• Intel NUCs

    From Avon@21:1/101 to All on Thu Aug 10 12:49:53 2023
    Anyone use these?
    I bought and older (2017) celeron the other day for a good price, looks like running anything other than Windows 10 on it may be an issue :(

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Avon on Thu Aug 10 11:26:01 2023
    Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Avon to All on Thu Aug 10 2023 12:49 pm

    Anyone use these?

    NUC?

    Yup, my main server is a NUC. I run ESXi on it - which gives me a web console to it, and makes it easier to run VMs. Proxmox would probably do the job as well, but I've never used it.

    My NUC runs about 6 or so machines, but I have many others defined on there that I've started to try something out...


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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Avon on Wed Aug 9 22:06:44 2023
    On 10 Aug 2023, Avon said the following...

    Anyone use these?
    I bought and older (2017) celeron the other day for a good price, looks like running anything other than Windows 10 on it may be an issue :(

    I have a NUC (NUC10i7FNH) here running VMWare ESXi. I have 4 Linux VMs running on it (one being this Mystic install). So far it hasn't given any issues. I even have a USB to serial adapter & USR 56k modem plugged into it.


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Avon on Thu Aug 10 12:02:00 2023
    Anyone use these?

    I've got an even older one I think...yup 2014, from memory dual core atom...
    it has Win8 off hand... never used it with windoze..had ubuntu on it for a while... didn't have any drama getting any of it installed though..

    Spec


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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Avon on Wed Aug 9 21:38:47 2023
    Anyone use these?
    I bought and older (2017) celeron the other day for a good price, looks like running anything other than Windows 10 on it may be an issue :(

    I've owned several and have been rather pleased. I've always used linux, though.

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  • From Zip@21:1/202 to Avon on Thu Aug 10 08:42:52 2023
    Hello Avon!

    On 10 Aug 2023, Avon said the following...

    Anyone use these?
    I bought and older (2017) celeron the other day for a good price, looks like running anything other than Windows 10 on it may be an issue :(

    I'm running the BBS on one (NUC7i3BNK), but it's running Debian 12 as a headless server.

    Best regards
    Björn

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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to Avon on Thu Aug 10 09:14:45 2023
    Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Avon to All on Thu Aug 10 2023 12:49 pm

    Anyone use these?
    I bought and older (2017) celeron the other day for a good price, looks like running anything other than Windows 10 on it may be an issue :(

    Why?

    candycane

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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to esc on Thu Aug 10 09:16:03 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: esc to Avon on Wed Aug 09 2023 09:38 pm

    I've owned several and have been rather pleased. I've always used linux, though.

    Same (about linux I mean)

    candycane

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Avon on Thu Aug 10 07:12:00 2023
    Avon wrote to All <=-

    Anyone use these?
    I bought and older (2017) celeron the other day for a good price, looks like running anything other than Windows 10 on it may be an issue :(

    My company has a hundred and fifty NUCs running Ubuntu Linux.



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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Avon on Thu Aug 10 09:01:25 2023
    Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Avon to All on Thu Aug 10 2023 12:49 pm

    Anyone use these?
    I bought an older (2017) celeron the other day for a good price, looks like running anything other than Windows 10 on it may be an issue :(

    I thought they'd also be able to run Linux fairly well..

    At one of my previous jobs, my team had stacks of NUCs that we had connected to Jenkins (software build management system) that we used for running automated nightly tests of our software.

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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Aug 10 12:19:08 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Avon on Thu Aug 10 2023 07:12 am

    My company has a hundred and fifty NUCs running Ubuntu Linux.

    Have you suggested to them to switch to Debian?

    candycane

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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Avon on Thu Aug 10 10:54:33 2023

    On Friday, August 11th Avon said...
    Anyone use these? I bought and older (2017) celeron the other day for a good price, looks like running anything other than Windows 10 on it may be an issue :(

    I don't have a Intel version, but Xibalba runs on a i5 NUC-like (about 4"x4") made by Gigabyte. I love it!



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  • From k9zw@21:1/224 to Avon on Thu Aug 10 14:43:42 2023
    I have a very NUC on a stick version that served me well, but was very minimalistic.

    Seems the NUC as a brand had more than one owner?

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to k9zw on Thu Aug 10 17:04:07 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: k9zw to Avon on Thu Aug 10 2023 02:43 pm

    I have a very NUC on a stick version that served me well, but was very minimalistic.

    Seems the NUC as a brand had more than one owner?

    I'm pretty sure NUC has only ever been owned by Intel. And I've never seen or heard of a NUC on a stick.. The only NUCs I've ever heard of are the small square ones or the somewhat more powerful rectangular ones (such as the Skull Canyon).

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  • From apam@21:1/182 to Avon on Fri Aug 11 10:46:17 2023
    Anyone use these?
    I bought and older (2017) celeron the other day for a good price,
    looks like running anything other than Windows 10 on it may be an
    issue :(

    I have an Intel NUC that I bought some years ago, it was also a celeron
    (I don't remember the year though) I don't use it anymore though I do
    remember having some issues with non-windows OS (some linux distros I
    think) when I first got it, but I think the issues got fixed along the
    way.

    I don't use it anymore though, last time I tried it was very slow - but
    that could have been due to a number of reasons.

    I did like the small form factor and being able to sit it on a shelf and
    it was out of the way.

    Andrew


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  • From martin@21:2/114 to apam on Thu Aug 10 23:37:06 2023
    I would like to have one of these to tinker with, would you be interested in selling yours if you are not going to be using it?

