@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I whether have Linux filesystem support from Windows. Especially back in the days when I was dual booting.

What?

I was talking about Windows should have been able access disk drives that are ext4, xfs, etc...

But what were you trying to say?

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I whether have Linux filesystem support from Windows.

He just told you...

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:

Fluoride Officially Classified As A Neurotoxin In World’s Top Medical Journals

http://awarenessact.com/fluoride-officially-classified-as-a-neurotoxin-in-worlds-top-medical-journals/

If you Google this, The Lancet does not have the story. But it is a known hoax from Snopes.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/new-study-officially-declare-fluoride-neurotoxin/

Oj... didn't dig into it. Glad you caught that!

@wrx7m said in Trying to correctly understand core licensing in a vmware environment:

@bbigford said in Trying to correctly understand core licensing in a vmware environment:

Here's a tool for anyone that wants it.

http://h17007.www1.hpe.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/licensing/

Thanks! Bookmarked this. I don't know why MS doesn't have this tool on their site.

Because it's a basic concept and uses simple math, so a tool like this is not needed.

So basically just another SDP/SDN product but with a weird name.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finished setting up BookStack with LDAP

What a pain but is all good.

Hopefully you documented so you can do it again quickly and with ease!

@Jimmy9008 said in Free Veeam for DGraph Linux Restore:

Hi Folks,

I have used the free Windows Veeam backup tool for a while, love it. Works perfectly. We have a Linux machine (CentOS 7) which needs to be backed up regularly, so I have turned to the Linux Veeam tool (I expect it would be just as good as the tool for Windows).

Installed, updated, and setup to backup to our NAS. Backup ran successfully. I am able to restore the backup using the recovery disk from Veeam and the backup file from my NAS. Seems smooth... the problem though, the software on the Linux server (DGraph) stops working when restored from the backup.

The machine boots fine, I can access the desktop, but when trying to run DGraph I get errors. I expect the application isnt happy about being backed up by Veeam when on, so I tested some more.

I reinstalled DGraph and got it working again. Then, I ended the DGraph process (or service - whatever its called in Linux?)... then I ran the backup. I guess if the application is offline when the backup is made, the backup must work fine. But upon restore DGraph still does not work.

Not sure what is going on, even with DGraph off before the backup the application fails. Any ideas?

In Windows, if the software isnt running I have always seen a backup work successfully. Not posted on to Veeam forums yet, wanted to see if any ideas from here.

Any other tools I should try other than Veeam?

Best,
Jim

If I read correctly, I understand you're using a Hyper-V host running a CentOS 7 VM that has DGraph installed.

I wouldn't put any backup software on the CentOS 7 VM. I'm saying this, first, because I don't know what DGraph is, and second, there are reasons to put backup software on VMs, but I don't see a reason to in your post.

I would back up the VM through the Hyper-V host using Windows Server Backup. For a smaller number of VMs, this works very well as far as backup process and restores. It's pretty simple and just works. In one example, I've used it in production on a Hyper-V Server 2016 host for up to about 60 VMs totalling roughly 15 TB back then, before I was sure WSB was way out-grown.

The free Veeam you are using in your Windows VMs will not back up VMs via the host... meaning you cannot install the free Veeam edition on your Hyper-V host and expect it to back up your VMs.

Host-level backups of your VMs will fully take advantage of the VSS capabilities in Hyper-V. Also, in your CentOS 7 VM, be sure to install the hyperv-daemons package:

sudo yum install hyperv-daemons

Microsoft FY21 Q2: Earnings Reach $43.1B Revenue as Cloud, Xbox, and Surface Thrive

Microsoft FY21 Q2 earnings show the company continues to record growth across almost all its product and service divisions.

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2021-04-23/f34-final-go_no_go-meeting.2021-04-23-17.00.log.html

This was a fun read. Makes me want to start using IRC more.

Or not, being it's 2021 there are way better options.

@nashbrydges said in Linux As File Server- Break Out From Other Thread:

What's the best approach for setting up access rules for Linux if in a workgroup?

I'd start here:
https://timothygruber.com/linux/samba-file-server-with-microsoft-ad/

Minus the Active Directory stuff of course. (realmd, domian related settings in smb.conf, etc...)

It's way simpler in a non-AD environment.

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Remember the discussion recently where I felt that security researchers and vendors being allowed to keep secrets from the people that they know are at risk is bad? Well I'm definitely not alone.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/26/22250060/google-threat-analysis-group-north-korean-hackers-cybersecurity-researchers-social-engineering

I don't see the connection between your comment and the article.

The connection to be made was between a previous discussion and the article. His comment was referring to the link between the two.

@DustinB3403 said in Oracle Linux Installation and performance seems insanely bad:

@Obsolesce said in Oracle Linux Installation and performance seems insanely bad:

@DustinB3403 said in Oracle Linux Installation and performance seems insanely bad:

CentOS Stream

That's what I'm referring to.

CentOS Stream != CentOS.

