This is a new setup. I followed this guide I found online Use Guacamole on Centos 8
Linux Distro- AlmaLinux 9.1
Guacamole version: 1.5.1
I'm able to login Guacamole webui when I specify a plain text file in the /etc/guacamole/user-mapping.xml file, but not md5 encoding. I create the hash using echo -n password | openssl md5
Apache Tomcat logs say: "POST /guacamole/api/tokens HTTP/1.1" 403 267".
Update: Issue is resolved. 
I noticed my post didn’t make the restore. Lol.
@JaredBusch said in I can't even:
For anything ping/traceroute related, the tool you want is mtr not ping. It provides a much better picture of what you need to know if you use the right --order options.
Nice. I never knew about that tool. I will have to check it out
I've always used the ping command to troubleshoot latency, and view active spikes, and packet loss. The only time I really use Speedtest is when testing bandwidth. Tracert is another command I use for troubleshooting latency as I can easily show the ISP the issue is on their end, which most of the time it is.
I would unjoin and rejoin to the domain. Be sure to reset the the password for local administrator before unjoining. I would also make sure the NIC is only looking at an internal DNS server for DNS. Not sure what happened with the computer account, but possibly it was deleted at some point.
In a Windows world, it seems it would be better to create a Storage Space, because it gives you the flexibility to extend the storage instead of having to add/mount another virtual drive if you were to run out of space.
@Pete-S said in Who's making the move to vSphere 8:
@Fredtx said in Who's making the move to vSphere 8:
I also read that vmware no longer recommends booting from sd cards.
According to vmware you need 128 TBW (over 5 years). Industrial SD cards for example can have that. SD cards that goes into phones and cameras don't.
For Dell servers, it looks like the BOSS card is a good replacement.
“BOSS-S1 utilizes one or two read-intensive (Boot Class) 80mm M.2 SATA Solid State Devices (SSDs) which can be used in “pass-thru” or two devices in Hardware RAID 1 (mirroring).”
https://vinfrastructure.it/2018/12/installing-esxi-on-a-dell-emc-boss-card/
@dafyre said in Who's making the move to vSphere 8:
We are. Currently, my day job is heavily invested in the VMware ecosystem, and there's no likelihood that will change any time soon... So we are already at the point of testing it, though that probably wont' happen until after the New Year.
I haven’t looked at the vmware hcl, but I heard a lot of hardware is no longer supported. I also read that vmware no longer recommends booting from sd cards.
Ok. I wasn't sure if having 1 large disk would cause performance problems with the large amounts of files/folders. Also, this is a Windows server if it makes any difference.
I'm creating a new file server, which will be a VM. The source (original file server) has 1.7TB of used storage. 641GB of that is Marketing (mainly videos), and the rest is Engineering (cad files), User folders (docs,etc), and miscellaneous folders.
Would it be better for me to create 2 virtual disks on the target (new file server), and give the Marketing team their own disk? Or should I just move everything over to 1 big virtual disk?
And that job was fake. I even checked on their linked to see if that role was fulled afterwards out of curiosity. I actually had quite a bit of those at the end of 2021, and some in 2022.
I’m learning how to filter through some of that bs, and after the interview, I just move on. Like the saying goes, “If something doesn’t feel right, it most likely isn’t.” I haven’t got to the point where I’ve ended the interview, although I would think it would be fun to do once I catch their bs. Like this one job interview I had, they couldn’t list the responsibilities I would be handling and just gave me bs answers without actually answering the question.
I was going to mention dental applications as an example of certain applications that need to be backed up a certain way from my previous thread, but decided to just not say anything. Lol. Apps like Eaglesoft and Dentrix have their own backup process. Dentrix also has a built-in backup utility to ensure the database is being backed up correctly.
Just got done walking my daughter’s german shepherd puppy. Man these dogs have so much energy!
@scottalanmiller Let me clarify. I want to make sure the "good" backups are copied to the offsite storage. So if the building were to catch on fire or something, and the good copies are destroyed. I would want to be able to restore from the offsite storage. In my case, some of the data was missing from the offsite storage that should have been replicated from the local "good" backup. Not sure what happened, and why it was not copied over, but it did not. I figured there would be some kind of sync mechanism that would have caught that ahead of time, which Barracuda said there is no such sync. That is why I reached out to the community.
@scottalanmiller said in Does block level sync exist?:
You are worrying that the copies of the copies don't change, but not worrying if the original copy is any good.
My main concern is that the copies are good in all locations. In my case with Barracuda, the copies were not good. Actually, even worse, they were not even there.
@scottalanmiller said in Does block level sync exist?:
That won't change the awareness issue. Do they have a sync option that meets your needs?
What I'm looking for is adhering to the Backup 3-2-1 best practice. The 3-2-1 strategy that Barracuda offers is a backup is copied to a local backup appliance, which is then deduplicated to save storage space on the appliance. Then, the data from the appliance is compressed and replicated to an offsite storage, which can be another appliance (our setup in my division) or their cloud storage, which I believe is in AWS.
@scottalanmiller said in Does block level sync exist?:
The issue you are having is that someone bought a bad product that doesn't work and doesn't have support. If you used Rsync, for example, you'd have that functionality. Robocopy does, too.
I'm definitely seeing how horrible this product is. At first, I was like hey this is pretty good. Now that I'm getting a more understanding of it, and working with their support I see it sucks. Heck, even today the cloud console that is used to check the status of all the backups was unresponsive. I reached out to support who was aware of the issue, and I asked for a technical answer once they resolve it, and here's what I got from the tech.
I did also reach out to the team for a state, the public statement and I was given the following statement, but I do not believe we have a concrete reason as of yet on why this occurred.
We were experiencing an internal issue which has now been resolved and we are taking steps to prevent issues like this from occurring moving forward.
Barracuda Support
I may look at something else such as Veeam Backup And Replication, but I would need to do further research to see how their backup product works in the back end.
@scottalanmiller said in Does block level sync exist?:
Right, which is just a fancy way of saying it uses VSS. Everything does that, that's not considered application aware, because absolutely everything has that level of awareness - the agent that has the awareness is part of the OS. Barracuda isn't aware of any third party applications, including those that run on top of MS SQL.
Yea, I'm aware it uses VSS. I thought that's what you were referring to when talking about application awareness. But looks like you are referring to something else that I have a lack of knowledge or understanding on.
Barracuda backup is application aware for things like SQL and AD. Which takes a copy of the files, and puts it on the backup appliance (linux server)
My main thing was the offsite replicated storage did not have some folders/files that were on the backup appliance (linux server), and thus shows it did not work as it's supposed to. My main question was if there was any kind of sync that would be able to report any discrepancies between the Local appliance (linux server) and the remote offsite storage (also linux server).
So with the Backup 3-2-1 rule (3 copies of data). I only had 2 copies of some folders/files. But like Scott said, these products are "best effort" and it's really up to IT to make sure all sensitive data is backed up properly.
@scottalanmiller said in Does block level sync exist?:
But, like I said in a meeting recently, all backup software is for the cases where we failed to backup properly. It's all a fallback for failures in data design. In enterprise systems, you don't need backup software. Almost everyone has it as a second option, but you should never need it or rely on it. Or if you use it, it's as an interface to other systems only.
Yea, and most backup vendors will not take the fault if there was some kind of data loss. At least that's what I've seen from the past years of being in IT. They'll say something like "It was corrupted" or give another reason why there was not a copy of the files/folders that were loss.