@KOOLER said in The SMB Two Server Dilema, What to Do:

@whizzard said in The SMB Two Server Dilema, What to Do:

In scenarios such as these what would be the recommended backup approach: DAS, NAS, Backup Appliance, lower end server, removable disk storage, tapes (intentionally left out cloud)?

Should be separate (physically!) entity non-related to your production cluster. Cheap NAS is OK.

For the average scenario (and I really just mean average) it's Synology or ReadyNAS that I recommend. Easy, supported, cost effective, desktop or rackmount options, well known, good brands, nice features.

Never reviewed or used it, for myself.. .. But, I do remember some posts/reviews about it on, a while back, Spiceworks ..

So how did your research of them go, @scottalanmiller ? I'm watching a webinar about their solution today just to do some R&D.

@scottalanmiller said in ZDNet on What's Coming in NextCloud 10 Beta:

I wonder what the release schedule looks like for 10.

Between beginning and end of August, I'd say, but we have been rather in ad-hoc mode the last 2 months. A solid plan will hopefully come out of our hackweek in Stuttgart (you're all invited!)

@BRRABill said in Thin provisioning in XS7:

@scottalanmiller said in Thin provisioning in XS7:

And if you look, that EXT3 type is on LVM. Hence the weird confusion 🙂

Yeah that, as I said, is what got me.

So, if you pick EXT is enables thin provisioning by default?
Yes. Because thin provisioning is not actually the option. It's actually just raw LVM vs file based. Files are thin provisioned. LVM raw is not. File based is being called ext3 here.

@momurda said in Building a Basic DRBD Cluster on OpenSuse 12.2:

What is the purpose of 'zypper -remove patterns-openSUSE-minimal_base'
I know what it does, but is it necessary? Does this minimal_base package prevent you from installing certain packages at a later date? Or you just making things nice n neat?

It's been quite some time, but if I remember correctly it interfered with some packages that we needed as the "minimal" blocked adding a bunch of stuff.

Docker container is running. NextCloud is installed, but I need to get the correct selinux setting for the apps folder, and create the reverse proxy for NextCloud to access the collabora container with. Hopefully finish up in the next couple of evenings.

@dafyre said in Linux: The Role of DRBD:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux: The Role of DRBD:

I added a header into the main topic list for that. But it is going to be later in the Advanced Topics, section. Oddly, I know of pretty much no standard Linux Administration tomes that cover DRBD. It's so core, very odd that it so often gets missed.

Could it be that most Linux Admin's don't know about it until they go searching for it? ...That's how I found out about it.

You would hope that the people writing the books would know, though!

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Question about the Synology NAS systems... Does their OS reside in Firmware, or does it get loaded onto the drives that are put into the system?

Firmware, you can put completely blank drives in and boot it up to configure the unit however you want.

Thanks.

Added: https://mangolassi.it/topic/9796/how-reliable-is-your-server

Like I already told you (PM/chat): Provide more info. What kind of storage? Some consumer grade NAS? Huawei? EMC? NetApp? vSAN? We need to know the brand and model, everything else is just wild guessing on our side.