@DustinB3403 Wishful thinking.... I had already deleted the snapshot by the time that @Danp flagged the potential problem with backups

@Danp @DustinB3403 Any easy way to roll back with the updater script?

@DustinB3403 Do you know if there's anything to be done apart from rolling back? I've got retention set at 3 days and it's looking for the backup from 4 days ago....

So backups seem to be an issue on 5.33

Digging a bit deeper to see what's what, but the web interface shows the following:

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/var/nfsmounts/--nfsServerMountName--/xo-vm-backups/ff56004a-8730-52cd-195a-27af82106e30/vdis/d8b24ab1-2bdf-484d-bd59-ea23bc4d2e9d/2c4dcf82-910a-4d8b-8657-f2ff3e413665/20190112T060003Z.vhd'

drinking coffee, patching IDRACs and listening to podcasts

@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller TL:DR Mrs May is the Donald Trump of the UK.

Is all I needed.

That's kinda how it is, yeah.

Okay so she's just as bat-shit crazy as the Don, and wants Mexico (Italy) to pay for it?

(that's a pun)

But what did the people think they would get when they voted to leave the EU? If Mrs May is fired, doesn't the Brexit vote still proceed, but with someone else who is going to be stuck in this shit-sandwich situation?

Also, from my meager understanding of the issue, May was initially against Brexit but has inherited the problem.... so imagine that the next time around Don Don is booted out, replaced with someone like Mrs Obama and she now has to figure out how to make his Mexico wall happen.... I'd go batshit crazy in that situation too

@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

But in the most laymen terms possible why should I care about this?

Because it is the most significant world political event of our times. You should care because it affects absolutely everything in the global economy and is a reflection of US political policies playing out in Europe.

This is the part that I don't see how it specifically affects me. I'm such a tiny member in the world as a whole, and I've never been, likely will never go to the UK, and as such don't think this would affect me.

Regardless of how it affects others.

Welcome to life in a global economy.

https://www.indy100.com/article/brexit-explain-cheese-submarine-twitter-thread-people-love-8680191

Not music for a change. All of the Under the influence podcasts have been released on Spotify. All about the advertising and marketing industry. S01E07 and S01E08 are all about Steve Jobs

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Etch a Sketch lives on in browser-based Chrome Labs project

Web a Skeb is open source and works in both desktop and mobile browsers.

Everyone who remembers the Etch A Sketch slabs of yesteryear remembers how difficult it was to translate your vision onto its "magic screen," and how proud you felt upon success. Now, Google's Chrome Labs has translated that experience (quite literally) for the digital age with the fun Web A Skeb project. It's a browser-contained version of an Etch A Sketch that you can use to draw and doodle—if you can get the hang of its dials.

This could (will?) waste so much time...

@Danp said in Xen Orchestra - Community Edition - Installing with Yarn:

FYI, my backups started failing under 5.33 and I had to revert to the prior version. Let us know if you run into any issues.

Good to know, I'll keep an eye on things and report back.... Just out of curiosity are they backup or backup-ng jobs?

@DustinB3403

Looks like it's still saved in the git config somewhere, ran the script and it's now updated to 5.33

Thanks!

@DustinB3403 said in Xen Orchestra - Community Edition - Installing with Yarn:

As the original topic to install XO is quite long, and has a lot of history now is as good a time as any to create a new thread on how to both install and update your XO installations.

This has been tested against Ubuntu 16.10 with SSH access as the only added feature.

Here you can find the github repo where the installation script is kept (and updated to meet any new requirements of XOA)

To install

sudo bash
sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jarli01/xenorchestra_installer/master/xo_install.sh | bash

That should be all you need, follow the on screen prompts and you'll have yourself a 100% functional XO installation within minutes.

To update and to enable some functionality, if you run the below you'll get the ability to import your configuration settings.

sudo bash
sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jarli01/xenorchestra_updater/master/xo-update.sh | bash -s -- -f

There you go, simple and done.

Maybe a dumb question, but just to confirm: if I've already run both the installer script and the updater script above, can I update / upgrade XO by simply re-running

sudo bash
sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jarli01/xenorchestra_updater/master/xo-update.sh | bash -s -- -f ?

Thanks

@DustinB3403 said in MS Visual Studio Update: KB4336999:

@notverypunny said in MS Visual Studio Update: KB4336999:

Haven't put any more time into this, as it seems that my machine is one of the only ones hit. Weirdly enough the KB shows as already installed and needed at the same time..... this is worse than old school linux dependency hell....

