unitrends box followed by ":443". See example below.

Now, in order to access the Unitrends box, open your preferred browser and enter this (based on my example):

https://localhost:10001/recoveryconsole

If you simply enter https://localhost:100001, it will redirect to the URL you need but drop the :10001 which will not complete the connection, so make sure you keep whatever port you used on there. Bam! That's all you need to do! It's quite handy and I'm realizing how handy SSH tunnels are!

Thanks!

Trying to recover two articles I wrote last week for one of my sites and I'm pretty sure it's FUBAR'ed in this case...

I should add I also back this server up at the VMware level, but that backup was at 7AM as well. So that doesn't do me much good either...

Ok, so here's my issue...I goofed. I had my website running on my CloudatCost server for awhile, but I've requested my money back from them via Paypal. So I've moved back to using the server I host myself as my main server. Well, I forgot I had a script setup on my CloudatCost server that exported the databases from that server and SCP'ed them to my local server. Then I had a script setup combined with a cron job to automatically import them.

I wrote two articles on Thursday, May 8th. The articles were written between 10AM and 2PM. I have Unitrends backup my local server every day at 7AM and 7PM. The cron job to import them runs at 4AM and 4PM. Originally the backup was designed to make sure it had the latest. The problem is I wrote the articles on my LOCAL server, which means when it imported the SQL dumps from the CloudatCost server, it overwrote what I'd done.

I'm trying a restore from Thursday at 7PM on the off chance the connection failed and it didn't overwrite them. My question is if there is some way to do something similar to what VSS does in Windows on Linux. I understand this was entirely my fault and I'm taking steps to correct it, including I've disabled the import cron job on my local server. That being said, is there any possible I can recover that data if my backup doesn't have it? I know the answer is probably no, but if anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them! Thanks!

Veeam is great for a virtual environment, if you have the licensing for it. However, for a mixed environment, I would say get the free UEB from Spiceworks to deploy for now, and as they grow, maybe look into getting an actual Unitrends appliance.

At work. And thus another week begins.

Transferring about 100GB of video from my drives to my laptop's HDD as I won't have ready internet access for a couple days...

@scottalanmiller said:

Crazy cat lady started early...

@scottalanmiller said:

@handsofqwerty said:

@Lakshmana said:

@handsofqwerty Yes now it is working properly and now the service is started and I have joined this machine in nagios now.Thank you now it is working properly.

Ok, it's usually something simple like that. I run in root mode all the time on all my Linux machines, so I constantly forget to tell people to use "sudo" because I never have to...

One of the problems of coming from a "root" system like RHEL or CentOS and switching to a "sudo" system like Ubuntu. Need everything prefaced with sudo.

My issue is with the Wordpress utility for Linux that allows you to manage Wordpress via CLI. There are so many things you have to either be root or using sudo to do, but you have to append "--allow-root" to every freaking command that you run as root, even if the command requires root privileges to do what it needs to. It's so stupid!

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

They said you could have windows experience very only on in your career but, they are looking for an admin who is a Linux specialist who only touches Linux servers and has been for years. He said they are looking for a highly skilled specialist they do not want any generalists as in there experience they are sub par employees.

In my experience, this would be a sub-par employer.

Agreed. I understand they want someone who specializes in Linux, but to say that if they have Windows experience, that it disqualifies them? If they didn't have the adequate Linux experience, then that's fine. But simply having other experience disqualifying them is asinine. That's like a dealership saying "we want someone who knows how to fix Fords but if you've worked on Toyotas, you can't work here". I honestly can't think of a time when simply having experience is bad. If you learned something incorrectly or don't have the right type of experience, that's fine, but that's a separate issue. I'm pretty sure that @scottalanmiller could do any Linux job out there, but under this description, he wouldn't qualify for the job. Sounds like he's basically looking for either Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallman for the job. Not just someone with Linux experience, but a total Linux fanatic. An extremist. That's a dangerous thing to have, much less ask for!

@scottalanmiller said:

@handsofqwerty said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

I think what they mean is no Windows admins lacking Linux experience, but it's just badly written.

I don't know. It seems like they actually wanted someone without any Windows experience. Maybe they view it as a corrupting agent?

A taint. That's the strong impression that I got. They worded it very clearly. Not like in an odd way that could go either way. Seemed very intentional.

Yeah, that's the feeling I got too.

@Lakshmana said:

@thecreativeone91 version details came but i need to do it in shell scripting by the file in .sh method.I need this mozila not to update and also needs to be verified whether the specified version is present in the ubuntu machine

Well you have the command now. If you want a it to be a shell script, something like this will work...

#!/bin/sh
firefox -version

If you throw a "> /var/log/firefox-version.log" at the end of the command, it'll log it to a file for you too.

@Carnival-Boy said:

I think what they mean is no Windows admins lacking Linux experience, but it's just badly written.

I don't know. It seems like they actually wanted someone without any Windows experience. Maybe they view it as a corrupting agent?

If you want to get really fancy, you can pipe it to a grep and have it highlight where in the output it shows the version.

 firefox -version | grep "Mozilla Firefox"

This is the result:

@Lakshmana said:

@handsofqwerty Yes now it is working properly and now the service is started and I have joined this machine in nagios now.Thank you now it is working properly.

Ok, it's usually something simple like that. I run in root mode all the time on all my Linux machines, so I constantly forget to tell people to use "sudo" because I never have to...

But because you asked, the command is as follows:

firefox -v

@Lakshmana said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

versions in synaptic package manager if you have a GUI.

I need to have specific version of mozilla and it need not to be updated and also to do shell script to verify the specific version is present and the specific version should not be updated.This is my manager said me to do as a task for one client

If you have a GUI, why do you need to do a shell script? Go into the program and check the About part to see the version...