@JasGot In my company, we use XCP-ng on 4 small hosts with maybe 10 VMs on them (2 Win RDP servers, few Linux fileservers...). We manage them with XCP-ng center (Windows app) in LAN and with Xen Orchestra remotely. We are very satisfied with XCP and management is pretty simple. We are no experts but beginners.
We cloned some VMs, copied them from host to host, added additoinal storage after installation...

I tried to install KVM few times and I find it confusing to setup and manage.

@WrCombs Mild case. Just like ordinary virosis (flu). Symptoms started on sunday. Probably brought by my 11 year old girl from school

LastPass

One wide definition of project that I learned was that project is any situation where you need to complete more then one task to achieve a goal.

We tried Asana and Freedcamp and I think they are both good for tracking tasks/projects within team.
However, I have not yet found app that can fullfill all our wishes for tracking tasks within teams.

@scottalanmiller Thank you. I guess it would be nice to introduce myself...
I am from Croatia. Woking in SMB, non-IT company, and one of my roles is IT management.

I want to build small server that needs to perform these functions:

1. Nextcloud server for 15-20 users (users are not in LAN) - we want to move from Dropbox where we have 100.000+ files taking 78GB space. Users would have Nextcloud clients installed.
2. Backup target for 3 off-site servers (totally 1TB space is enough)
3. VM with Piler (mailpiler.org) for mail archiving (I guess we have about 20GB of mails per year)

I thought to build it with this:

1. Dell T30 - E3-1225v5 CPU, 8GB RAM - 400 EUR (cca $460)
2. Two pieces of 4TB WD Red in RAID 1 - 105 EUR (cca $120) each
3. XenServer 7.5 as hypervisor (or XCP-ng)

• one VM for Nextcloud - 2CPU, 4GB RAM
• one VM for Piler mail achiver
• backup target on separate VM or on one of the above

My questions:

1. Do you think my config is OK, or do you recommend something else?
2. Where should I put my space for backup target - on Nextcloud or on another VM (or together with Piler)?
3. Would it be better to have 4x2TB drives in RAID 10 instead od 2x4TB drives in RAID 1? I don't think that storage performance should be an issue, as we have internet connection as limiting factor (10Mbps up / 30Mbps down)

@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Hey awesome, @MarigabyFrias and I are hoping to be in Croatia in April! Love it there.

Great! I'll be happy to buy you a cup of coffee if you're travelling through my area (Split) :-)

@scottalanmiller Yeah, that's annoying, and Win7 is not easy to install on most new hardware.

@DustinB3403 said in Is Open Source Really So Much More Secure By Nature:

I don't know that I would call Excel a great app. IMO it's mediocre at, while I agree it has some features other spreadsheet solutions are adding these too.

I do not see any other spreadsheet that matches (or outperforms) Excel.
In our company we use Excel and LibreOffice Calc as spreadsheets, but Excel is better for us.
We also tried Onlyoffice, but we were not satisfied very soon.

@scottalanmiller said in The Fundamental Flaw in Not Listening to the Boss:

But the average company does not do that and does not expect IT to actually provide guidance. Bigger companies, yes.

OK, but most average companies do not last long :-)

the owners or business managers absolutely demand control of IT decisions and IT is just there to look pretty or something.

I think it's not problem who makes decisions - the real question is does management listen to their staff or expect them to "do what they're told to do".
Good management always listen to their subordinates.

@irj said in XCP-NG installation on windows server:

You really shouldn't be booting for USB, and should be using a hypervisor even if it's hyper V (which isn't the best IMO, but still 100x better than booting from USB).
Once you get the hypervisor up and running then you can start creating VMs from it and get up and running.

I don't know what are you trying to say?
@perja11 is trying to install XCP-NG as hypervisor, so it's OK to boot from USB (and install on baremetal)

@irj I would go with 2x16GB in dual channel mode so that you can have better memory performance.

Performance impact will depend on what your workload is,

We put single stick in desktops where performance is not important, but if you go with Ryzen 5000, I would go with dual-channel.

