@AdamF said in Proxmox and VM Replication - Followup:

Also curious if your clients(or you) purchase support plans from Proxmox?

No. None of the setups in use are complicated enough that there is a need for support from the vendor.

@AdamF said in COLO Switching & Power:

@scottalanmiller said in COLO Switching & Power:

How many switches do you anticipate needing in the colo?

I'm just looking 2 replace 2 at this point.

LOL, so it IS a small office switch anyway. You should be thinking of it the same way we think of a 15 person veterinary office at that size.

Proxmox is great so far. 2 servers, setup and available for replication/migration via separate 10G NICs that are direct connected. Then a PBS server where everything is backed up to. So far, so good.

@AdamF I stand corrected and good to know. 🙂

@AdamF said in Nextcloud Install question:

@AdamF said in Nextcloud Install question:

Does anyone install Nextcloud (On Ubuntu latest version) using snap?

I did, and everything was going fine. But then I wanted to change the default storage location for all of the media to a directory "/data" I cannot for the life of me figure out what config/permissions are incorrect. But taking a step back, is installing via Snap recommended (for home use)

Disregard. I went with a manual install and was able to change the path quite easily. Downloading/syncing all my stuff from Backblaze B2 now!

Snap is good for normal desktop apps, not good for servers.

@syko24 I didn't have a closing } in one of my sections so it was ignoring some of the config. Fixed.

Thanks!

@JasGot said in Unattended remote access utility/ computer:

@scottalanmiller said in Unattended remote access utility/ computer:

@JasGot said in Unattended remote access utility/ computer:

@ElecEng said in Unattended remote access utility/ computer:

I have been using these recently and love them plus they give you BIOS-level access and virtual media with no limitations.

https://tinypilotkvm.com/?ref=ga3&gclid=CjwKCAjwyaWZBhBGEiwACslQo4pjQM3MLVoZgitDcyDn41jEzDcbBF3k29MzbVb8urtl0MIDuJQ49hoCJ0wQAvD_BwE

This too:
https://www.lantronix.com/products/lantronix-spider/

Same issues though, no computer to access and would need one for every machine if they existed.

No. You install it on one computer and then remote (ie; RDP) into all of the others. I only pointed it out because it gives you access to the bios and pre-boot screens like tiny pilot, which can be handy.

They are handy, for sure. I was just pointing out that in order to get those features everywhere, you have to deploy those everywhere.

@ITivan80 said in Broadcom to acquire VMWare:

Does this mean that VMware is only going to accept broadcom network cards to operate the hyper-V OS.?

Jaja.

@WrCombs Thanks!

@jt1001001 said in Reboot on ping loss:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0831T2DYV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_AVB60TSEZJDG854NV2HD

I use a product from Wattbox for this exact purpose on some comcast modems I use for POTs lines. https://www.snapav.com/shop/en/snapav/search/ip-power?krypto=5%2FcdcXS%2FV0TFwTz8d8FgC3vtSPg%2BpODS

@adamf said in Zerotier issues:

Weird

Not particularly weird at all. All services have outages, partial or full.

Could be anything. Redundancy doesn't prevent outages when the redundant nodes have a common failure mode - such as running the same software or being centrally automated by the same thing.

@adamf said in Ubiquiti Edgemax Router:

@jaredbusch said in Ubiquiti Edgemax Router:

@adamf said in Ubiquiti Edgemax Router:

Makes no sense. I have a feeling that something is buggy in the firmware.

What makes no sense is that you think it is firmware.

Just throwing out ideas because it doesn't make logical sense to me. Any thoughts as to what else it could be? Why would the device reply to pings for an hour after reboot, then suddenly stop?

Any chance your ISP is what is blocking you?

@pete-s said in CentOS - What is the current opinion here?:

My guess is that Zimbra is getting by on mostly legacy installations though. Self-hosted email is hard to justify nowadays.

I think moreso they are killed off by their crap licensing, BS installation practices, lack of updates, and MailCow coming along and taking their candy away.

IF you feel the crazy need to host your own email, MailCow does it better than Zimbra, and is truly OS (and deploys natively to Docker.)

@voip_n00b very good point, thanks!

@scottalanmiller said in Inexpensive laptop recommendations:

@adamf said in Inexpensive laptop recommendations:

I have a user who just needs to RDP

This conflicts with....

@adamf said in Inexpensive laptop recommendations:

I didn't provide all of the details, because it didn't matter for a recommendation. However, the user does in fact need Windows on both the laptop

...this.

The recommendations are based on the original bit. RDP alone has essentially no requirements at all. But if they need to do other things, then that would be the driver of requirements, RDP is a red herring.

That's fair, it does conflict because I said "just needs RDP".

I pulled the trigger on a cheapo Dell Refurb. Will do great for this specific scenario. Thanks gentlemen!

@scottalanmiller said in Cellular backup options:

@AdamF said in Cellular backup options:

@dbeato said in Cellular backup options:

@AdamF said in Cellular backup options:

@scottalanmiller Yeah, Our team, when working from home, likes to RDP into their PCs at the office. They use either traditional VPN, or Zerotier. Some of them claim to have issues with Zerotier, claiming it is "slow" for them. I never use traditional VPN anymore and I only use Zerotier if I have to RDP to anything at the office. I never experience slowness of any kind with Zerotier.

Yeah, change is "hard" 🙂

🙂 Zerotier is was such a game changer for us. Remember the old MPLS / pay a fortune days? DO NOT miss those.

I've never had to deal with that. We had better options than MPLS before MPLS hit the market. Even by 2000 we had ways to handle that stuff well without MPLS.

Yeah I only dealt with MPLS in a larger global company I worked for previously. They spend SOOO much money on AT&T managed WAN connections. Like insane amounts of money.

I use a laptop for work, and connect via usb-c dock to dual screens at the office. I have a similar setup at the house. So, I just plug in my work machine and off I go.

@Obsolesce said in Microsoft store missing:

@AdamF said in Microsoft store missing:

My solution was to format and re-install. Lesson learned!

The first rule of Microsoft Store:

Don't remove Microsoft Store.

Yep!

@pmoncho said in Drive wiping tools:

The first few were about 10 years ago, but that fun is done. Now its just a PITA, but with HIPAA and all, I figured better safe than sorry...

Check with your shredding company. Many of them will accept drives in the shred truck the comes by.

One of my clients does this. The shredding company jsut wants to know when drives are involved prior to arrival so they can make it first stop or last stop, i forget which. Because hot metal and paper = potential fire.

I think it is last stop. so they can easily extinguish if needed.