Best posts made by marcinozga

Use Veeam for all. You can run script to dump MySQL database before backup runs. Regardless of what you choose, file level restore with most Linux setups don't make much sense, unless your VM is really huge. Restoring entire VM takes just a few minutes, digging through files to do individual restores can easily take much more time.

@Grey said in Real Time Coronavirus Website:

@coliver said in Real Time Coronavirus Website:

@dafyre said in Real Time Coronavirus Website:

I've done a little bit of reading about COVID-19 (the new Coronavirus)... It seems to me that everybody is panicking simply because it's new?

It's new and so far it's deadlier and more infectious then the flu that we are used to.

I've seen published mortality rates for ages 60+ as high as 10%. These were probably inflated by news outlets rounding up, based on https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/, but the comparison to having the flu is real, and if anyone has an immuno-suppressed or weakened condition, such as a cancer patient in chemo therapy, or idiot parents that refuse to vaccinate, then it can lead to a pretty serious situation. The highly infectious nature is also disturbing since it shows just how fast it spreads. Without any vaccine or cure, the best medicine is to be preventative.

I wonder what's the flu kill rate in that same age group. Probably high too, maybe not that high, but same principles apply, if you're old, sick or have otherwise compromised immune system, you're more likely to die from flu.

I would be one of those idiot parents too, my kid is fully vaccinated, including flu, but I'm not. I don't get flu shot because I'm scared shitless of needles. And I enjoy my yearly flu infection, I get to stay home for a day or 2 and play games lol.
Give me flu vaccine in a pill and I'm first in line to get it though.

@Dashrender I think they failed because of lack of e-commerce and their prices sucked. Best Buy survived, despite being almost a clone of CC.

yum install sqlite-devel ?

@WrCombs said in Collision Domain - In POS:

@brianlittlejohn said in Collision Domain - In POS:

One port isn't an issue unless you are saturating that one line, also it is all going down to one line when it goes to the server. If you saturate more than the switch can store and forward it drops the frame. It would be odd if that was the case giving the small number of devices running on the network. I would check and make sure the switches connected to each other are both negotiating at the full speed of the switch e.g. gigabit if it is a gigabit switch.

Does the tablet freeze up as well when the other machines do? If so, i would look at the switch in the back as the issue or the line going to the server.

If it is just the front machines, it may be an issue with the line itself, or the first switch in the bar.

They're Plug and Play Gigabit Switches from Cisco on the front and a plug and play D-link gigabit switch in the back .

Tablet does not freeze up while the other terminals do from my understanding - but it's also routed from the firewall to the port that feeds into the switch..

Just replaced the first switch in the bar a week ago and it didn't help with the issue.

Can you attach network diagram? My brain is hurting today, I don't want to visualize this network in my head, I'd rather see how it looks.

Wait until they flop too, then score some deals during final sales. My relatives got huge tv, blu ray player and few other electronic devices for next to nothing when Circuit City was closing down.

@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

My god how big is your NAS/Server?

It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.

OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?

$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.

@scottalanmiller said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@marcinozga That's terrifying.

I bet 100% of parents have pictures of their naked children. So now it'll be up to some biased algorithm to decide if content of such picture should be flagged, and if yes, it should be uploaded so some creep can compare it with pictures of actual child porn. I'm really discussed with that. https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

I was in the market for new Macbook Pro, I was waiting for 27" or bigger iMac update, and was looking to buy 3 new iPads, after this stunt the only thing Apple will get from me is middle finger.

@LAH3385 said:

@JaredBusch said:

Honestly, it sounds like you are trying to get around paying for a backup solution by setting up a bunch of components.

There is some truth in it. I just don't have the approval for the paid version yet. It is approved but not until September. Right now there is no backup solution in place for VMs and the files inside them. Which is why I am looking for something to buy time until I can get Veeam 9.

Are you trying to backup the Hypervisor itself? If so why? You typically jsut backup the guest VMs, not the Hypervisor itself. Because the Hypervisor can simply be rebuilt quickly and the guest VMs reattached to it.

No. Trying to backup the actual VHDX(VM) and files inside the VM. Agent will have to do for now. It will be a mess, but I need something inplace than nothingness.

If you do it for free now, what are the chances that bean counters won't change their minds before September? You will end up with a mess and you will have to support it. If a business that doesn't have a backup in place right now cannot afford to buy one, they have no business being in business. Run. I would.

@ivan-palii said in Using Bing for growing organic and paid search traffic:

The other interesting point I hear is growing mobile users. Apple use Bing search by default. So, growing Bing user is organic.