They are fundamentally different systems as one is based on "Just before production ready" and the other is based on "Production ready and redeveloped after release of production"

I'm fully aware of the difference between Centos Linux and Centos Stream. That is completely besides the point, and seems like you are just trying to strawman due to lack of anything intelligent to offer, as usual.

My point was that in the future, you can use whatever OS you want that the software vendor fully supports, regardless of of its name.

Chrome isn't breaking anything. A Chrome update does not change the EHR code, causing it to break. Chrome updates only change Chrome code, and it's to patch security flaws, performance fixes, etc... The fact that EHR stops working correctly is on the EHR software, not Chrome. So no, Chrome breaks nothing. It's the EHR that is broken. Stop saying Chrome updates break things. That's not the case.

Why not set this up to make all of your dns queries

@notverypunny said in Oracle Linux Installation and performance seems insanely bad:

So I realize that CentOS is more or less dead

No CentOS is not dead for anyone unless the software you are running on it no longer supports CentOS.

On the servers you all use that are running CentOS, what software are you using on it that will no longer support running on CentOS?

Perhaps one of tje reasons a software vendor, for example NGINX, would stop supporting CentOS, is if the release cycle is too crazy? Well,
we know that won't be the case because they already support ones that are faster.

So really, what are you all thinking? What software is dumping CentOS, why, and why not distros on a more frequent cycle instead that they support?

https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe

@scottalanmiller said in Why Linux is Hard for Windows Users but Easy for Newbies:

@Tim_G said in Why Linux is Hard for Windows Users but Easy for Newbies:

Yeah, it should... but since there's I don't know how many HUNDREDS of versions of Linux flavors... there's not enough people and resources to keep up with hardware support.

That's not quite fair, though, there are only a very few in actual use. Fedora and its derivs like korora that share drivers, Ubuntu and Mint, Suse and Gecko. That pretty much covers all of the bases. there are a few others out there, but effectively they don't matter because only hobbiests that want to tweak things are using them and they are less than 1% of the market.

The truth is, is that Linux will never go main stream for personal use until "they" cater to the hobbyists. They being whoever is responsible for making sure the same hardware that works on Windows, also works on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Korora, blah blah blah... I'm not going to name all the Distros it should work on.

And no, I don't think that if a manufacturer releases a driver package click-to-install for Debian, that it'll "just work" on any Debian-based Linux distro. Ideally it would, but nothing works out like that in the Linux world.

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

He was not impeached. They tried though.

He was impeached twice. He was not convicted and removed.

I see, accused, process started, but not charged or found guilty of anything.

Irregardless of which President was the cause for the proceedings, you have a severe lack of understanding of what the process actually is.

For you and @DustinB3403, kindly help each other with the application of some:

You appear to be the one trying to push an agenda. I don't care what you do or do not believe politically. Your facts were wrong.

Which facts are wrong?

Impeachment was already addressed. Get your damn head out of the sand.

Nothing else is false.

@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:

@Tim_G said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:

It's a best practice to include a second DC.

Like all things in the HA arena, it requires an evaluation of risk and cost for each workload. AD is actually one of the least critical workloads for a normal SMB, assuming that they have it. I've seen companies go weeks without even knowing that their one DC was down, let alone lose money from it.

These companies do not need AD then.

In places where active directory IS NEEDED, you can't have AD down for days or weeks. If AD can be down without any cares in the world, then these places are wasting Windows licenses on separate DHCP servers, separate DNS servers, etc. They can combine them and bring about another DC with those services on. A place you feel only needs one DC isn't big enough to not have AD/DNS/DHCP/Print/etc all on the same server/vm. So yeah, you can't have just one.

If AD (and everything else on it) can go down for an hour while you restore it and nobody will notice, and if you can do all maintenance on your DC during off hours (if there are any for said company), then fine. This isn't most SMBs. Most SMBs have DNS and DHCP set up to use the DC dns on workstations. If your computers dns server is set to a machine that is turned off, it can't get out if it's not cached.

Keep in mind that places who only would have one DC, would also have their other infrastructure services running on it as well... such as DNS, DHCP, Print, maybe FS.

I think what you mean to say is that "most very tiny shops" should only have one DC. Places where DHCP, DNS and other services don't depend on that DC. I don't think these places need AD in the first place.

There's just too many assumptions to be made to say most SMBs should only have one DC. Too many things overlooked. SMBs just don't have a single server dedicated for only AD. Bigger places, sure. Not "most SMBs".

@DustinB3403 said in Handling Downvotes:

@scottalanmiller said in Handling Downvotes:

@DustinB3403 said in Handling Downvotes:

@scottalanmiller said in Handling Downvotes:

@DustinB3403 said in Handling Downvotes:

@scottalanmiller said in Handling Downvotes:

Day one.... they haven't noticed yet.

Who hasn't noticed what?

Downvotes

Who hasn't noticed downvotes?

Anyone?

I'm not following what you're getting at.

Same, they seem to be working just fine...

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

He was not impeached. They tried though.

He was impeached twice. He was not convicted and removed.

I see, accused, process started, but not charged or found guilty of anything.