This is the method I use in your scenario, OP. You can use Folder2iso to get the files in that you need. If the OS has official VMware tools, you can also mount the VMware Tools ISO straight from workstation into the VM and this will give you the clipboard service so you can copy and paste files between the host and VM, if this scenario is permitted within your isolation needs.
Otherwise, go the ISO route. You just can't bring stuff out of the VM back to the host is all.
The two aren't even in the same league. I'm a big open source advocate don't get me wrong, but VirtualBox is horrible to use and its not what OP asked.
Its very much still needed and heavily utilised in the enterprise world. Volume size is usually the lowest priority when it comes to arrays, redundancy and IOPS (the amount of concurrent transactions to the storage) is typically the priority. The exception here would be backup and archive storage, where IOPS is less important and volume size is more important.
As far as replacing sectors goes, I've never heard of this and I might just be ignorant on the subject but as far as I know you can't "replace" a bad sector. Only mark it as bad and not use it, and whatever was there before is gone. This has existed since HDD days. This is also why we use RAID - parity across disks to protect data.
Generally production storage will be in RAID-10, and backup/archive storage in RAID-6 or in some cases RAID-60 but I'm personally not a fan.
You also would consider how many disks are in the volume because there is a sweet spot. Too many disks = higher likelihood of total array failure due to simultaneous disk failures and more data loss in the event it does, but too few disks and you won't have good redundancy, capacity or performance either (depending on RAID level).
The biggest change I see in RAID these days is moving away from hardware RAID cards and into software-based solutions like Microsoft Storage Spaces, md, ZFS and similar. These all have their own way of doing things and some can even synchronise the data with other hosts.
Hope this helps!
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Am stupid and meant to comment on the post not this thread lmao
Corporate offices might make good housing, malls could be useful for community services. Medical centres, libraries, hackerspaces, community courses (volunteer led), open up skylights in some of the old stores and build greenhouses for community gardens, temporary accommodation, kitchens for homeless people (and other services), market stall spaces and short term storefronts for small businesses so people can have a fair go at selling their stuff without being locked into years-long contracts. So many good ideas in this thread!
Corporate offices might make good housing, malls could be useful for community services. Medical centres, libraries, hackerspaces, community courses (volunteer led), open up skylights in some of the old stores and build greenhouses for community gardens, temporary accommodation, kitchens for homeless people (and other services), market stall spaces and short term storefronts for small businesses so people can have a fair go at selling their stuff without being locked into years-long contracts. So many good ideas in this thread!
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Is there a faster way to switch profile than going into the settings? Sounds like you've got a much better way than what I've been doing
There are restaurants that sell green ant ice cream as well, I'm told it's quite nice.
The internet lied to me, I thought there would be fields and waterfalls, haha. The cost is indeed off-putting, I'm many many years off being able to afford the other places let alone Switzerland.
Colour me surprised about the coffee and wine though, I'll have to stick those on my bucket list.
Switzerland, Norway, Italy, England, Scotland, New Zealand. Mostly Switzerland.
I feel like it would do wonders for my state of mind to go see the natural beauty the world has to offer.
Sorry I meant TIL about it being considered stable, haha. I've known about Fedora because I used it when it was meant to replace the free Red Hat Linux.
As for Steam, I don't recall how I installed it, sorry! I just recall significant grief getting it going (again, perhaps a skill issue) but had no big roadblocks using OpenSUSE.
TIL about Fedora, last I knew it was a rolling bleeding edge OS. Clearly lots of movement in the Red Hat camp.
As for gaming, drivers were not the problem for me. Getting games to run with ease was. On OpenSUSE, I just install Steam, enable Proton and basically go at that point. Red Hat was non-trivial to do this. Could be a skill issue, but I had a better time getting going with OpenSUSE TW.
Sort of, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I started on OpenSUSE Leap but had issues getting things like GPU and Steam working. Red Hat was also a non-starter because of the lack of gaming functionality.
TW works great for gaming and the enterprise features I care about (like domain joining) work out of the box. Its certainly harder to set up than something more geared towards home use (typically one of the various the downstreams of Debian or Arch) but that doesn't bother me.
Second to this - for what its worth (and I may be tarred and feathered for saying this here), I prefer commercial software for my backups.