@JaredBusch said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

@Mario-Jakovina said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

2. We lost few subfolders (>700files) that we can't find in "Deleted files" which is terrible experience for us, and we will reconsider our usage of Nextcloud (I plan to open another topic for that). We recovered from backup.

Options:

1. Files are in another folder, moved by random_user_03, thus not in trash.
2. Files were deleted, and trash emptied by malicious_user_06.

What I'm afraid of is:
Option 3. - Some bug in Nextcloud that deleted our files or lost track of files that users accidentaly moved...

@JaredBusch said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

@Mario-Jakovina said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

2. We lost few subfolders (>700files) that we can't find in "Deleted files" which is terrible experience for us, and we will reconsider our usage of Nextcloud (I plan to open another topic for that). We recovered from backup.

Options:

1. Files are in another folder, moved by random_user_03, thus not in trash.
2. Files were deleted, and trash emptied by malicious_user_06.

Option 1. - We can't find missing files/folders niether in local Nextcloud folders nor online?
Option 2. - As I said, technicaly possible, but hard to believe in our case

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

@Mario-Jakovina said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

2. We lost few subfolders (>700files) that we can't find in "Deleted files" which is terrible experience for us, and we will reconsider our usage of Nextcloud (I plan to open another topic for that). We recovered from backup.

In some ways, this is horrible. But in others, it's amazing. You are able to simply backup and recovery. Taking an external backup of most cloud services is hard or impossible. We had Microsoft "accidentally" delete loads of data from our OneDrive and neither could they recovery by rewinding nor did they have backups to recover from! And they were the ones that lost them while doing unauthorized work on our system!

So while it's awful that NextCloud doesn't have a convenient way to get back from a major loss, it's amazing that they have an inconvenient way to recover because not everyone does.

OK, I agree, backup of Dropbox is "hard or impossible" with multiple users.
I didn't thought about that advantage of Nextcloud. We will need to see how practical is "recovery from backup".
"Rewind" feature in Dropox is very practical to use. However, it is not backup.

@JasGot said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

@JasGot said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

@Mario-Jakovina said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

@DustinB3403 Thank you.
I must say that I am a bit disappointed with Nextcloud. This should be normal feature.
We already had few serious issues with it (bugs with mainstream Intel GPU never solved etc.) but we switched to it due to pricing advantage.
However, I can't say it is as reliable as Dropbox, so far.

What does Nextcloud cost?

Totally free. We run it here, too.

I know. That's my point. We manage about 40 NextCloud installations for our customers.

As you answered to me earlier, your point was that Nextcloud is free, so I should not expect features like Dropbox has :-)

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Got our stimulus check and it is.... postdated.

Seriously USA?

Do you mean paper checks (that you take to bank to take cash...)?
Why do you still use paper checks? We here don't use it for 10+ years at least (Croatia/EU)

@Pete-S said in Nextcloud experience:

We use Zoho Workdrive and the smallest package is 2 EUR / user / month. That would be 80 EUR / month for 40 users and you'd have 4TB of storage space to share.
Files are local from the users perspective so nothing for them to do besides their usual work.

ZohoDrive sounds fine (5x cheaper then Dropbox)
Is it functionaly different from Dropbox/Nextcloud?
Nextcloud/Dropbox is also "local from user perspective" so I don't understand what you mean by that?

@Pete-S said in Nextcloud experience:

In this case I think a cloud service with no local fileservers and data replication directly to the users local drives makes a lot more sense than Nextcloud.

What is this "cloud service" that does "data replication directly to the users local drives" if Nextcloud is not that? We use local fileservers just to decrease number of file conflicts.

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud experience:

@Mario-Jakovina said in Nextcloud experience:

Do you have experience with usage of this size (180.000 files, 40 users, many group folders) and do they have similar problems?

We have about that many users, but far fewer files, here internally. We've had people accidentally delete things similarly, but on a smaller scale. They were able to recovery from the "Trash Bin" method, in that example case.

Number of our files is ridiculous. Together with Dropbox, that we still use, we have almost 300.000 files.
We probably need to reorganize our use, sort old files if they need to be archived, and identify and delete old junk files. But we also don't have organizational experience with how to organize this "cleaning" and how to establish system to avoid clutter in future.