    I would rather buy one from a fellow sysop than say ebay and roll the dice on not getting screwed over.

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  • From apam@21:1/182 to martin on Fri Aug 11 15:08:11 2023
    I would like to have one of these to tinker with, would you be
    interested in selling yours if you are not going to be using it?

    I would actually, but I'm guessing you're not in Australia, and I would
    say it'd probably cost you less to get one from ebay in your own country.

    If you're really keen I can probably find out how much postage would cost.

    Andrew

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  • From Ratz@21:2/114 to apam on Fri Aug 11 01:36:07 2023
    I would actually, but I'm guessing you're not in Australia, and I would say it'd probably cost you less to get one from ebay in your own country.

    If you're really keen I can probably find out how much postage would
    cost.

    Sorry I was on my test login, martin when I wrote this. Now ever one will know I don't even have one steady user on my board. lol

    I did kinda forget where you were, but if it's not too much I'm still interested.

    I'll netmail you my address shortly.


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to All on Sat Aug 12 10:05:23 2023
    On 09 Aug 2023 at 10:06p, Warpslide pondered and said...

    Anyone use these?
    I bought and older (2017) celeron the other day for a good price, loo like running anything other than Windows 10 on it may be an issue :(

    I have a NUC (NUC10i7FNH) here running VMWare ESXi. I have 4 Linux VMs running on it (one being this Mystic install). So far it hasn't given
    any issues. I even have a USB to serial adapter & USR 56k modem plugged into it.

    I bought a NUC6CAYH which has a Celeron J3455, 8 gig ram and a 240 SSD

    I'm hoping to use it for my radio station as part of a STL to my TX site.

    At present I have software running on the same PC that handles 1/10 Usenet+Games HUB but it's impacting on the audio stream to the TX site when games packets are being processed.

    Turns out I misjudged the audio input on the NUC so now I have bought a basic USB external sound card and am just waiting on that to arrive so I can set up a line input into to the NUC which is what I need to do to run the software I want to use :)

    I like the device, small and no noise, tempted to source a few more but leery over the range of models and which ones play nice (or are easier to work with) with different OS like Linux etc. Seems many of the later models have some support from the NUC site.

    Anyway I'll sort this NUC out first but the goal is to reduce my power footprint of PC's running in the house. There';s currently four running 24/7

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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to Avon on Sun Aug 13 10:50:02 2023
    Hi Avon,

    On Saturday August 12 2023, Avon said to All:

    I bought a NUC6CAYH which has a Celeron J3455, 8 gig ram and a 240 SSD

    I'm hoping to use it for my radio station as part of a STL to my TX
    site.

    You might find that being a celeron cpu, it's not going to have the grunt to
    do what you want. It's got limited cache, 1.5Ghz base frequency. Suprising
    that it's got 4 cores though...

    Anyway I'll sort this NUC out first but the goal is to reduce my power footprint of PC's running in the house. There';s currently four running 24/7

    You really need to look at Virtualization. You should be able to make all
    your system's vm's, except for the radio station one... Doing that would
    bring your pc footprint down to only two machines online 24/7 then.


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  • From Al Derosa@21:3/184 to Vorlon on Sun Aug 13 08:54:50 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to Avon on Sun Aug 13 2023 10:50 am

    Hi Avon,

    On Saturday August 12 2023, Avon said to All:

    You really need to look at Virtualization. You should be able to make all your system's vm's, except for the radio station one... Doing that would bring your pc footprint down to only two machines online 24/7 then.

    I can attest to what Vorlon is saying, I had at one time 7 PC's running different BBS', Servers, etc. I now only have 1 PC running 7 different VM's which handle all of my BBS', Network Hubs, Door Server, etc.. Makes for a much easier and smaller footprint at least for me. I run a Ryzen 5 machine with 128gigs or RAM, and 6 total TB's of HD space.. I use Proxmox to handle all of my VM's.. It's something to look at..

    AL
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to candycane on Fri Aug 11 07:43:00 2023
    candycane wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Have you suggested to them to switch to Debian?

    I'm not sure what the benefit would be, and how it would offset
    rebuilding our dev environment and 150 remote NUCs.



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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Aug 13 19:42:57 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to candycane on Fri Aug 11 2023 07:43 am

    I'm not sure what the benefit would be, and how it would offset
    rebuilding our dev environment and 150 remote NUCs.

    Wow, that's a lot of NUC's

    candycane

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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Al Derosa on Sun Aug 13 22:01:34 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Al Derosa to Vorlon on Sun Aug 13 2023 08:54 am

    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to Avon on Sun Aug 13 2023 10:50 am

    Hi Avon,

    On Saturday August 12 2023, Avon said to All:

    You really need to look at Virtualization. You should be able to make all your system's vm's, except for the radio station one... Doing that would bring your pc footprint down to only two machines online 24/7 then.

    I can attest to what Vorlon is saying, I had at one time 7 PC's running different BBS', Servers, etc. I now only have 1 PC running 7 different VM's which handle all of my BBS', Network Hubs, Door Server, etc.. Makes for a much easier and smaller footprint at least for me. I run a Ryzen 5 machine with 128gigs or RAM, and 6 total TB's of HD space.. I use Proxmox to handle all of my VM's.. It's something to look at..

    AL
    Al,
    Virtualization is the way to go. If i had physical servers for everything i would have computers all over my house. Also, don't forget about Docker Containers. They also do wonders!!!