Worth noting that Linux has fixed a lot of their issues and will at least tell you, dnf install <something> required before this can proceed.

Oh for sure, I've yet to play with dnf in depth, but yum was pretty stable the last time I had much of anything to do with a RH based distro. apt-get has been rock solid for years now, last time I can recall anything messing up with an apt based distro was on ubuntu 8.something if my memory is correct. zypper seems pretty solid too, but I've never been able to warm up to opensuse.

Haven't put any more time into this, as it seems that my machine is one of the only ones hit. Weirdly enough the KB shows as already installed and needed at the same time..... this is worse than old school linux dependency hell....

Moving a VM and procrastinating on a trip to the server room... One of the nodes in our SQL cluster is a cantankerous beast and decided that it didn't want to come back up on a reboot over the weekend. The only way to get it to submit is to pull the power and drain the "flea voltage"... Thank %whatever you believe in% for redundancy.

@scottalanmiller said in RequestTracker:

@notverypunny said in RequestTracker:

@scottalanmiller said in RequestTracker:

@dave_c said in RequestTracker:

@scottalanmiller
I need self hosted, open source; above my pay grade

No good options that we've ever found, then. osTicket is what we use and qualifies under what you said, but we don't like it.

It all depends on what you need.... as discussed in another thread, we're using osTicket internally and I'm not a fan, but it all depends on your organization's needs from a ticketing system and what you might want it to interact with outside of ticketing.... Keep in mind the reporting aspect though, both from a IT configuration / maintenance perspective as well as the manager(s) who will no doubt want insights into productivity etc

We use customer SQL queries to pull osTicket data into LibreOffice Calc and massage it for reporting from there. That's how much of a pain it is.

One of our guys found this: https://mydbr.com/

@Donahue said in file sharing in the 21st century:

@scottalanmiller said in file sharing in the 21st century:

@Donahue said in file sharing in the 21st century:

@scottalanmiller said in file sharing in the 21st century:

@Donahue said in file sharing in the 21st century:

I am aware of that. It's online locking that I am after. Though, I will concede that any locking scheme has to plan for both online and offline. I like sync because of local performance and offline availability, but it really feels like it is best for non shared files. When you add multiple users into the mix, almost everything goes out the window, especially when and if they go offline.

Everything is best for non-shared files

SMB shines at "always online, always nearly local" files because it handles offline so poorly. It's a balance. To handle offline or very distant (e.g. high latency) networks well, you have to sacrifice locking.

I understand that, but it also means that my users will be forced to deal with a limitation that is a sacrifice for a feature they don't usually use.

Except it also gives them a huge performance leap, which in theory they use every time they touch a file.

But with great power comes great responsibility. The conflict mechanism will surely catch them off guard for probably a long time, because it is too subtle.

It's been a while since I've looked at this type of product or solution, but would a DMS along the lines of Alfresco be better suited to this from the perspective of checking files in and out of the repository? Granted that it will would likely require reworking / rethinking workflows, it might be worth considering, especially given the ability to integrate google docs style editing / collaboration.

http://orderofthebee.org/honeycomb/ was a good starting point when I looked at it a while back, there's also a bunch of resources here https://www.loftux.com/en/products-and-add-ons/alfresco/alfresco-overview

@scottalanmiller said in RequestTracker:

@dave_c said in RequestTracker:

@scottalanmiller
I need self hosted, open source; above my pay grade

No good options that we've ever found, then. osTicket is what we use and qualifies under what you said, but we don't like it.

It all depends on what you need.... as discussed in another thread, we're using osTicket internally and I'm not a fan, but it all depends on your organization's needs from a ticketing system and what you might want it to interact with outside of ticketing.... Keep in mind the reporting aspect though, both from a IT configuration / maintenance perspective as well as the manager(s) who will no doubt want insights into productivity etc

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Shit I even have an older server at my house that I can't use for my lab any more.

If you wanted a server to lab with, come get it.

Will it be compatible with my BSL-4 lab? I got some mad scientist projects I'm working on.

sure?

Here I am in my BSL-4 lab posting to Mangolassi. Gotta protect yourself from hackers.

I need this in my house. For science-ing.

I need this for protection from the never-ending barrage of flu / cold / plagues that the kids and spouse bring home from school and daycare.