@Dashrender said in Interesting FreePBX Setup:
@NashBrydges said in Interesting FreePBX Setup:
They have a route to a cell phone at reception in the event of internet or connectivity issues with VoIP provider.
I'm curious how this works? how is the cellphone integrated into the solution?
VoIP.ms has a "routing if unreachable" setting where you can enter a cell phone to forward calls to if there an interruption between VoIP.ms and FreePBX.
I had a similar issue in a workgroup with drives disconnecting. A bunch of Googling brought me to this.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/297684/mapped-drive-connection-to-network-share-may-be-lost
That seemed to fix the issue for me.
Will have to toy with that later and see if I can break something while turning this on 
Most of my clients who are using Veeam for backup and running local backups for fast restores as well as a backup copy job to a NAS which is then moved offsite, either to cloud or to a remote NAS. This works very well but I am looking at introducing a direct Veeam to cloud backup. I have a temp account with Wasabi because I wanted to give their service a try.
I'm running Veeam B&R Enterprise Plus v9.5 Update 4 (this is the version that allows this functionality).
The Good:
Very easy to sign-up and setup a bucket
Setting up a new backup repository along with the S3 compatible scale-out repository was also easy
The tests I've run so far look like it is capable of uploading to Wasabi at ~50MBps (yes, MB not Mb, which is better than almost any other cloud storage I've used)
The Bad (and this is totally due to my lack of experience):
The point of having the backups sent to cloud is to have a remote copy in case the local backup gets obliterated. Problem is, I can't figure out how to test restoring a VM from a Wasabi backup if my local backup gets nuked.
The Question:
I want to simulate the loss of my local backups. Has anyone used Wasabi or AWS with Veeam in this way where you've lost local backup and needed to restore from a cloud backup? I can delete the local backup files but that just causes the restore to fail even though the cloud backup still exists. So I'm missing something. I want to fully simulate various loss scenarios in my lab and would appreciate any experience anyone here can share.
I am hoping the answer isn't "download the entire archive" but who knows lol.
@Pete-S said in Service provider - monitoring questions:
But on the monitoring side, I assume you monitor servers and VMs but does your monitoring also goes down to application / services level? With that I mean that not only do you monitor that a server/VM is healthy but also that, for instance, the http server actually is running and have response time that is reasonable and any database connections or other connections that the http server depends on are also actually working. Or do you depend on someone noticing the problem and writing a ticket?
Services that are external facing (like a web page for example) gets monitored via uptimerobot.com.
@Pete-S said in Service provider - monitoring questions:
Also do you respond to monitoring triggers/tickets 24/7 or just during business hours? I mean if something goes down on Friday evening, will it stay down until Monday morning? Or is this more of an issue in enterprises and not really in the SMB space?
The severity of the issue will dictate whether it needs to be responded to immediately or if it can wait. We have agreements with clients as to what we can action without their prior approval/notification for those critical services so we aren't hung-up waiting for a reply.
@Emad-R said in ZFS is Perfectly Safe on Hardware RAID:
Also Poutine is overrated.
OMG, that's it, I can't take anyone seriously on this forum! Sacré bleu!
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Was doing some testing between 2 devices (Windows PCs at each end), each connected to a 500Mbps ISP (tested multiple times to verify) and when I transfer a file between those 2 PCs, the best I can get is around 200Mbps regardless of the direction of the file transfer. Both PCs are running Core i5, 8GB RAM and 500GB SSDs so there shouldn't be a bottleneck at either PC end.
Has anyone been able to get better than 200Mbps across ZeroTier? Just wondering if this is where it will max out.
Was planning on using this to setup remote Veeam backups.
I met with a prospective client today over video chat (wanted to reduce physical exposure for everyone until we're in a place where onsite visit is necessary) and she walked me through her current setup and what she'd like to do. One thing stood out for me as potentially problematic so wanted to check here to see if someone could point me in the right direction.
Her current IT admin (still employed there...for now) has setup a Windows 2016 server with Hyper-V role. He's the used Disk2VHD to create a disk image of each of their business' 8 PCs and loaded them up on the Windows server to run as virtual desktop. He then uninstalled all of the business software from each of their desktops so they are now essentially running their entire business via those virtual Win10 machines. Each physical desktop is now essentially a client for accessing the users' virtual PCs. Nothing is running on their physical PCs except Windows 10 Pro. All their software is running on their virtual desktops.
I'm pretty sure that's problematic in that they are in breach of MS licensing terms (I think). There are no CALs. They simply use the Remote Desktop client on their physical desktops to access their virtual PCs and it is a 1:1 setup with everyone having their own virtual Win10 PC. There is no AD of any kind.
