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@scottalanmiller said in How can we recover data from Hard Drives were on RAID 10 without controller?:

@Pete-S said in How can we recover data from Hard Drives were on RAID 10 without controller?:

Only thing that would interrupt this sequential operation is other I/O operations on the array, but that is true for all types of raid arrays.

Yes, that affects all types. But as mirror recreation is so much faster typically (from hours to months faster depending on drives and controllers and activity) you often get to rebuild mirrors with low or no load, and parity almost always gets hit with production load.

Yup, I did a RAID5 rebuild that took well over a month. Couldn't help it, it had to stay in production because contained too much data to keep it down long enough to rebuild at 100%, as that still would have taken weeks. I tried to rebuild another another RAID 5 too, but gave up after a few weeks. It was still faster at that point to set up something else and migrate/sync the data over and start over.

Again, couldn't image them being a RAID 6. There's no way they'd have survived a rebuild.

@gjacobse said in Parental Control options: AD, LDAP, piHole, Other:

Was asks recently about what options he could look at to try to keep his kids on task with the up coming school year

What does this mean exactly?

The Cloudflare for families as others have mentioned will only help to keep the kid off of porn and malware sites.

I think you need to define what "keep kids on task" means. If it means only allow school work and that's it, then an "allow list" (trying to stay PC) will help the most.

Can you install it on (or bring up) another domain member server and install Azure AD Connect on there instead... if a reinstall doesn't work first?

What special case needs UAC completely off?

@dafyre said in Searching for text in file:

@Pete-S said in Searching for text in file:

If you have a text file that looks like this:

start_folder='/folder1/abc.txt'
iterations='123'
passphrase='xyz'
last_command='invoke'
return_value='0'

How can you pick out just xyz when looking for "passphrase"?

I know grep will get me the line but what should I use if I want just a part of the line?
Can it be done in one command or do I have to pipe several together?

If you the text has a character that would be a good delimiter, you can pipe grep to cut... ie:

cat myfile.txt|grep "iterations"|cut -d '=' -f 2
Output:
'123'

the -f # is which column you want.

There may be other ways to do it, but that's the first way I can think of.

You can specify a file with grep, no need to pipe in from cat.

Why not force https, then allow them to wget/curl with basic authentication using something they already know like Custer number and company name (for example). That can always be logged and tracked, alerted on if it's abused.

My thoughts on this all, as well as a definition I found of project that matched my preconceived idea:

Tickets: problems, incidents, change, service requests, etc. from those you provide your service... e.g. Stakeholders, end users, customers, ...yourselves, etc.

Project: (lots of definitions for project) A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result... Which, could be a means to accomplish a linked ticket or tickets.

But it doesn't matter what u call it.

I'd keep tickets where they belong, and manage projects where they are easier to manage. For some, kanban, etc... Others, take your pick.

Really, the only use for it is to check off a checkbox when you have to follow policy for laws as example. Like how Netflix or news sites do it for licensing or gdpr reasons for example. Then if people VPN to get by its fine, u did ur part.

@NashBrydges said in Photo Backup And Sharing:

For those of you here who support photographers or you are an amateur photographer yourself, I'm wondering what you use to store and share your photos. I know I can use Nextcloud but it's not really designed for things a photographer might want. I'm aware of 2 open source products...Lychee and Piwigo. Wondering if others use these or if you would recommend something else. This is just for me so FOSS is always my first option. Let me know if you have any recommendations.

As for features...
Needs to allow for albums
Filters for either file names or photo attributes like shuter, location, date...etc, maybe also allow me to add tags
Ability to share via links (secure). A bonus if I can set expiry dates and force passwords.
Must have mobile app so I can upload directly from mobile and view via mobile app

In full transparency, I've not fully tried either Lychee or Piwigo but will likely do that along with other recommendations here.

Oh, I should mention, I don't want to rely on either Apple One or Google One. Must be separate from mobile device manufacturer.

We have tons of family photos and videos, hundreds of thousands. We use OneDrive, which has all the features you mentioned.
In addition to the features you mentioned, it supports generating HTML code to embed the photo... for displaying on websites. Also does tagging and automatic tagging. Lots more cool stuff too. Oh, versioning and backup as well, which is nice. Allows commenting, shows activity, notifications, captions.

@gjacobse said in Light weight Distro for VMs:

Is a light weight distro going to handle a VM host system?

Why not pick your favorite flavor of Linux based OS and start with a minimal install and only add what you need? That should be light enough, no?

@ls_tech said in Hello IT Community!:

Studying Comptia A+ 1001 currently to take my test before conquering 1002.
I'm here for the community, advise and learning experience.
(Reddit is way too negative and saturated for me).

Currently going down this path of IT to make more money and promoted out this call-center within my same company or find more money elsewhere for me to start education in programming and support myself and girlfriend to get her to stop serving and start her career path.

I'm excited to join the community, thanks for your read.

Welcome!!!

Curious, you're pursuing both programming and IT at the same time? Or what do you mean?

@scottalanmiller said in Photo Backup And Sharing:

@Obsolesce said in Photo Backup And Sharing:

@Dashrender said in Photo Backup And Sharing:

@scottalanmiller said in Photo Backup And Sharing:

And getting close to hitting up to 100,000 views per day!

I'm assuming you share these photos with people, or the public?

No, 100k daily private views by birds, dolphins... and aliens. No people and certainly not public.

I'm a big hit, actually, in the dolphin community.

Yeah dolphinitely, it's a fintastic collection!

@scottalanmiller said in Sangoma Ransomware:

Pretty minor. Ransomware really doesn't pose any threat to open source. If anything, this is a great example of "haha, automatigically immune to ransomware!" Except for their paid customer list, which doesn't impact clients.

It could be that, the ransomware is the only part they noticed so far. Perhaps their systems were infiltrated months ago, monitored, data collected - including secrets, a large number of possibilities there... ending with them finally initializing ransomware.

We do know for a fact lots of data was stolen and made public. Nobody knows what else was done and to what, until the company says something. They still haven't responded.

At this point it's likely a more efficient use of time to migrate to a new VM if there's no indication of anything in any logs. Maybe debug logging could shine some light on something like you said, hopefully it does it again when expected, or maybe it won't help at all.... who knows. But being that it can be rebooted all the time, doesn't sound like a LoB service, so yeah, I'd just bring up a new VM and migrate as there is spare time and not waste so much time on further troubleshooting. Before you swap the traffic over to the new one, you can run tests on the new one to see if the same issue exists, too.

@hobbit666 said in MPLS alternative:

Any link to good reading on zero-trust stuff?

This is a good start:

https://www.nist.gov/publications/zero-trust-architecture

Storage Spaces on Windows Server did it automatically as well. I actually verified it in a PoC.

Awesome project!

Question, is the secret encrypted withing the DB which uses the pw to decrypt? Additionally, is the DB encrypted at rest?

@stacksofplates said in Gophemeral:

I'm not sure I understand the first question. The password isn't stored in the database. It's generated randomly and used to encrypt the message and then given to you. That encrypted string is then stored in the database. If you lose the password, your message is not recoverable.

Yes, that answers my first question exactly... I meant it as in the secret is encrypted within the database, such that if the DB is compromised, the secrets are fully encrypted using the password that is given to you (aka the decryption key), with no record or log containing the key.

It also plays in to Q2, which is answered

I also see that the data from the web form is sent to the server via https (https://api.gophemeral.com/api/message), which was going to be my next question but seen for myself, and obviously from the server back to me.

@Jimmy9008 test or demo environments should never be any less secure than production.