Posts made by travisdh1

No meth lab. Sorry, I'm not that much fun! Tho we have had like 5 meth labs get busted in Killbuck, OH now.

Nope, just more FDA acting badly, standard par for the course so far as that's concerned.

@DustinB3403 said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

Sorry you have to go through the change, I'll sure you'll bounce back.

Are you only looking for local work, or remote work?

I'll take anything. Was thinking about moving anyway, so that's always an option.

The FDA is currently confiscating everything of value at work.

Most of you know I've been thinking about another job for a long time already, well, guess what!

My immediate plan is to incorporate my name as an LLC, so I can do some consulting work. I'd appreciate a heads up if any of you know of a good full time position.

@coliver said in No Data Centres Plan for Western Australian Government:

@travisdh1 said in No Data Centres Plan for Western Australian Government:

@nadnerB Wow, just your highlights here read like a long nightmare. Only government would assume they could pressure another company into doing something it doesn't want to do. Then 'cloudify' the software, as if that's any different than virtualizing it!

I'm reading this the opposite way. Good for the Western Australian Government. They are focusing on cutting costs and modernizing their infrastructure by cutting out the dead weight and garbage that accumulates when IT departments aren't pushed to modernize.

Yes, that part is good. We'll agree to not talk about when this should have happened. The fact that it is happening is a good thing.

@nadnerB Wow, just your highlights here read like a long nightmare. Only government would assume they could pressure another company into doing something it doesn't want to do. Then 'cloudify' the software, as if that's any different than virtualizing it!

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Update torture almost over.... Almost. Gotta wait to reboot 2 more systems since the software is crappy.

"212 Important updates ready to be installed" Welcome to my hell.

Not quite that bad. But I have roughly an hour or so to update 42 machines and several of them had to be babysat today for one reason or another.

is that even possible? I mean, I guess if you script it all and the bandwidth is there, it's possible I guess.

It's very possible. I'm usually done in ~45 minutes except in rare cases like this... Admittedly, I do cheat on my Linux systems... I use Multiexec in MobaXterm and boom. I can update 15 or 20 Linux systems all at once.

You have to manually intervene in order to have your Debian/RedHat systems update? How sad.

@wirestyle22 said in Weekend Plans:

My sister is coming to visit this weekend. Should be fun

Both my sisters, brother-in-law, and nephews were in last weekend. My nephews are at those perfect ages right now, 9 months and 3 years. Was a great weekend.

Me with the 9 month old

@Joel Would your users benefit from setting up contact groups? The idea being they only have to select and verify a single group instead of all the email addresses.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I broke it,.. so I am working on fixing it.... without @scottalanmiller help...... wish... me,.... luck

You can ask for help from more than just @scottalanmiller you know, silly person.

Hrm, I think it's probably a very good thing that I used a throw away Google Voice account with my registration!

Good to hear. LDAP integration is on my personal list of things to test.

@scottalanmiller said in DFW Mango Meetup May 2017:

@dafyre said in DFW Mango Meetup May 2017:

@scottalanmiller said in DFW Mango Meetup May 2017:

@stess said in DFW Mango Meetup May 2017:

What's the address? I live 30 minutes away from Carrolton so I might be able to get there if I beat the traffic.

Very casual.

I think he means what is the address of the location where the meetup is happening?

Oh weird, for some reason I TOTALLY saw that as "what is the dress". It's still early, apparently. Haven't had my coffee yet.

This is a bad sign, so soon after I did the same thing with you and ball gown instead of ball room!

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 a keyboard?

83 key keyboard. vi is the bees knees if you've only got 83 keys to work with. Nothing like a modern keyboard/editor. Even with nano, I never have to take my hands off the keyboard.

This sounds very much like IT trying to fix a broken HR/management problem. I haven't looked at Office365/Outlook, but it should always have the list of recipients in the appropriate box.

@JaredBusch said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@fuznutz04 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@EddieJennings Agreed. It's not the editor of choice, but for simple edits, I need to remember like 4-5 "commands."

I know how to use it. I simply don't unless I have to.

Every time I hear someone talk about how great vi is, I have an image of them using one of these still in my head....

@FATeknollogee The other thing to remember is that choosing the RHVH at installation likely changes the default layouts from what we normally see in a generic minimal install.

@StrongBad said in Tape backup advice ?:

@travisdh1 said in Tape backup advice ?:

@scottalanmiller said in Tape backup advice ?:

@travisdh1 said in Tape backup advice ?:

@scottalanmiller said in Tape backup advice ?:

IBM was showing off their insane scale robot at VeeamOn, it was nifty.

