@pete-s said in Comparing 15k SAS and SSD:

@jaredbusch said in Comparing 15k SAS and SSD:

@pete-s said in Comparing 15k SAS and SSD:

@obsolesce said in Comparing 15k SAS and SSD:

@travisdh1 said in Comparing 15k SAS and SSD:

@obsolesce Nice to confirm what most of us have been saying already.

Yeah its nice to see the numbers.

There is also the reliability rate to consider. SSD drives have 3 to 4 times lower annualized failure rate.
And you're more likely to use more 15K drives and do RAID 10 instead of RAID 1 with SSD.

Regarding SAS/SATA SSD they will all disappear soon. NVME drives in the U.2 format have superior performance and a small price premium per GB compared to the same drive in SATA.

As far as I'm concerned SATA/SAS SSD should be bought for legacy use only.

That is totally not useful as the server manufacturers are not manufacturing servers to use those generally. Once that changes then I would recommend switching to those.

That might have been true in the past. But just looking at Dell Poweredge servers with one or two sockets, the following support hot-swap NVME drives : R6415, R7415, C4140, R440, R740xd, R640, R7425.

Yes, it is becoming standard, but it is not ubiquitous yet.

@travisdh1 said in LVM, MDADM, and MD RAID:

@momurda said in LVM, MDADM, and MD RAID:

Not sure, i think some here are the ones getting this wrong.
LVM mirroring is different than MD RAID 1 from what i can tell, otherwise why arent people using LVM mirroring? There are zero guides on the internet about using LVM to make RAID volumes.

LVM and MDADM are both using the kernel based MD to do the actual RAID functions. They're exactly the same. I have no idea what all those people think is going on, but many of them obviously have no clue.

I didn't know it was like that either until this thread.

For options, check https://www.reddit.com/r/Veeam/comments/7d5dq4/veeam_cloud_connect_pricing/
According to some users, Quest is hard to beat on price/support

Fedora 28 is fixed. Remove salt, and install again. Should be all set.

@jaredbusch said in Easy way to remove extended security info (ACLs) from multiple folders on Linux?:

@scottalanmiller Was hoping they had finally updated the plugin.

No such luck.

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@momurda said in Samba Issues:

@obsolesce Did you change your username?

The old one was... obsolete.

@stacksofplates said in GitLab Symlink folder to another project?:

Use submodules for this.

git submodule add https://gitlab.com/<user>/repo repo

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for!

Looked up submodules, and found two good references, posting them here for future reference.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/git_submodules.html

It's like Windows. Windows is super secure. Maybe not RHEL secure, but really close. Effectively the same. But the Windows world is full of people who do insecure things and give the platform a bad name.

While using Wayland, if your keyboard has to Windows key, you can use the one on the right.

Well I figured out the issue preventing the install of Chocolatey.

It was because these specific machines are on an off-internet network, and were also NOT connecting through a proxy server.

After applying a .reg file to set the computer to use the proxy server, Chocolatey installed, and therefore salt-minion installed, too, (after whitelisting .saltstack.com on the proxy servers). I entered a pssession on the machine and seen that Chocolatey installs salt-minion from the saltstack.com repo. All is well now, so long as off-internet computers are using a proxy server.

Script log file:

2018-03-23 11:18:52 Checking for Salt Minion process. 2018-03-23 11:18:52 Salt Minion is NOT running. Attempting to start. 2018-03-23 11:18:52 Salt Minion executable is missing. Can't start. 2018-03-23 11:18:52 Salt Minion is still NOT running. Attempting to reinstall Salt Minion and Chocolatey. 2018-03-23 11:18:52 Checking for Salt Minion process after reinstall attempt. 2018-03-23 11:18:52 Salt Minion is still NOT running. Reinstall FAILED. 2018-03-23 11:18:52 Email sent to ****@****.com - Salt Minion reinstall FAILED on ****03 2018-03-23 11:18:52 Checking if Chocolatey is functional. 2018-03-23 11:18:52 Chocolatey is functional. 2018-03-23 11:23:50 Checking for Salt Minion process. 2018-03-23 11:23:50 Salt Minion is NOT running. Attempting to start. 2018-03-23 11:23:50 Salt Minion executable is missing. Can't start. 2018-03-23 11:23:50 Salt Minion is still NOT running. Attempting to reinstall Salt Minion and Chocolatey. 2018-03-23 11:23:50 Checking for Salt Minion process after reinstall attempt. 2018-03-23 11:23:50 Salt Minion is running. Reinstall successful. 2018-03-23 11:23:50 Email sent to ****@****.com - Salt Minion reinstall successful on ****03 2018-03-23 11:23:50 Checking if Chocolatey is functional. 2018-03-23 11:23:50 Chocolatey is functional.

However, I still would like to know how to have the Chocolatey installer append it's install status to a log file from my script.