    DaveW

    PS. - I am so happy this is finally working!!! Thanks again Al and Vorlon!!
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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Vorlon on Mon Aug 14 16:32:25 2023
    On 13 Aug 2023 at 10:50a, Vorlon pondered and said...

    You might find that being a celeron cpu, it's not going to have the
    grunt to do what you want. It's got limited cache, 1.5Ghz base
    frequency. Suprising that it's got 4 cores though...

    This is likely to be fine in this case, I'm wanting to use it to run a STL link to the radio station TX site. But yeah, take your point.

    You really need to look at Virtualization. You should be able to make all your system's vm's, except for the radio station one... Doing that would bring your pc footprint down to only two machines online 24/7 then.

    I need some training / guidance on all of this, this is true.

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Aug 14 10:12:10 2023
    Have you suggested to them to switch to Debian?

    I'm not sure what the benefit would be, and how it would offset
    rebuilding our dev environment and 150 remote NUCs.

    My Dreamhost server is due to be switched from Debian to Ubuntu when it gets replaced in about a month, for whatever reason.

    Which makes me wonder if the industry is trending in the opposite direction, for whatever reasons.

    But, "server for lots of VPSs for small websites" is... not the same market.

    (And, that said, I'm canceling my Dreamhost account toward the end of this month, so I won't see the change, anyway, for whatever difference that makes to anything.)

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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to Adept on Mon Aug 14 08:25:19 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Adept to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Aug 14 2023 10:12 am

    My Dreamhost server is due to be switched from Debian to Ubuntu when it gets replaced in about a month, for whatever reason.

    Which makes me wonder if the industry is trending in the opposite direction, for whatever reasons.

    Yeah, I personally am opposed to Ubuntu..

    candycane

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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to Al Derosa on Tue Aug 15 09:41:41 2023
    Hi al,

    On Sunday August 13 2023, Al Derosa said to Vorlon:

    You really need to look at Virtualization. You should be able to make
    all your system's vm's, except for the radio station one... Doing that
    would bring your pc footprint down to only two machines online 24/7
    then.

    I can attest to what Vorlon is saying, I had at one time 7 PC's running different BBS', Servers, etc. I now only have 1 PC running 7 different VM's which handle all of my BBS', Network Hubs, Door Server, etc..
    Makes for a much easier and smaller footprint at least for me. I run a Ryzen 5 machine with 128gigs or RAM, and 6 total TB's of HD space.. I
    use Proxmox to handle all of my VM's.. It's something to look at..

    Plus there is the added feature of just having everything in one place. I
    use proxmox in production on two servers. It works well. MY home server is still on ESXi though.. I'd have to take everything down to to test and it's
    a pain (I need hardware passthough).

    Also the added thing of backing uo the vm's.. It's built into the system.
    I've tested the backup's on a different box, and they have worked 99% of the time. The main thing that needs fixing is the boot process. That's quickly fixed by booting a iso in restore/recovery mode and re-installing grub (When linux)...



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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to Avon on Tue Aug 15 09:47:19 2023
    Hi Avon,

    On Monday August 14 2023, Avon said to Vorlon:

    You might find that being a celeron cpu, it's not going to have the
    grunt to do what you want. It's got limited cache, 1.5Ghz base
    frequency. Suprising that it's got 4 cores though...

    This is likely to be fine in this case, I'm wanting to use it to run a
    STL link to the radio station TX site. But yeah, take your point.

    You also might find that it takes a bit to spin up the cpu's freq to 2.xghz. You'll soon see if the system can handle it when you put it into place.

    You really need to look at Virtualization. You should be able to make
    all your system's vm's, except for the radio station one... Doing that
    would bring your pc footprint down to only two machines online 24/7
    then.

    I need some training / guidance on all of this, this is true.

    The main thing you need is a cpu with vt-x support (Most intel cpu's have
    that, except the low end guys... Heck even I5's have it). Then you need at least 8gb of ram (It'll be tight), but 16 is better. Then at least a 500gb
    SSD for the speed. I'd then use a 1tb+ spinning rust to store the backup's onto.

    Do you have a spare PC you could use to test on?



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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Adept on Mon Aug 14 17:42:22 2023
    My Dreamhost server is due to be switched from Debian to Ubuntu when it gets replaced in about a month, for whatever reason.

    I've changed all my VPSs to Ubuntu Server, though I was a long term Debian loyalist. The reasons really are that Ubuntu has more up-to-date packages, and I haven't dealt with any stability issues. Seems like it takes the best parts of Debian, tracks more recent versions of software, and gives the option of PPAs (which are not /officially/ supported on Debian, nor are they recommended).

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to Avon on Mon Aug 14 21:07:09 2023
    On 14 Aug 2023, Avon said the following...

    You really need to look at Virtualization. You should be able to make your system's vm's, except for the radio station one... Doing that wo bring your pc footprint down to only two machines online 24/7 then.

    I need some training / guidance on all of this, this is true.


    It's very simple Avon, Easiest way to get started is Youtube, watch some vids on Proxmox and go from there.. I started out with QEMU/KVM in Linux, but eventually moved to a Proxmox server, it was easier and less resources being used..

    Give it a try, you might just like it.. :)

    AL

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to Vorlon on Mon Aug 14 21:12:39 2023
    On 15 Aug 2023, Vorlon said the following...


    Plus there is the added feature of just having everything in one place. I use proxmox in production on two servers. It works well. MY home server
    is still on ESXi though.. I'd have to take everything down to to test
    and it's a pain (I need hardware passthough).

