This was a similar situation that I ran into with a client a year or two ago. The fix was to shrink the volume a little bit and then extend it.

@scottalanmiller - This is not official from HP although one of the posters mentions he got the info from HP support.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7aa15059-646e-4c42-9bc8-bface95e94c9/server-2012-server-backups-the-drive-cannot-find-the-sector-requested?forum=windowsbackup

@i3 - just to be clear you would resize using windows disk manager not the raid controller.

@i3 said in MS Server 2012 R2 BMR backup failed to complete:

@syko24 It is a SuperMicro server with Intel Raid.

The reason I asked was there was an issue on certain HP servers where the raid controller did not properly size the disk. The fix was to go into disk management and shrink the volume a couple GB and then resize it back. Might be worth a try.

@i3 - Is this an HP server ? If so what raid controller does it have?

@rojoloco - I asked their support about that when I was playing around with it. With the paid accounts the google AdWords are removed.

I emailed support to ask if they intend on supporting Mac or Linux. Their response was that they have a Mac version in beta to be released at the end of this month. As for the other items I mentioned above their response was:

The command line can't be accessed separately from the desktop, but only when you're on a remote desktop session. And the safe mode option is currently on our development to-do list, but as you probably know, you can run MsConfig (System Configuration) to reboot in safe mode.

It only supports connecting to Windows PCs at this time. You can use the viewer from Mac or Linux but cannot install remote desktop on Mac or Linux.

Every once in a while I will look around and see what else is out there for remote access to client's computers. I came across www.dualmon.com and it looks interesting. I am currently using the cloud hosted version of ScreenConnect (Access only version). DualMon seems to have better pricing than ScreenConnect and is hosted so you do not need to maintain your own instance. There is a free version for up to 5 computers (some limitations). They also offer a remote assistance software that costs $99/year. From the looks of it the remote assistance includes unlimited sessions and unlimited techs which is pretty nice.

One of the features that I wish DualMon had that ScreenConnect has is the remote command line feature from the web interface. I also did not see a way to boot a system into safe mode but I have only just started playing around with the free version.

Anyways just thought I would throw it out there to see if anyone has any experience with the product.

@bigbear - Just curious are you planning on using the Xero conversion tool or another method?

https://help.xero.com/us/MyXeroPEConversionQB

@scottalanmiller said in ANYONE USING VULTR FIREWALL WITH FREEPBX:

Example, you have ten servers including databases, application servers, proxies, etc. And you only want the proxies exposed to the Internet, not the other machines. But they need to be exposed to each other. So the firewall exists to ensure that traffic cannot get to them, even though their own firewalls cannot close all of those ports because they need to see traffic from your "Vultr LAN."

Makes sense, most setups I have done on Vultr have been single server setups - FreePBX or NextCloud. I haven't really built out a full network of systems on their platform.

@scottalanmiller - I guess you're right. So really what would be an ideal use case for the Vultr firewall. Windows VM?

@JaredBusch @scottalanmiller - I see your point. I kind of thought that using the Vultr firewall would help prevent someone beating on the server from the outside.

I was just curious for those using FreePBX on Vultr are you using the external firewall or just the FreePBX firewall or both?

I have been using both and like having the additional lockdown on my system, but it can also be a pain since I basically need to add two entries every time I want to add another location I want to connect phones.

Updated the title, not trying to hate on Vultr

@fuznutz04 - Has to be Comcast then. My wife's company was having a horrible Comcast issue as well. I just associated it with Vultr since the site wasn't loading for me or her. And the phone system was not really accessible.

@scottalanmiller - 20 minutes ago. It just started working normally like 2 minutes ago.

It appears to be fixed but did anyone notice the Vultr website not loading. My FreePBX was barely accessible as well. Site took about 10 minutes to finally come up.

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

@syko24 said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

@dafyre said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

@dafyre said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

In an environment with only one AD server, how do you handle DNS if your lone AD server dies?

Sure, you could drop in Google for the DNS, but that doesn't help you for servers that are inside your network.

You could spin up a Windows DNS server, but that is still another Windows license. In the SMB, I wouldn't expect many folks to have the skill set to run BIND for DNS.

BIND, Host files

See my comment about folks not really having the skill set to run BIND (not in the SMB market anyway).

Host files could work, but then you have to keep them distributed and updated. Something like Sodium could work if the SMB is aware of it for that purpose, or some kind of automatic scripts to do it... But would somebody at the SMB level of IT actually think about something like that?

Apart from tickets can Sodium do anything else at this point? Or did you mean once the functions are added?

Functions need to be added, but that one will be soon. Hosts management is very simple.

Cool looking forward to the updates. I just thought maybe I missed something.

@dafyre said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

@dafyre said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

In an environment with only one AD server, how do you handle DNS if your lone AD server dies?

Sure, you could drop in Google for the DNS, but that doesn't help you for servers that are inside your network.

You could spin up a Windows DNS server, but that is still another Windows license. In the SMB, I wouldn't expect many folks to have the skill set to run BIND for DNS.

BIND, Host files

See my comment about folks not really having the skill set to run BIND (not in the SMB market anyway).

Host files could work, but then you have to keep them distributed and updated. Something like Sodium could work if the SMB is aware of it for that purpose, or some kind of automatic scripts to do it... But would somebody at the SMB level of IT actually think about something like that?

Apart from tickets can Sodium do anything else at this point? Or did you mean once the functions are added?