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What @JaredBusch  said  +make sure DC2 is a global catalog before demoting DC1.
 +make sure DC2 is a global catalog before demoting DC1.
Regarding replication, as I don't like to wait I would use repadmin to be sure replication is completed instead of waintg for x business days.
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RE: How do I replace one Domain Controller server with another and keep IP address?posted in IT Discussion
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RE: Backup target recommendation for Veeam B&Rposted in IT Discussion@thwr 
 I have mine working out of CentOS 7 minimal with ssh/perl and ports 2500-5000 open. Veeam does not even need root or NFS for a Linux repository.
 Be careful as Veeam copies and executes programs to /tmp and I had my /tmp partition with noexec; took me a while to figure it out.
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RE: Xen Orchestra - Community Edition - Installing with Yarnposted in IT DiscussionAs it may help someone else: 
 I just made a new installation of XO Community (xo-server 5.32.2, xo-web 5.32.1) and found a problem with the web interface not fully working. As I use nginx as a reverse SSL proxy and HTTP authenticator I needed a custom .config.yamlIt happens that the included sample.config.yaml is not ready to be used (it's a sample, I get it). The mounts: section does not include the required files to be served. 
 Mine, which is a default installation worked with:mounts: '/': '/opt/xen-orchestra/packages/xo-web/dist'
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RE: Xen Orchestra - Community Edition - Installing with Yarnposted in IT Discussion@dbeato 
 Shame on me for skipping that part, I lost about 1 hour. In my defense, their documentation is not consistent (so I was kind of lost).- Here it is recommending packages/xo-server/.xo-server.yaml
- I remember having used packages/xo-server/.config.yaml
- Now I'm using /etc/xo-server/config.yaml per https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/configuration.html
 Thank you! 
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RE: Data Base Managementposted in IT Discussion@WrCombs 
 Now I'm intrigued. Can you do me a favor?
 Please download http://www.alexnolan.net/software/dbf.htm and try to open a copy of one of those DBfs.- If it works you will have your solution
- If it does not work, I will owe you one
 
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RE: Standard Plugins for WordPress Sitesposted in IT Discussion@jmoore said in Standard Plugins for WordPress Sites: disable xml-rpc I protect xml-rpc and Admin from brute force attacks with some ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF) custom rules. Basically I instruct CSF/LFD to look for POST requests to xmlrpc.php & wp-login.php in the webserver log and block the source IPs after x failed attempts 
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RE: MailCow in Production Datacenterposted in IT Discussion@travisdh1 said in MailCow in Production Datacenter: things randomly break. I agree. I have avoided docker because some things do not seem reliable. And I have applied mailcow updates that break things that should not be broke: I mean what happens makes no sense. 
 On the other hand, I have moved mailcow from Debian to CentOS within short maintenance windows and docker has eased the process.
 Now that I think about it, mailcow is probably the only docker based deployment I have and probably will for some time
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Nowposted in Water ClosetMigrating a medium sized WordPress site to a new server. I don't like WP 
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RE: Continuous asynch file replication in linux?posted in IT BusinessI would say: 
 lsyncd for user mode, simple, rsync based solution: https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd
 csync2 for multi-host synchronization with conflict detection: https://github.com/LINBIT/csync2
 MARS for a kernel side solution (DRBD alternative): http://schoebel.github.io/mars/
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RE: Dipping Toes Into Programmingposted in Developer Discussion@scottalanmiller 
 Oh, yes: Learn from a good source.
 PHP "was" badly designed. PHP 7 has more sanity. Quoting someone on the internet: "Languages like Python or Ruby were designed, PHP just happened"
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Nowposted in Water Closet@EddieJennings 
 For standalone WordPress hosting I usually use Centmin Mod option 22. It is fast and rock solid
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RE: Windows Server Backup and Oracleposted in IT DiscussionIn NOARCHIVELOG mode the database must be shut down before you can back it up. I recommend you to change the database mode to ARCHIVELOG so you can perform an online backup. There are many documents and blog posts about it, but this may help you: 
 https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000011425
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RE: Dipping Toes Into Programmingposted in Developer Discussion@tim_g 
 Some editors handle the TODO's very well when prefixed like this:
 //TODO: whatever ...
 /TODO: whatever .../
 Thay way you can have a look of all of your pending stuff in one place
  
 The editor in the picture is PhpStorm
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Nowposted in Water Closet@tonyshowoff 
 Absolutely. I am slowly "forcing" the move from cPanel to Linux without a control Panel. So far, the sites moved are working very well
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RE: Windows Server Backup and Oracleposted in IT DiscussionBut what Backup system/software are you using? I know that the question is not for me but... That is an interesting one. I have used a few (from BackupExec to Veeam) and of course, Oracle's RMAN. Oracle database in a beast and in my experience it doesn't matter what backup software you use; you need play by their rules. In this case, it seems like the backup software is just trying to use Oracle's VSS writer to backup. I have done that and recovered databases like that, but in ARCHIVELOG mode. In this case the VSS writer is chocking on NOARCHIVELOG. In the end, I usually have 2 backups: - RMAN
- Something else that backs up at least the RMAN backups; sometimes in addition to its own backup.
 Call me paranoid. 
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RE: Web UI design toolsposted in Developer Discussion@scottalanmiller 
 We are developing an Student information System for a customer. Pinegrow + VS Code are a nice combination
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RE: NextCloud Automated Installationposted in IT Discussion@jaredbusch @black3dynamite 
 Perhaps I didn't update config.php!
 I will check later, thank you
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RE: Mail hostingposted in IT DiscussionJokes aside, Mailcow works very well and the author's support is awesome; this one I use and recommend. 
 I would say that Mailcheap's web site has lots of information, but that's me. I don't use it as I host my own email (besides using Office 365/G Suite/others depending on the client). I just seemed to me that it checked all @thwr needs while being recommended by people I trust.
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RE: The Myth of RDP Insecurityposted in IT DiscussionI also use Cyberarms Intrusion Detection.It works well