I've used many, including:
- Acronis
- Arcserve UDP
- Datto
- Storagecraft ShadowProtect
- Unitrends Enterprise Backup (pre-Kaseya, RIP)
- Veeam B&R
- Veritas Backup Exec
What was important to me was:
- Global (not inline) deduplication to disk storage
- Agent-less backup for VMware/Hyper-V
- Tape support with direct granular restore
- Ability to have multiple destinations on a backup job (e.g. disk to disk to tape)
- Encryption
- Easy to set up
- Easy to make changes (GUI)
- Easy to diagnose
- Not having to faff about with it and have it be the one thing in my lab that just works
Believe it or not, I landed on Backup Exec. Veeam was the only other one to even get close. I've been using BE for years now and it has never skipped a beat.
This most likely isn't the solution for you, but I'm mentioning it just so you can get a feel for the sort of considerations I made when deciding how my setup would work.
As others have mentioned its important to highlight the difference between a sync (basically a replica of the source) vs a true backup which is historical data.
As far as tools goes, if the device is running OMV you might want to start by looking at the options within OMV itself to achieve this. A quick google hinted at a backup plugin that some people seem to be using.
If you're going to be replicating to a remote NAS over the Internet, try to use a site-to-site VPN for this and do not expose file sharing services to the internet (for example by port forwarding). Its not safe to do so these days.
The questions you need to ask first are:
- What exactly needs to be backed up? Some of it? All of it?
- How much space does the data I need backed up consume? Do I have enough to fit this plus some headroom for retention?
- How many backups do I want to retain? And for how long? (For example you might keep 2 weeks of daily backups, 3 months of weekly backups, 1 year of monthly backups)
- How feasible is it to run a test restore? How often am I going to do so? (I can't emphasise test restores enough - your backups are useless if they aren't restorable)
- Do you need/want to encrypt the data at rest?
- Does the internet bandwidth between the two locations allow for you to send all the data for a full backup in a reasonable amount of time or are you best to manually seed the data across somehow?
Once you know that you will be able to determine:
- What tool suits your needs
- How you will configure the tool
- How to set up the interconnects between sites
- How to set up the destination NAS
I hope I haven't overwhelmed, discouraged or confused you more and feel free to ask as many questions as you need. Protecting your data isn't fun but it is important and its a good choice you're making to look into it
Back in the day when the self-hosted $10 license existed I was using JIRA Service Desk to do this. As far as ticketing systems go it was very easy to work with and didn't slow me down too much.
I know you don't want a ticket system but I'm just curious what other people will suggest because I'm in the same boat as you.
Currently I haphazardly use Joplin to take very loose notes and sync them to Nextcloud.
If you want a very simple option with minimal setup and overhead you could use Joplin to create separate notes for each "part" of your lab and just add a new line with a date, time and summary of the change.
I do also use SnipeIT to track all my hardware and parts, which allows you to add notes and service history against the hardware asset.
Other than that, I'm keen to see what everyone else says
How do you folks prefer to consume how-to’s and walkthroughs?
I’m starting to document how-to guides for people passionate about IT (who maybe are a little bit too into it) that like to run enterprise-grade systems at home.
Basically, I’m publicising my documentation for setting up systems and the weird problems I hit that may have taken me days or weeks to solve. Often this information isn’t able to be searched online or has little to no vendor documentation on how to solve it. Basically, I’m hoping my suffering means someone else might not have to if I share this stuff.
At this stage I’m putting everything into a blog, but I know how annoying it is to see posts on platforms like Lemmy that are a hyperlink and a bare post. So how would you prefer to see it?
I’ve considered a few options, each with negatives and positives but largely it distils to:
- Don’t overthink it, just post the link and if people don’t want to click it they won’t
- Duplicate the content of the blog post to the lemmy post (means double-handling the edits when the post has to be updated but preserves the info in the event the blog dies)
- Post the link and put a high level breakdown of the guide in the lemmy post, just enough that people get the main idea and they can follow the link for more details if they choose (more work as it means writing the post essentially twice, just more condensed)
What do you folks think?
I’ve inherited some Xirrus XD2-240 access points and would like to use them for a lab.
They were previously enrolled in XMS Cloud but this has long since expired, though I was wondering if there’s an on-premise option that I can run? I found XMS Enterprise but it appears to require a license.