@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Coffee now. Lots of work today. The kids just got their Pfizer vaccines in Managua.
Seeing a house that we are 95% sure we are renting today. Then I'm heading to Managua myself to party.
P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Long day for us, we have a lot of servers in Belize where the storm took out the national power grid.
Yikes! Hope everybody down that way is alright!
@Dashrender said in Turn server into backup storage for remote servers?:
@dafyre said in Turn server into backup storage for remote servers?:
@Pete-S SSH will pretty much only be limited by the bandwidth available for you to suck in the backups.
I actually just finished a script for doing almost exactly what you said just a few days ago. I sanitized it and dropped in in Gitlab if you want to take a look.
https://gitlab.com/dafyre/linux-utils/-/blob/master/autobackup/autobackup.sh
I think I made everything a variable, but since it's sanitized, it's quite possible I missed something.
This one is for pushing backups from the server with data out to the backup server. Once you get it working, just set it up in Cron and go.
Why push instead of pull? Wouldn't pulling be safer - i.e. the webserver has no information about the backup server, so if it's compromised, it can't give anything to the attackers about the backups.
Your point is a good one. The reverse is also true. If somebody gets access to either system, though, you have bigger issues, lol.
We try to keep all of our systems the same, and this is the backup routine has been working for us. Since we haven't had any immediate need to change it, we haven't.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been so busy today I've not really been online at all. Hey everyone!
Has been rather crazy around here too as of late. Hoping things will settle down now that Halloween is over, lol.
@Pete-S SSH will pretty much only be limited by the bandwidth available for you to suck in the backups.
I actually just finished a script for doing almost exactly what you said just a few days ago. I sanitized it and dropped in in Gitlab if you want to take a look.
https://gitlab.com/dafyre/linux-utils/-/blob/master/autobackup/autobackup.sh
I think I made everything a variable, but since it's sanitized, it's quite possible I missed something.
This one is for pushing backups from the server with data out to the backup server. Once you get it working, just set it up in Cron and go.
@gjacobse said in Inconsistent output from PS script:
I mentioned that I was building another convenience script, It needs to only look at a servie running on four remote computers. This service runs to accept CC/Debit cards on a POS station. But sometimes the service borks and has to be restarted.
I have a simple batch file that does it now, but figured at some point I would move it to PS using a menu type system... and thus I have started doing so.
Oddly, I am seeing inconsistent output when it's ran. The syntax of the line didn't / doesn't change - so not sure why this happens.
Get-Service -ComputerName pc1, pc2 SERVICE | Select name, MachineName, StatusRun it once and I get nothing back, run it again and I get listed twice, run it a third time and I get what I want to see the first time.
Additionally, I have a 'title line' that I ass the
-Foreground colorand it skips the first one or two letters before applying the color. seems odd, and comparing my formatting - it's no different then others I have seen...
Can you try it with Invoke-Script or Start-Job ?
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working on another PS convenience script; the POS systems in both pharmacies will ‘stop’ and they can’t process cards from time to time. You have to stop and start the services to reset.
When I got here, they were remoting to that computer and then stop/starting it,.. having used the command line tool in (remote tool I can’t think of now) I found I could do the same in Manageengine,.. and then via command line. So I wrote a simple batch file to do that task.
Now creating a menued powershell script for both sites.
You could helpfully label it "Fix Broken POS"
Lol, yea… issue for another time. Just one of the many systems it seems that someone else decided that IT should figure out after having gone to the conference and bought it.
I definitely know that feeling!
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working on another PS convenience script; the POS systems in both pharmacies will ‘stop’ and they can’t process cards from time to time. You have to stop and start the services to reset.
When I got here, they were remoting to that computer and then stop/starting it,.. having used the command line tool in (remote tool I can’t think of now) I found I could do the same in Manageengine,.. and then via command line. So I wrote a simple batch file to do that task.
Now creating a menued powershell script for both sites.
You could helpfully label it "Fix Broken POS"
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Man, being on an international team is hard. Today daylight savings (summer time) ended in the Yucatan. But Nicaragua doesn't have summer time. And the US doesn't change for a few weeks. We go through like six different sets of time zone situations every year, It's insane.
Ha ha ha. This is probably where the phrase "It's 5 o'clock somewhere" originates.
Has been a long day. I feel like I've not been productive at all... but I did manage to get a bash backup script to work nicely on a couple of servers.
tar /var/www
tar /etc
mysqldump
send it to file server.
Even better, I fixed it so that it can simply be copied to any of our servers that are setup right and can be run and all the things happen... it's like magic, lol.
So much other stuff I needed to do, but that called out to me today.
@krzykat said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:
@JaredBusch Yeah, that sucks, but I'm holding out hope. I've actually been thinking about getting back into use pfSense on Qotom.
If you have concerns about pfSense, you could also check out OPNsense. I'm not sure if they're from the same vendor or not, but I've used both in production and currently using OPNSense for my home lab.
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We had a little cold front roll through the south last night. Had to bring all the plant babies inside, and then got to enjoy that distinct aroma of turning the heat on for the 1st time in 8 months. And we have a freeze warning for the next couple of days. Stay tuned for more 80F days coming soon.
27F tonight, 87F degrees tomorrow. lol.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Good morning everyone! How is that coffee doing?
Coffee was good... Had some gunpowder tea today. It is surprisingly... robust. Actually gave me a little boost where regular coffee tends to not do that most days... Just gotta add some sugar and I'm good.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Good morning, it's coffee time here.
I'm on my third cup. You got some catching up to do.
I'm back to playing WoW again when I can sit down for more than 5 or 10 minutes to play.
In the mean time, one of the Epic Freebies this week is an old school platformer / bullet hell. It's fun.
https://launcher.store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/rising-hell-253707
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1
being tired and apparently sick - my sarcasm is not the greatest. twenty minutes to walk down a flight of stairs.... and I have to turn around and walk back up...I think I'll just go back to bed..
Going back to bed sounds like a winning idea to me! Get to feeling better!
Check that Chrome doesn't have some kind of proxy settings configured?
@scottalanmiller Yikes! Shoulda got a house boat.
Are y'all in the path of a hurricane?