Nope, Google is the default search engine in Apple devices, in Safari on OS X too. Bing is default in Firefox.
I don't use Bing, because results were really poor.

@carnival-boy said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@scottalanmiller said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

We just have to trust them on that, if that's even what they are saying. The concern is that they are putting something on your device that scans your data (any data, it has to scan everything to look for one thing) and then sometimes reports what it finds to the government.

So the concern is about Apple doing something that they have explicitly said they won't do rather than any concerns about what they are actually saying they are doing. You could get tinhat with every tech company in that case.

The concern is Apple is bringing 1984 into reality. This isn't happening on their devices (iCloud, Google photos, Facebook, etc.) anymore, your devices are being used as a surveillance tools against you.
If you don't see an issue in non-zero chance of you being locked up because some machine learning that can't tell the difference between a moon and a traffic light decided your pictures are child porn, then you're lost.
Government wanted backdoors in encryption, now they got one. From a company that championed end to end encryption and refused to create such backdoors in the past.

If you need to keep cost down, then Supermicro is your friend. They have some massive storage options available, that you probably won't even find from other vendors.

@DustinB3403 said:

@JaredBusch that Ubiquiti ER X only has 1 POE out port on it, is that correct.

The only reason I ask was I was considering adding 2 AP's to the house.

Get POE switch. ToughSwitch or Pro for example.

@scottalanmiller said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@carnival-boy said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

If you don't use iCloud I don't think you have anything to be concerned about. They cannot access your phone.

The claim of the news release is that they are accessing the phones. That's the entire set of concern. If the entire thing is fake, then of course, it's fake and it's not a problem. The concern is not Apple scanning data that THEY host, it's scanning data that WE host.

Not fake, confirmed by Apple, https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

These features are coming later this year in updates to iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey.*

and further

Apple’s method of detecting known CSAM is designed with user privacy in mind. Instead of scanning images in the cloud, the system performs on-device matching using a database of known CSAM image hashes provided by NCMEC and other child safety organizations. Apple further transforms this database into an unreadable set of hashes that is securely stored on users’ devices.

(Ab)use it while you can

When you delete local files after backing them up, on the next run backup tools will simply delete what you have backed up so far, unless you set up backup retention.
I use Arq backup: https://www.arqbackup.com/ - it doesn't delete files after backing up, but I wouldn't want my backup utility to do that anyway. Arq has a feature to mark folders are archived once backed up, and then local sources can be deleted, but not by the backup software.
What you're looking for is archiving software, not a backup one.

@GodfatherX64 said in Advice On a New Setup:

@scottalanmiller said in Advice On a New Setup:

@GodfatherX64 said in Advice On a New Setup:
Keep in mind even big shops when they talk about clustering for file servers it is for failover, not load balancing.

what setup do you suggest to create a failover backup cluster?
lets say i want to connect to the 2 on site servers with one connection or one path , an if one is down the second is up with the same data on it

Starwind will probably work for this, in fact I had a failover cluster at work using Starwind few years ago, it wasn't worth it. Power loss was the weak point, Starwind had to sync storage after both nodes went down, so we were talking about 3-4 hours of downtime each time power went out for long enough to drain UPSes, no generators unfortunately. We had to spend additional few thousand on bigger UPS units.

So do the math, if the server goes down, would the business lose so much money to justify buying 2nd server? And probably more equipment (UPS, etc.) You can have 4 hour onsite service, Dell I think even offers 2 hours onsite, so best case you could be up and running in 3-4 hours in case of a server failure.

If you plan on going with 10gbit network, you really should be looking at SSD disks, spinning rust will have a hard time saturating that, probably 8-10 disks at minimum.

If by WISP you mean Wireless Internet Service Provider then yes, I have. About 10 years ago. When people had a choice of expensive DSL of cheap wifi. It still makes sense in rural areas, where broadband is simply not available or your only choice is expensive Comcast of some other scumbag company.

What you need to realise is that you will run into bunch of legal bs, paperwork, and other crap. We tried to rent a space on a tower owned by electric company, and the requirements they gave us were insane, just to even be able to be considered. Planning, architectural designs, some regulatory bs, we were looking at spending thousands before they would even consider renting us the space. And rent was nuts too. It was much easier dealing with churches, they would allow us to mount antennas in exchange for free internet, no money involved.

There also were technical issues, that most people don't realize, I can talk about it more if you want to, but generally, if you have other options available, don't mess with WISP.

Would Time Capsule work? http://www.apple.com/airport-time-capsule/
I use an older model at home and it just works without any effort. And you can backup multiple macs to one. And it's less than half the price of Mac Mini.