    Also the added thing of backing uo the vm's.. It's built into the system. I've tested the backup's on a different box, and they have worked 99% of the time. The main thing that needs fixing is the boot process. That's quickly fixed by booting a iso in restore/recovery mode and
    re-installing grub (When linux)...


    I agree, I just did a rebuild of a Terramaster NAS (The software it comes with sucks!!) I installed Proxmox on a new USB added 16gigs of RAM, and a 1TB Nvme drive installed proxmox on it, and then installed Xpenology on it. Works like a charm, so in addition to my real Synology, I have an Xpenology on my BBS machine network, which handles daily backups of all the VM's and Proxmox handles weekly Image backups of all the VM's. The backup software in Proxmox is outstanding!! Saved my butt a few times, My door server which was supposed to be backing up daily wasn't!! I had no backups except for an 2 week old Image from Proxmox, ran that it replaced the VM and I was back in business in about 10 minutes!

    Al

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to candycane on Tue Aug 15 09:15:53 2023
    Yeah, I personally am opposed to Ubuntu..

    Why?

    I tend not to care, and really just want something that enough people use that I can easily get information on how to do anything I want to do, and that there'll be enough support for security updates.

    I'm using Ubuntu for my BBS (through Vultr), but didn't choose it for any particularly big reason. And, since I already had that server, I then put all sorts of other sites on it.

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to esc on Tue Aug 15 09:22:06 2023
    I've changed all my VPSs to Ubuntu Server, though I was a long term
    Debian loyalist. The reasons really are that Ubuntu has more up-to-date packages, and I haven't dealt with any stability issues. Seems like it

    Those _do_ seem like solid reasons for it to be a default.

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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to Adept on Tue Aug 15 08:38:55 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Adept to candycane on Tue Aug 15 2023 09:15 am

    Yeah, I personally am opposed to Ubuntu..

    Why?

    Just like morally, with the snaps and stuff. Also I don't like gnome-desktop. Debian is fine.

    candycane

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  • From lime@21:3/182 to Avon on Tue Aug 15 21:35:41 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Bucko to Avon on Mon Aug 14 2023 21:07:09

    I need some training / guidance on all of this, this is true.

    It's very simple Avon, Easiest way to get started is Youtube, watch some vids on Proxmox and go from there.. I started out with QEMU/KVM in Linux, but eventually moved to a Proxmox server, it was easier and less resources being used..

    Give it a try, you might just like it.. :)

    I can vouch for Proxmox.
    A good thing about it is they publish images, so you can pull down an already-configured server image, then just boot it and go.

    I've had it running on old, broken laptops. Currently I've got a handful of old micro SFF office PCs with modest specs. Definitely youtube for some tutorials.

    lime
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  • From esc@21:4/173 to candycane on Tue Aug 15 15:13:15 2023
    Just like morally, with the snaps and stuff. Also I don't like gnome-desktop. Debian is fine.

    FWIW it's pretty easy to remove snaps entirely and there are many desktop choices. For example I always opt for Kubuntu (KDE Plasma) if using a desktop installation.

    That said, I prefer Ubuntu Server for all my headless instances.

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  • From HusTler@21:2/150 to Avon on Tue Aug 15 08:26:41 2023
    I bought and older (2017) celeron the other day for a good price, looks like running anything other than Windows 10 on it may be an issue :(

    Maybe? Where do you buy your PC's? Let me put that question to all. Where do you buy your PC's and Laptops?

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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to Bucko on Wed Aug 16 10:05:23 2023
    Hi Bucko,

    On Monday August 14 2023, Bucko said to Vorlon:

    Xpenology on it. Works like a charm, so in addition to my real Synology,
    I have an Xpenology on my BBS machine network, which handles daily
    backups of all the VM's and Proxmox handles weekly Image backups of all
    the VM's. The backup software in Proxmox is outstanding!! Saved my butt

    I'm only useing the vzdump/qmrestore cli programs for my backup's with some simple scripts that change a couple of setting on backup. Ie: local to
    another drive in the server dedicated to the backup's or to a remote site
    for off-site backup.

    Haven't needed to go further down the rabitt whole in that area.

    ... They say there's always one weirdo on the bus, but I couldn't find them!

    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen

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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to lime on Wed Aug 16 10:09:58 2023
    Hi Lime,

    On Tuesday August 15 2023, Lime said to Avon:

    I need some training / guidance on all of this, this is true.
    [...]
    I've had it running on old, broken laptops. Currently I've got a
    handful of old micro SFF office PCs with modest specs. Definitely
    youtube for some tutorials.

    When/if my ESXi falls over on my home server, then I'll move it to proxmox.
    No need to playaround with something that's currently working fine.

    Have plenty of other server related issues to sort out when doing upgrades
    of software!

    lime

    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen

    Rocking FSXnet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to HusTler on Tue Aug 15 18:38:47 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: HusTler to Avon on Tue Aug 15 2023 08:26 am

    I bought and older (2017) celeron the other day for a good price, looks
    like running anything other than Windows 10 on it may be an issue :(

    Maybe? Where do you buy your PC's? Let me put that question to all. Where do you buy your PC's and Laptops?

    For my main PC at home, I still tend to like to build my own desktop PC, but lately I've been buying the parts from Amazon and Newegg. For laptops, these days I lean toward direct-ordering one from the manufacturer, since some of them let you customize the options & specs to your liking and they'll build it and ship it to you. I did that with my Lenovo laptop, and I know Apple does that if you like Apple stuff.