@scottalanmiller said in Selling ASUS ROG STRIX GL502VT-DS74 15.6":

@tim_g said in Selling ASUS ROG STRIX GL502VT-DS74 15.6":

Used ones from random 3rd parties go for $900.

That seems high. Do they actually sell them at that price? That's roughly the same as my Asus RoG that was only $1100 new two years ago. Yours is a little nicer for sure, but not loads nicer.

You can still buy the lesser version of it (3 GB video RAM, no m.2 SSD) for $1500 on Amazon.

If you try to find a laptop with the same or better specs and features, you'll be paying way more than $900. It still seems like a good deal to me, and it doesn't yet make sense to sell it for less at half the original price. New laptops with the same similar specs are way more.

@travisdh1 said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:

@scottalanmiller said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:

@travisdh1 said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:

@travisdh1 said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:

@tim_g said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:

I was looking at Zmanda a while back, looks like they added Windows Server 2016 to their compatibility matrix now.

Zmanda is just the "supported" version of Amanda, but their support sucked. Specifically they said "That error doesn't matter". Only that error mattered, because no backup could be restored from after getting said error. The only thing to show them is the door.

Almost forgot, I had a ticket open with them on this issue for 6 months with no action on it at all.

I've not know anyone that has been happy with them in forever. Amanda was a neat idea in 2001 or whatever. It really has little to no place anymore.

I wonder if they've updated their agent support matrix since then? At least for the Linux distros they officially supported, it was horribly old.

I look every few years... and nothing ever updates.

@travisdh1 said in Dipping Toes Into Programming:

@Baldwin_Cannon said in Dipping Toes Into Programming:

Not bad news, but honestly, I can not stand R language

R is really meant for math, using it for programming or running anything else is painful because it's not designed to do anything else.

And still I prefer matlab/octave

@hobbit666 said in Install Zabbix on Fedora 27:

Just ran through this again as moved from a CentOS install to Fedora and only just noticed it pulls down Version 3.0.15?

Current Version is 3.4.8. Does the script need changing or how do we update to the latest?

3.0.15 is Zabbix 3.0 LTS version.
https://www.zabbix.com/download?zabbix=3.0&os_distribution=centos&os_version=7&db=MySQL

Edit: You will have to manually install the new version.

@tim_g said in Feature Question: Salt interface:

@scottalanmiller said in Feature Question: Salt interface:

@tim_g said in Feature Question: Salt interface:

I am guessing this will eventually interface with the asset's CLI whether it's cmd.exe or PowerShell on Windows, or shell on Linux.

My question is, will there be an interface to issue Salt commands to Minions as if you were on the Master? This would be handy, rather than having to go to each Asset to issue a Salt command.

I've been doing some design in my head all evening and I think that this might be doable. Going to try to talk to Jeremy about it this afternoon and see what he thinks.

That would be huge I think.

If I want to manage a fleet with Salt, but also want SodiumSuite, I think I'd have to choose one or the other... but SodiumSuite allowing the ability on that end as well would be great.

I wouldn't have install a Salt master, and if SodiumSuite allows for some kind of State management backend like GitLab, we'd not need SaltStack Enterprise, or a number of other paid options.

You know what I mean? Im on my phone and can't take the Time to get it all out eight now.

I agree, I think that it would, too.

@tim_g said in Windows Server Backup and Oracle:

@dbeato said in Windows Server Backup and Oracle:

@tim_g said in Windows Server Backup and Oracle:

@dave_c said in Windows Server Backup and Oracle:

In NOARCHIVELOG mode the database must be shut down before you can back it up. I recommend you to change the database mode to ARCHIVELOG so you can perform an online backup.

There are many documents and blog posts about it, but this may help you:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000011425

Awesome, that looks promising.

I'm not responsible for the Oracle side of things, so I will pass this on to those in charge of that as a recommended change.

I just deal with the Windows Server / VM & hypervisor back-end of it.

But what Backup system/software are you using?

It's in the title :winking_face:

And also not really relevant. Because all backups would fail with that error unless the DB was stopped.

@emad-r said in Alternatives to MS SQL Server:

So till now I admire how easy it was and how InnoDB was the right choice that you need to select, I did that back 5 years ago.

It depends on what you are doing. Lots of things that are done on MariaDB, like many PHP web apps, actually should be MyISAM rather than InnoDB. It was the default for a long time for a reason, it's screaming fast and if you are just doing simple reads most of the time, it's really good.

@tim_g said in Create NFS file share on Hyper-V Server 2016:

@matteo-nunziati said in Create NFS file share on Hyper-V Server 2016:

@tim_g said in Create NFS file share on Hyper-V Server 2016:

@matteo-nunziati said in Create NFS file share on Hyper-V Server 2016:

@tim_g late to party. can this help with your original plan?

Yes, something like that but a little more current would have been perfect!

A lot less moving parts with something like that... I'd be able to cut out needing another VM and Yosemite license.

Try this google search

Wow your google-fu is better than mine!

Not often... This has been a lucky one.