If I understand the licensing correctly, in this setup, they would require Windows Software Assurance, Windows VDA subscription, or Windows E3/E5 licenses, do I have that right? They would also require CALs for the appropriate # of users, correct?
I used to be in the same boat with a ton of movies for about 23TB but the NAS couldn't handle more than a single stream running Plex so I kept the NAS as just storage and setup the Plex server on an actual server. Then the NAS' only task was file sharing which it did well. I've now moved the entire Plex onto a Dell R520 LFF and leverage VMs as storage and Plex server at a colo. I stream from Rokus at my house that are connected to the Plex server at the colo. Stream full uncompressed 4k without any hiccups.
Looking to pick brains and see what you'd do. This is for my home.
Options:
1 - Buy a Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus (I have no need of the Unifi Controller function, single HDD, no built-in backups, while not announced, I'm not sensing this will be supported for long...no evidence of this, just a hunch)
2 - Buy a UNVR (1 to 4 HDDS however if you install 3 or 4 drives, the only array allowed is RAID 5 and I'm told no option to change that, also no built-in automated backup that I'm aware of)
3 - Buy a UDM (but I have no need for the Unifi Controller function)
4 - Replace my UBNT cameras for other cameras and find another NVR (maybe my Synology DS1819+ for example)
I'm leaning towards the UNVR but curious if anyone else is in the same boat and what you've chosen to do.
Also, I'd be interested in knowing which cameras/NVR you use in outdoor settings (remember, this is home use, not business). Looking for...
@hobbit666 Sadly, they are not. There is no software to replace replace it. Nothing to run on your own hardware. You must now purchase and use their own hardware in order to obtain the latest updates for the NVR.
As a result of 2020's dumpster fire of a year, most of my clients ended-up moving to remote, work-from-home operations, many have chosen to move their gear to colo so I've expanded my 1/4 rack to a full rack at a datacenter where I now also host all my "home lab" gear, including Plex server. The lab gear consists of a Dell R720XD-SFF that runs all of my VMs, a Dell R720XD-LFF that hosts a VM file server and a Dell R720XD-LFF as local Veeam backup target. Also have a Dell R420 running Blue Iris for my security cams as home. I only have a Dell R230 running at home for Pi-Hole and NGINX, plus a 2 Synology NAS as a remote backup targets for my colo gear.
For less sensitive drives, a good drill and 1/4" drillbit after a full random write works wonders too
For those of you here who support photographers or you are an amateur photographer yourself, I'm wondering what you use to store and share your photos. I know I can use Nextcloud but it's not really designed for things a photographer might want. I'm aware of 2 open source products...Lychee and Piwigo. Wondering if others use these or if you would recommend something else. This is just for me so FOSS is always my first option. Let me know if you have any recommendations.
As for features...
Needs to allow for albums
Filters for either file names or photo attributes like shuter, location, date...etc, maybe also allow me to add tags
Ability to share via links (secure). A bonus if I can set expiry dates and force passwords.
Must have mobile app so I can upload directly from mobile and view via mobile app
In full transparency, I've not fully tried either Lychee or Piwigo but will likely do that along with other recommendations here.
Oh, I should mention, I don't want to rely on either Apple One or Google One. Must be separate from mobile device manufacturer.
Thought I would provide an update.
I setup and tested Piwigo and it looks like I will need to abandon that product. There are simple things I would expect (like being able to download an entire album without having to select every single photo and downloading them one at a time) that are missing. While there are some plugins to address some of these shortcomings, these are developed and maintained by the community so there's a risk that a particular add-on may no longer work or stop being developed/supported. The interface is also a bit lacking, confusing and unimaginative.
Will move to test something else soon.
I have NGINX running on an Ubuntu 20.04 instance. It runs nothing but NGINX and is hosted on hyper-v server. Everything is running with all updates applied.
The issue is that NGINX will randomly just stop routing requests. Websites and services are going offline and looking at the NGINX logs (/var/log/nginx) as well as the syslog doesn't show any errors but when I check to see if the NGINX service is running, it shows as stopped. All I have to do is reboot the Ubuntu server and everything works again (restarting NGINX service doesn't always fix the issue but a server reboot works every time). No other change required, just a reboot.
It's proxying for only a dozen sites and services and traffic is not that high. Looking at resource utilization doesn't indicate there are problems there.
I'm already running auto reboots every night but these random stops continue to happen (before someone asks, no, the issues are not correlated with the reboot schedule). Before I enable debug logging, I thought I'd reach out here to see if anyone else had experienced this before and how you might have fixed it. Should I be looking elsewhere for details on what might be causing this?
@travisdh1 I did, yes, however this was at the top of the page which prompted me to come here...
@dbeato Thanks. I'll give this a try over the weekend.