    But aside from that, I'd probably look at who has the best deals - I'd probably shop at my local Best Buy or Costco, or perhaps order one from Amazon. Unfortunately, there aren't any Micro Center locations near me, and Fry's closed all their stores a couple years ago. I miss stores like CompUSA as well.

    Nightfox
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  • From esc@21:4/173 to HusTler on Tue Aug 15 22:42:11 2023
    Maybe? Where do you buy your PC's? Let me put that question to all. Where do you buy your PC's and Laptops?

    I either go direct to the manufacturer or Amazon. My reasons are 1) I prefer cutting out an unnecessary third party that can complicate things like service, warranty, etc., and 2) Amazon has a kickass return/replacement policy.

    The past three computers I've bought new, I bought direct from manufacturers. Lenovo, System76, and Apple.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to HusTler on Wed Aug 16 21:25:00 2023
    Maybe? Where do you buy your PC's? Let me put that question to all.
    Where do you buy your PC's and Laptops?

    Well most of mine still come from the long shop... for those not in the know, that be off the side of the road.. hard rubbish, dumped.. whatever, occasionally the "regional recycling centre" where you pay a nominal fee.

    Even more rarely I'll buy something new, usually parts...

    Spec


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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to esc on Wed Aug 16 08:44:05 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: esc to candycane on Tue Aug 15 2023 03:13 pm

    That said, I prefer Ubuntu Server for all my headless instances.

    Alright, good luck.

    candycane

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  • From nugax@21:1/107 to All on Wed Aug 16 09:51:10 2023
    Slackware!! Best and most stable!

    On 03:44 16/08 , candycane wrote:
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: esc to candycane on Tue Aug 15 2023 03:13 pm

    That said, I prefer Ubuntu Server for all my headless instances.

    Alright, good luck.

    candycane

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to HusTler on Wed Aug 16 15:52:14 2023
    I bought and older (2017) celeron the other day for a good price, loo like running anything other than Windows 10 on it may be an issue :(

    Maybe? Where do you buy your PC's? Let me put that question to all. Where do you buy your PC's and Laptops?

    I went to idealo.de, after deciding roughly what I wanted for the laptop, and after using pcpartpicker for making a desktop computer. And for that, at pcpartpicker, I started with a guide and then adjusted after reading comments. Still wound up buying a water cooler that _only_ fits on the bottom of my case, which is unfortunate for the longevity of my system.

    And, when using idealo.de, it was giving me price comparisons, and I ordered from a few different places, avoiding certain places for one reason or another. And, after that experience, I know have my favorites for ones where the process went smoothly (e.g., Alternate.de and CoolBlue), and try to avoid ones where it didn't (Galaxus.de, I believe, but mostly because they sold me a processor, and I canceled the order because they managed to not get it to me within 12 days or something, and who knows when they would actually have it in stock.).

    That's... probably not useful information to anyone, other than that pcpartpicker made building a system _way_ easier than it would have been.

    But I was buying new, rather than getting old systems. Old systems are, I figure, things you get on ebay or Craigslist, or similar sites. And becomes a bit like going thrifting -- never quite know how good of a deal you can get.

    Oh, in the past, I did like getting surplus stuff from my university's surplus store.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Adept on Wed Aug 16 06:44:00 2023
    Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    (And, that said, I'm canceling my Dreamhost account toward the end of
    this month, so I won't see the change, anyway, for whatever difference that makes to anything.)

    Sorry to hear you're leaving - I've been a customer for coming on 10
    years now. What prompted you to leave?



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Bucko on Wed Aug 16 08:40:00 2023
    Bucko wrote to Avon <=-

    It's very simple Avon, Easiest way to get started is Youtube, watch
    some vids on Proxmox and go from there.. I started out with QEMU/KVM in Linux, but eventually moved to a Proxmox server, it was easier and less resources being used..

    Seconded. If you have any experience with hypervisors, picking up
    Proxmox is a breeze.



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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Nightfox on Wed Aug 16 15:59:03 2023
    For my main PC at home, I still tend to like to build my own desktop PC, but lately I've been buying the parts from Amazon and Newegg. For

    I deliberately avoid going to Amazon. And generally pay a price to do so, with varying levels of success.

    But it's a challenge. There are a variety of things I really dislike with Amazon (on a per-purchase basis, rather than a general, "this is bad" sense, like their forcing people to have higher prices on their own sites.).

    E.g., how they'll bin products. So you can have one reputable supplier, and one scummy supplier. Neither pays the extra fee to separately bin their products. Scummy supplier gives product that's of lower quality / less tested / whatever. Reputable supplier does not.

    Person orders, choosing the reputable supplier, but is given one of the items from the scummy supplier.

    So, when possible, if I can find the reputable suppliers, I'll prefer them directly, even though it'll cost me more.

    The challenge, though, is that the scummy suppliers don't exactly advertise that they're awful.

    So oftentimes you have no information on who's good and who's not so good, and thus no power to choose / pay for the better supplier.

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Aug 16 18:00:04 2023
    (And, that said, I'm canceling my Dreamhost account toward the end of this month, so I won't see the change, anyway, for whatever differenc that makes to anything.)

    Sorry to hear you're leaving - I've been a customer for coming on 10
    years now. What prompted you to leave?

    I've been a customer longer than that, I think.

    That said, I decided to leave when they decided to stop supporting catchall e-mail addresses. And, for a while, were suggesting that people move stuff onto Google solutions, for e-mail.

    But saying that's the reason seems odd to say, at this point, because it was years ago that they decided that, and I moved my e-mail to mxroute.

