Posts made by jrc

Hi everyone,

I am trying to add a new zone to my DNS server (Debian 6 running Bind). But it's just not working.

Basically in order for me to force safe search on my network I need to create a zone for www.google.com, then create a cname for www.google.com and point it to forcesafesearch.google.com. Simple enough, except it's not working and I have no idea why.

Here are my config files:

named.conf:

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include "/etc/bind/named.conf.options";
include "/etc/bind/named.conf.local";
include "/etc/bind/named.conf.default-zones";

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named.conf.local

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zone "www.google.com" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/www.google.com.hosts";
};

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www.google.com.hosts

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$ttl 12h

www.google.com. IN SOA ns.www.google.com. ns.www.google.com. (
2016052601
1d
15m
2w
1h )

www.google.com. IN NS ns.www.google.com

ns.www.google.com. IN A 10.1.1.2

@ IN CNAME forcesafesearch.google.com.

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Yet here are the results of an NSLookup

BASH
Picard:~ <user>$ nslookup www.google.com 10.1.1.2

Server: 10.1.1.2
Address: 10.1.1.2#53

** server can't find www.google.com: NXDOMAIN

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Tearing my hair out over this. So any help would be greatly appreciated.

@DustinB3403 said in Backup solutions for Xenserver:

Xen Orchestra is our current VM backup appliance of choice around here.

If you want to backup the Boot device, you'd just clone the bootable USB/SD card.

I thought Xen Orchestra was for managing Xen, not backing it up. I'll need to look into that. Does it do any de-duping? And file level restores?

@coliver said in Backup solutions for Xenserver:

Have you gotten in touch with Unitrends Support? That may be the first stop on investigating this.

Xen Orchestra has several decent options for backup.

Yes I have been working with them closely. However the latest UEB is just riddled with all kinds of bugs, and the Xen support is very much an afterthought for them. It's become very obvious that they only acquired PHD for their interface and would not be surprised if they drop Xen support all together once the various PHD contracts expire.

Hi Everyone!

Ok, so about 2 years ago I posted on Spiceworks asking for advice on a backup solution for Xenserver. Well I am back asking again, but someone mentioned that this forum is a good place to ask about this.

Based on the feedback from the original post we ended up going with PHDVirtual, which worked very well. Since then they were acquired by Unitrends and the product has become completely unreliable (hitting maybe 38% success rate on daily backups). I even went so far as to completely redo the system from the ground up (fresh appliance, blank backup target NAS), but it looks like UEB is just not capable or reliable backing up Xenserver.

So here I am again, looking to evaluate some options for backup. I plan to take a deep look at Alike again, but was wondering what else may have popped up since the last time I looked. How do you guys that use Xenserver back them up?

Thanks in advance,

JRC

EDIT: I should mention that I need a solution that allows for de-dupping of the data backed up (so I can keep around 6mo of backups, and I'll need something that allows me to do a file level restores for my ~2Tb of data on my Fileserver).