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@scottalanmiller said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:

@BRRABill said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:

I think it was more a "XO doesn't support" 16, but technically they don't support anything.

"Support" is always a weird term. Microsoft doesn't support any product unless you pay for extra support. Why do people never worry that Windows isn't supported but are worried that a non-critical web application is?

I tell you what, if other software companies gave as much support as @olivier gives here for his "non-supported" software, the world would be a better place.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato Do you sometime take pictures too?

Only if they pay extra.

Damn, that was supposed to sound dirty, and it just sounds like it might actually be an option.

@Minion-Queen said

Hence we when we do this one we actually migrate the data to 365 and 2 you don't delete the server for months until you are sure everything is where is should be and working correctly.

Shoot I have a room of servers here from upgrades ... just in case.

I'd have backups of backups before trying something like that.

Just ... because comptuers

@s.hackleman said in Replacing Evernote?:

Just an FYI at this point. You can select all notes in a Evernote Notebook, right click from the desktop client and it will dump all of the notes to an XML file. Looks like most note taking apps can read and import them. Makes switching easy.

They also have a program (MS that is) that does it all automatically for you.

https://www.onenote.com/import-evernote-to-onenote

@prcssupport said

I have read this entire thread (albeit over a lot of time) I don't know the piece of equipment "IPOD" as it is referenced in this thread. I figure it is not an Apple device. Could someone clarify?

http://www.smbitjournal.com/2013/06/the-inverted-pyramid-of-doom/

We've been very happy with Webroot.

Go @nic!

Booooo @MattSpeller

@thwr said in That moment when...:

That moment when you want to restore a backup and never tested that before - just to find out that your backup is faulty.

Or that moment when you put in a tape to do a restore, and realize the previous backup job never finished, and is now erasing your tape.

(Dated history.)

@Ajin said in Running Xen Server from a USB Drive.:

Tried the same and created a USB Drive with Xen 7 .
But when trying to boot from it failes,

Any suggetions for making a live Xenserver 7 from a 32 Gig USB Drive .

You need at least 46GB to install fresh. Try a 64GB stick.

Otherwise it will not show up on the install screen.

Or are you upgrading directly from 6.5 on USB? I was a little confused by your post.

@stacksofplates said

Is the networking daemon starting when the system starts?

What's your /etc/network/interfaces file look like?

As a Linux noob, never been in that file before.

But after going into it, I immediately know (I think) what the issue was.

It has eth1 and ifconfig shows eth0.

Yep, that was it. More knowledge, mmmmmm!

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
~

So one of the last little bits of getting my production XS system 100% perfect is to get some sort of UPS integrated. I figured this would be a good learning experience for others in the future so I thought I would document my questions and final procedures here on ML. Some of this is going to be because of my limited Linux experience, I think.

I had purchased an Eaton UPS, but I bought (all me, I was warned) the one that does not support network connectivity. So, I switched back to the older APC unit I had that does indeed have a network card.

QUESTION 1: does apcupsd work with brands other than just APC? If not are there similar products that will work with other brands?

I found the following article that describes how to set this up.
https://pantsmanuk.org/2015/04/apcupsd-running-on-citrix-xenserver-7-0/

The directions are basically the same for 6.5 and 7 with some small differences you will see at the start of the article, the first of which I already have a question about!

It says

Also, in Xenserver 7, you need the rpm package for Centos7 available here:
https://pkgs.org/centos-7/epel-x86_64/apcupsd-3.14.12-1.el7.x86_64.rpm.html”

Do I use wget to get that? How to I "use" that rpm package?

The directions for 6.5 say to enter

wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/apcupsd/apcupsd-3.14.10-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

So I guess I am a little confused as the the differences in the two things. (AKA, why does the version 7 one have an .HTML at the end.)

I think I'll buy $25K of lottery tickets.

@scottalanmiller said in Backups - how much does backup performance matter to you?:

All comes down to your speed needs. Is the extra $100 a good price for the extra speed? What does the extra speed mean to your business?

I find these questions hard to answer for SOHO/SMB.

I guess your (@scottalanmiller) answer is ... if you don't know, you probably don't need it.

My feeling is that slower speeds are OK for backups. Unless you are definitely sure (and I would think only larger companies would be) you need the speed, you probably are OK without it.

If you ever needed a "fast" backup, you could target it to a local drive or a network target with better speed, perhaps. (Again, situation depending.)

@Mike-Davis said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

@IRJ said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

Good luck!

It would be pretty neat if you documented the whole process. This is the kind of stuff we see on Spiceworks everyday

You mean a list of the stuff that was wrong and how I fixed it?

#mangocon2017

@scottalanmiller said in Installing XenServer 7 on VirtualBox - No Disk with Sufficient Space was Found:

Trying to do a nested install of XS7 onto VirtualBox on my laptop. I give my install more than 37GB for the installation disk but I still get the error that "no disk with sufficient space was found." I'm guessing that there is a setting needed or the disk is not properly detected?

XS7 needs 46GB minimum.

Locally attached storage (PATA, SATA, SCSI) with 46GB of disk space minimum, 70GB of disk
space recommended,

https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/13780/xen-orchestra-news

@bnrstnr said in What Are the Latest Virtualization Platform Recommendations:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are the Latest Virtualization Platform Recommendations:

If you're not using XO for the backup capabilities, or any of the additional functionality, you're missing out on what it really shines at.

I'm not using it at all currently. I use Unitrends now for backups, and I don't think it's ideal, but it does work.

Not to totally derail the thread, but the backups and stuff is what confuses me about XO, do you have to pay the $70/month to get automated backups and access to the other important features?

Nope. And with the simple install found here on ML it's a piece of cake to set up.

One thing to note, that I missed.

When you run the command to make the admin account, the command will return a password to you. You may want to write that down.

If not, you can reset it as follows with WP-CLI:

wp user update admin --user_pass=Duhduhduh1

But this works out really well. Very easy.

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX for Family?:

@irj said in FreePBX for Family?:

Is the magicjack still used?

http://www.magicjack.com/

Fuck that shit.

@JaredBusch

You may have missed your calling reviewing things.

I mean, an answer might just be to say "F" it and let them do what they want.

It's not my Inbox that takes forever to sync.