    But out of laziness, since switching servers is a pain, I kept the account, and they would raise the prices, and eventually tell me that I needed to pay for more memory, because 300mb is basically not enough to run anything.

    And then slowly took away things that had made stuff easier for me. E.g., one-click installs/upgrades of mediawiki.

    Since they no longer had advantages over other servers, were restricted in a variety of ways that made it impossible to run certain things (e.g., my BBS, which I was/am running on a Vultr server), and honestly the service was largely a duplication of the other server I had...

    Well, I've basically been wasting around $20/month because I hadn't moved everything over to a server that gave me more control and more resources, for less money.

    I might end up upgrading my Vultr server a bit more, as needed, and I could use a server that's just for serving larger files / having more hard drive space, but basically Dreamhost was clearly no longer the best options for my needs.

    And, at some point I probably would've had some level of loyalty to them, but that was before they got rid of catchall e-mails, and back when they had the weird monthly e-mails.

    I probably wouldn't recommend Dreamhost, but I probably wouldn't recommend against them, either. If it works for you, they seem decent enough.

    It _is_ a bit odd, though, as I think I've been using Dreamhost for most of my adult life.

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to esc on Wed Aug 16 13:24:00 2023
    esc wrote to HusTler <=-

    The past three computers I've bought new, I bought direct from manufacturers. Lenovo, System76, and Apple.

    I am currently using a 10-year-old Lenovo (T510) laptop that I love and
    am reluctant to replace, but am creeping into the window where I will need
    to do so. I've often said I'd not buy anything but another Lenovo, but
    am curious how you've liked the System76 (and whether it's a laptop or a desktop). Have heard good things about them, and that they're
    Linux-friendly. Would like to hear your thoughts on that, thanks.





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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to nugax on Wed Aug 16 11:29:00 2023
    Slackware!! Best and most stable!

    Well, I haven't used it. Wouldn't know.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Adept on Wed Aug 16 14:00:40 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Adept to Nightfox on Wed Aug 16 2023 03:59 pm

    I deliberately avoid going to Amazon. And generally pay a price to do so, with varying levels of success.

    But it's a challenge. There are a variety of things I really dislike with Amazon (on a per-purchase basis, rather than a general, "this is bad" sense, like their forcing people to have higher prices on their own sites.).

    E.g., how they'll bin products. So you can have one reputable supplier, and one scummy supplier. Neither pays the extra fee to separately bin their products. Scummy supplier gives product that's of lower quality / less tested / whatever. Reputable supplier does not.

    Person orders, choosing the reputable supplier, but is given one of the items from the scummy supplier.

    That makes sense when buying from the 3rd-party sellers. A lot of what I buy from Amazon is from Amazon themselves rather than 3rd-party sellers. I tend to be weary of 3rd-party sellers, though on the occasions I have bought from 3rd parties (used movies & music, etc.), generally they have been okay, and accepting returns if the item is bad.

    Nightfox
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Gamgee on Wed Aug 16 14:05:48 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Gamgee to esc on Wed Aug 16 2023 01:24 pm

    I am currently using a 10-year-old Lenovo (T510) laptop that I love and am reluctant to replace, but am creeping into the window where I will need to do so. I've often said I'd not buy anything but another Lenovo, but am

    I also have a Lenovo which I bought in 2014. I really like it (and it was a fairly high-spec laptop at the time I bought it). The only thing I really don't like so much about it is that it has the big trackpad that also doubles as the trackpad buttons. I think Lenovo went back to making the trackpad buttons separate in their newer laptops.

    I actually ended up not using that laptop nearly as much as I thought I would. When I bought it, one thing I was thinking of doing with it is editing photos while traveling (i.e., going to the coast overnight, taking photos there and being able to edit them on the laptop while there) - but I haven't done a whole lot of that. I've brought out the laptop several times recently to play Jackbox party games with family, and it has worked fairly well for that.

    Currently it has Windows 10 on it, and it's old enough that Windows 11 refuses to install on it.

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to Vorlon on Wed Aug 16 18:09:31 2023
    On 16 Aug 2023, Vorlon said the following...

    Hi Bucko,

    I'm only useing the vzdump/qmrestore cli programs for my backup's with some simple scripts that change a couple of setting on backup. Ie: local to another drive in the server dedicated to the backup's or to a remote site for off-site backup.


    I use the Proxmox built in image backup, works like a charm. Although, I have been told that the Proxmox Backup server is really outstanding. I am going to look into that as Active Backup for Business as nice as it is, is always so far behind on the Linux side, that it takes forever for them to support new Kernals, I am still waiting for them to support Debian 12!

    Jeez..

    AL

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  • From esc@21:4/173 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Aug 16 17:44:47 2023
    Seconded. If you have any experience with hypervisors, picking up
    Proxmox is a breeze.

    Now I'm interested in Proxmox whereas I haven't really looked into it in the past. I'd like to have a single, fanless(ideally) low power box that can simultaneously run:

    1. Modern linux (probably ubuntu server or similar)
    2. Windows 7 32bit (for doorgames, etc)
    3. Some stripped down linux kernel to strictly launch an Amiga emulator

    So basically, this would be proxmox with three VMs, right? Can someone recommend some sort of hardware for this?

    It's worth mentioning that 1) above would need a bit of horsepower for doing compiles and stuff.

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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Gamgee on Wed Aug 16 17:50:06 2023
    I am currently using a 10-year-old Lenovo (T510) laptop that I love and am reluctant to replace, but am creeping into the window where I will
    need to do so. I've often said I'd not buy anything but another
    Lenovo, but am curious how you've liked the System76 (and whether it's
    a laptop or a desktop). Have heard good things about them, and that they're Linux-friendly. Would like to hear your thoughts on that, thanks.