Was it one of those room-sized vaults?

Rack sizes. Still quite impressive.

That'd be even more total storage than the room size ones I used to see advertised back in the late 90s!

Single tapes today probably hold more than that!

Nope, they were advertising Petabyte scale even back then. The largest one I remember was around 5 PB, and was the size of a large room.

@scottalanmiller said in Tape backup advice ?:

@travisdh1 said in Tape backup advice ?:

@scottalanmiller said in Tape backup advice ?:

IBM was showing off their insane scale robot at VeeamOn, it was nifty.

Was it one of those room-sized vaults?

Rack sizes. Still quite impressive.

That'd be even more total storage than the room size ones I used to see advertised back in the late 90s!

@scottalanmiller said in Xfinity data limits:

@Tim_G said in Xfinity data limits:

What about an Amazon Snowball?

Nice, how have I not seen this yet?

I wonder if that came from their idea of a semi-truck version of the same idea?

@mobeen said in Tape backup advice ?:

Hi all,

For Offsite Backup I am thinking of Tape Backup option.

We are running Windows Server 2012 File Server with data around 5TB which needs to backed by Tape solution and rotate to offsite.

Tape is one of the option we are thinking of. I am thinking of Full Backup of data for offsite (on Tape) instead of copying Onsite Backup data.

Following are few queries comes to my mind :

1. We may need to consider increase of data (around 5GB difference according to Incremental Backup daily happening) before getting Tape Backup, maybe we need to consider of 8TB or 10TB to backed up ?

Sure, but only if you insist on changing a tape once a week instead of twice a week. LTO 7 does 6TB native, and claims 15TB compressed. Planning wise, somewhere between those two extremes will be more realistic depending on how compressible your data is.

2. Just wonder what will be the performance difference b/w Tape and External HDD ?

Years ago tape was horribly slow. That's more historic knowledge now than reality. A single, modern, tape drive is much faster than any HDD.

3. What are all requirements for Tape Backup solution ? a) Tape Library b) Tape Drives c) Backup software, right ?

Seems to be a good list. I'd add driver, but that should be included with the Tape Drive/Library.

5. So which model Tape library will suite us with what size of Tape Drives ? and rough pricing it may cost ?

For a new LTO 7 drive, looks like around $2300. Then $100 per data tape.

We use external USB drives here, but we also don't need to keep to a backup window time. If speed is important, tape can be very appealing today. Then if we assume 10TB external drives, it doesn't take long for costs of drives to be more than the initial investment of a tape drive and tapes.

In your shoes, I'd think a single LTO 7 drive and tapes to match would be the best way to get your offsite data. The costs of external hard drives of a size to match LTO 7 tapes just grows to quickly. Plus, you can use just that single drive without any library needed, keeping things much simpler to manage.

@scottalanmiller said in Tape backup advice ?:

IBM was showing off their insane scale robot at VeeamOn, it was nifty.

Was it one of those room-sized vaults?

@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

So he was "totally not into drugs" but ODd and died. Um...

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/excessive-caffeine-led-to-death-of-midlands-teen-coroner-says/439888018

Against illegal drugs. Caffeine is not a monitored and controlled substance. So yes, the child could have easily been anti-drug "just say no" etc and still been addicted to a legal substance (caffeine).

Have you forgotten the entire history of the FDA? I'll try to be good and leave it at that.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

So he was "totally not into drugs" but ODd and died. Um...

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/excessive-caffeine-led-to-death-of-midlands-teen-coroner-says/439888018

What is caffeine again, reporter?

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

I think Scott only hires people with beards.

The good news is, it'll only take me 2 days to grow one.

@Dominica said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Geez, does @scottalanmiller post everything I feed him? Now I'm feeling judged.

It's always seemed to be because it's so good, give yourself a little credit!

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

KVM is deceptively simple looking

Well, it really IS that simple. Everything else is just complicating things for us. Even my favored XenServer.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'll be pretty quiet here in a few, about to head out the door to drink on Veeam's dime all night.

Well, there goes their budget!

About to head out to a cousin's wedding. At least the name of the place it's at is hopeful! Strongwater Food and Spirits

Command line update on CentOS7 just worked....

From the nextcloud root directory

sudo -u apache php ./updater/updater.phar
sudo -u apache php ./occ upgrade

Maybe 2 minutes total.

@aaronstuder said in Nextcloud 12:

Should be released very soon. Looks like it has some sweet new features

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-12-beta-introduces-the-next-generation-of-secure-collaboration/

Yeah, the included video integration looks good so far. Need to find someone to test it with at some point soon.