@Dashrender said in Turn server into backup storage for remote servers?:

@dafyre said in Turn server into backup storage for remote servers?:

@Pete-S SSH will pretty much only be limited by the bandwidth available for you to suck in the backups.

I actually just finished a script for doing almost exactly what you said just a few days ago. I sanitized it and dropped in in Gitlab if you want to take a look.

https://gitlab.com/dafyre/linux-utils/-/blob/master/autobackup/autobackup.sh

I think I made everything a variable, but since it's sanitized, it's quite possible I missed something.

This one is for pushing backups from the server with data out to the backup server. Once you get it working, just set it up in Cron and go.

Why push instead of pull? Wouldn't pulling be safer - i.e. the webserver has no information about the backup server, so if it's compromised, it can't give anything to the attackers about the backups.

Pull is nothing but stupid complexity. It has no control over the remote system to know when backups are available and you have to pin hole each system to allow the incoming connection.

A push happens as soon as the valid backup is created, so you know that your backup is gone to location 2 almost immediately. Location 2 then sends to location 3 via a cloud sync tool. Preferably location 3 is immutable storage.

@Yonah-S said in Another new server question:

If you want to know how to get something built like that without the constraint of the online configurators - hit me up on private message.

When I buy, this is what I do.

But for quick comparison or rough ideas, the online tools are easy

@Yonah-S said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:

@JaredBusch not yet. I will forward to you if I get one.
this came through the distribution channel to me.

I assume that the UISP line is continuing? I was already assuming that it was going to replace the EdgeMAX line.

The only problem I have with the UISP line is that the hardware is all 27V POE only.

That line might have other issues, but I have not bought any yet.

Tested and it works all the time by hostname instead of IP.

@Yonah-S said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:

BTW... Ubiquiti just reported they are cancelling that whole line..... and cancelling open PO's I have for customers of mine going back over a year and a half........sigh.............

Not going to say that I am surprised. Do you have a public link available?

@scottalanmiller said in ssh to new cloud instance?:

We use Vultr and they use private keys.

Right, but that doesn't help with add/remove of more people. That key in Vultr is something just for the initial root user. After that, it user management. How is that handled.

@Obsolesce said in How can I remove these items with powershell?:

Get-ChildItem -Path ~\Documents -Hidden -Recurse | ForEach-Object { $PSItem.Delete() }

Thanks a ton.

Old fashioned with Japanese whiskey and orange bitters

@Pete-S said in Windows 11 versus 10:

Or is it just the usual make-a-new-version-so-we-can-market-and-sell-upgrades?

You know they haven’t sold windows upgrades for years now right?

@Pete-S said in Windows 11 versus 10:

From a sysadmin's perspective, what is the difference between these OSes?

Nothing in my opinion.

Windows 11 22H2 clean install (just made a new USB).

So the answer is it works in Windows 11, but not 10 with a simple Remove-Item.

@Obsolesce any recommendations for a way to do it in Windows 10? I have a good sized fleet of devices that cannot upgrade to 11 that will be used for a couple more years.

@Obsolesce on default install of Windows 10 21H2, it breaks the, but does not remove it.

Installing Windows 11 now.

@Pete-S said in Another new server question:

R250 is their entry level range (R240 old model)
R350 has the same CPU range (R340 old model)
R6515 (AMD Epyc) if you need more CPU or fast NVMe SSDs

I would only use the R350, assuming he does not need to step up to beyond a basic server.

The R250 has basically no good features.

The R350 has an actual PERC in it, getting you things like blind swap functionality for a failed drive.

I would get the 8 core processor.

A pair of 32GB RAM sticks to meet your requirements.

Choose the PERC.

Just picked 2x 4TB drives, find your own as @Pete-S noted.

As I said previously, I like the BOSS card for the Hypervisor.

iDRAC Enterprise, unless Dell has changed it to allow remote screen on Basic.

Redundant powersupply.

Dell price is $11k, but $7k of that is those two drives.

@scottalanmiller said in Another new server question:

If that was free and didn't lose us storage, I'd agree. But it costs money and lowers usable storage.

Dell & HP boxes have a daughter card. It will, in no way affect the RAID controller storage amount. Not free, but i very much love having the mirrored SSD/NVMe on the daughter card for the Hypervisor.

Then the regular storage on the RAID controller.

@Obsolesce said in How can I remove these items with powershell?:

@JaredBusch said in How can I remove these items with powershell?:

What version of powershell did you have on your test?
The system I just tried it on was a clean new install of Windows 10 21H2.

PowerShell:

Name                           Value                                                                                                                           
----                           -----                                                                                                                           
PSVersion                      5.1.22000.832                                                                                                                   
PSEdition                      Desktop                                                                                                                         
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}                                                                                                         
BuildVersion                   10.0.22000.832                                                                                                                  
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000                                                                                                                 
WSManStackVersion              3.0                                                                                                                             
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3                                                                                                                             
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

Windows:

Edition	Windows 11 Enterprise
Version	21H2
Installed on	‎10/‎19/‎2022
OS build	22000.856
Experience	Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22000.856.0

Thanks.
I'll be setting up a new laptop tomorrow and I will test this out more carefully.

@Dashrender said in How can I remove these items with powershell?:

@JaredBusch is the machine domain joined?

Yes, but why is that relevant? This is a user land action.

@Obsolesce said in How can I remove these items with powershell?:

@JaredBusch I did not use an elevated ISE window:

And it worked for me:

See, I swear this is what I did previously, but it did not work yesterday.

What version of powershell did you have on your test?
The system I just tried it on was a clean new install of Windows 10 21H2.

@siringo said in Another new server question:

So my question is, would you run the host OS instance and the VM OS instances on the SSDs (or VD1) and the storage for the VMs on spinning media?

This pair of SSD/NVMe is on a daughter card and not part of the main raid controller. The entire point of this is to be the location of the hypervisor OS. In your case Windows Server with the Hyper-V role. If it is not a separate card then don’t buy that server.

As for the main array of disks, why spinning disks? What is your total space needs? You can easily get pure SSD/NVMe for this into the terabyte range without excessive cost.

@Dashrender @notverypunny we have already had this discussion. Do you all have no memory?

The OS is not open for discussion.

@Obsolesce said in How can I remove these items with powershell?:

@JaredBusch If it throws a UAC prompt when doing through Windows Explorer GUI, then the script may need elevation. If you run it from an elevated PowerShell window, does it work then?

That would not be correct. I'll have to get screen shots from the GUI to show you. The entire process is 100% user land. No admin required.