    Great question, and one I'll do my best to answer.

    First off, my Lenovo is a Carbon X1 gen 8. It's lightweight, ultraportable, powerful, reliable, has long battery life, and probably the all-time best keyboard in a laptop.

    My Sys76 machine is an Oryx Pro 10. This machine is specc'd pretty high. It has a 20 core 12 gen i7-12700H, 64gb RAM, Intel iGPU, NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti Mobile. This machine is bigger, heavier, the fans run incessantly, but man...it has some horsepower. Lately I've been using this one pretty much nonstop.

    My general thoughts on the matter are, the Lenovo feels like a better machine. The build quality, keyboard, etc., are all amazing. There are no dead pixels, the audio is better, it's all around just a better machine. What it lacks is a discreet GPU, frankly, and that's what the Sys76 provides.

    I think if you're happy with your Lenovo, I'd probably stick with them. The customer support is quite a bit better, and I think your track record of owning one without problems for so long speaks for itself.

    Now, one manufacturer I'd like to look into more deeply is frame.work - have you seen those? They seem pretty slick.

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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to Bucko on Thu Aug 17 10:54:24 2023
    Hi Bucko,

    On Wednesday August 16 2023, Bucko said to Vorlon:

    Hi Bucko, I'm only useing the vzdump/qmrestore cli programs for my
    backup's with some simple scripts that change a couple of setting on
    backup. Ie: local to another drive in the server dedicated to the
    backup's or to a remote site for off-site backup.

    I use the Proxmox built in image backup, works like a charm. Although, I have been told that the Proxmox Backup server is really outstanding. I

    That's what I'm doing.. Have not looked at the proxmox backup server, as
    it's just adding more complex layers that I don't need.

    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen

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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Bucko on Wed Aug 16 23:04:20 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Bucko to Avon on Mon Aug 14 2023 09:07 pm

    It's very simple Avon, Easiest way to get started is Youtube, watch some vids on Proxmox and go from there.. I started out with QEMU/KVM in Linux, but eventually moved to a Proxmox server, it was easier and less resources being used..

    Give it a try, you might just like it.. :)

    AL
    Al,
    Besides talking to you weekly!!! hahahaha I started watching a few people on youtube that are great resources. I often watch NetworkChuck, Awesome Open Source, Virtualize everything and a few others. They make it very easy to learn how to get started. A year ago i barely knew Linux and (although very far from an expert) now i am sufficient in doing what i need. I went from a single Proxmox server and now i just purchased a Dual Xeon Dell PowerEdge. That will most likely run Windows 2019 Data center with Vsphere though. I used to work in Corporate IT but was well on the Microsoft and Cisco side of IT back in the day. All I would add is that there are a lot of great resources on Youtube to learn and as i learned recently with improving my Synchronet BBS, there are great resources in this scene that would also lend a hand in learning. I was shocked on the help i get from the BBS community. It is truly heart warming to know that there are still helpful people!!! :)

    DaveW
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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Vorlon on Wed Aug 16 23:19:58 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to Bucko on Thu Aug 17 2023 10:54 am

    Hi Bucko,

    On Wednesday August 16 2023, Bucko said to Vorlon:

    Hi Bucko, I'm only useing the vzdump/qmrestore cli programs for my
    backup's with some simple scripts that change a couple of setting on
    backup. Ie: local to another drive in the server dedicated to the
    backup's or to a remote site for off-site backup.

    I use the Proxmox built in image backup, works like a charm. Although, I have been told that the Proxmox Backup server is really outstanding. I

    That's what I'm doing.. Have not looked at the proxmox backup server, as it's just adding more complex layers that I don't need.

    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen
    Hello,
    My current backup is simple. I do a full stop VM backup that goes directly onto my QNAP NAS through an NFS mount within Proxmox. I have had a major crash of my Renegade BBS while i was on vacation in Pennsylvania and i was able to get a VM restore within 10 minutes so it seems to be a great solution. I also do additional backups at the file level within each VM for redundancy. I forgot to mention that the VM backup is weekly.
    On another note. Do you remember that server Vorlon that i sent you the specs about? The PowerEdge you said was a great choice. It was $700 but i didnt have the money to spend so i told him no.. then he lowered it to 600 and then 500.. So i picked it up for $500. It comes with Windows 2019 Datacenter and Vsphere licenses. I saw it running and everything seems to be working. Hopefully as i recover more from surgery, I will be able to get it up and running. :)

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to esc on Thu Aug 17 07:18:00 2023
    esc wrote to Gamgee <=-

    I am currently using a 10-year-old Lenovo (T510) laptop that I love and
    am reluctant to replace, but am creeping into the window where I will
    need to do so. I've often said I'd not buy anything but another
    Lenovo, but am curious how you've liked the System76 (and whether it's
    a laptop or a desktop). Have heard good things about them, and that they're Linux-friendly. Would like to hear your thoughts on that, thanks.

    Great question, and one I'll do my best to answer.

    First off, my Lenovo is a Carbon X1 gen 8. It's lightweight, ultraportable, powerful, reliable, has long battery life, and
    probably the all-time best keyboard in a laptop.

    Nice, and quite a bit more modern than my ThinkPad T510. Agreed on the keyboards from Lenovo - they are simply the best.

    My Sys76 machine is an Oryx Pro 10. This machine is specc'd
    pretty high. It has a 20 core 12 gen i7-12700H, 64gb RAM, Intel
    iGPU, NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti Mobile. This machine is bigger, heavier,
    the fans run incessantly, but man...it has some horsepower.
    Lately I've been using this one pretty much nonstop.

    Yes, my impression from their website was that you get a LOT of
    horsepower for the money.

    My general thoughts on the matter are, the Lenovo feels like a
    better machine. The build quality, keyboard, etc., are all
    amazing. There are no dead pixels, the audio is better, it's all
    around just a better machine. What it lacks is a discreet GPU,
    frankly, and that's what the Sys76 provides.

    That's the kind of info I'm looking for, thanks. I am attracted to the
    specs of the Sys76, especially the discreet GPU's, as you said. But....
    the Lenovo is a known entity for me, with top quality, which is perhaps
    the single biggest factor in my decision-making.

    I think if you're happy with your Lenovo, I'd probably stick with
    them. The customer support is quite a bit better, and I think
    your track record of owning one without problems for so long
    speaks for itself.

    Very true. Not one single problem with this laptop, ever. It will be difficult to NOT go with another Lenovo, for sure.

    Now, one manufacturer I'd like to look into more deeply is
    frame.work - have you seen those? They seem pretty slick.

    Wow, hadn't heard of this one. Holy crap. The modularity is
    incredible, with future-proof upgrade options. The quality is an
    unknown, but will be researching this one too.

    I've got to get busy and figure this out so Santa has time to get me
    something on time. :-)

    Thanks a lot for the helpful reply!



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  • From HusTler@21:2/150 to esc on Thu Aug 17 07:11:06 2023
    Just like morally, with the snaps and stuff. Also I don't like gnome-desktop. Debian is fine.

    FWIW it's pretty easy to remove snaps entirely and there are many desktop choices. For example I always opt for Kubuntu (KDE Plasma) if using a desktop installation.


    And I prefer Lubuntu. There are many flavors in the Linux family of OS's. The important thing is it free and not under Microsofts control.

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  • From HusTler@21:2/150 to Vorlon on Thu Aug 17 07:12:47 2023
    Rocking FSXnet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.

    ATTA BOY!!

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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Gamgee on Thu Aug 17 09:34:33 2023
    Thanks a lot for the helpful reply!

    My pleasure! Glad I was able to be of service. Cheers.

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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to candycane on Thu Aug 17 16:58:38 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: candycane to Adept on Tue Aug 15 2023 08:38 am

    Just like morally, with the snaps and stuff. Also I don't like gnome-desktop


    I would not be comfortable pushing Ubuntu into production since their quality control seems lacking to me. Running newer software does not matter much in most scenarios. Wanting the lattest version is most often than not a psychological thing.

    That said, I get why people may get Ubuntu for production. Ubuntu has a company behind from which you may buy support, and if you are sysadmining for a firm you can tell your boss that if anything goes wrong, you can hold a third party responsible up to a point. The alternative to Ubuntu, when you want something like that is Red Hat, which is a bit tricky to work with... if you need to deploy many Red Hat virtual machines or something you need to license them all, and they are cracking down on clones (so you can t have a couple of real Red Hats and then a number of clones in your firm).

    I am also not the greatest fan of alternate package formats myself.

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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to Nightfox on Thu Aug 17 17:05:44 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Nightfox to HusTler on Tue Aug 15 2023 06:38 pm

    For my main PC at home, I still tend to like to build my own desktop PC, but he options & specs to your liking and they'll build it and ship it to you.


    I tend to buy most of my stuff from second hand dealers. Unless you need raw computing power, I find it a bit wasteful to pay +200 bucks for a computer when I can pay 90.

    People has a knack for buying modern gear and then making it run slower than old gear, too. I don t think there is much of a performance difference for desktop oriented task between an old computer or a new computer these days. Outside of gaming and graphics, that is.

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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to nugax on Thu Aug 17 17:13:28 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: nugax to All on Wed Aug 16 2023 09:51 am

    Slackware!! Best and most stable!

    Slackware is quite good as a presonal server or workstation, but their release engineering does suck so much.

    IMO they need to embrace the BSD model, which would not be hard to do because they are very close to it. They could have a team for the core of the distribution, and then a system for community contributors to submit package builds in (ie. SlackBuilds.org). And then they ought to pick or create an official framework for managing these community builds, in order to save people the effort of wading through sbotools, slackrepo and every other third party solution people is hacking in in order to solve the current deficencies of the distribution model.

    Still, for all its faults it is one of the few Linux distributions I would pick to run a serious personal project on.

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to Vorlon on Thu Aug 17 18:11:58 2023
    On 17 Aug 2023, Vorlon said the following...


    Hi Bucko,

    That's what I'm doing.. Have not looked at the proxmox backup server, as it's just adding more complex layers that I don't need.

    \/orlon

    I hear ya, my son mentioned it to me, he is supposedly running it at his house. I need to get there to see what he has going on though.. LOL

    AL

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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to candycane on Thu Aug 17 17:22:50 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: candycane to nugax on Wed Aug 16 2023 11:29 am

    Slackware!! Best and most stable!

    Well, I haven't used it. Wouldn't know.

    The official Slackware release is usually tested well enough that you will find no glaring issues using it - as opposed to many mainstream Linux distributions that release quickly but do not test as much as they claim they do.

    Slackware is engineered by fans of the KISS principle, so even if new software is included, it is included in a KISS way (so maybe you have modern components for subsystems, but they are not organized in a complex way).

    IMO Slackware is great because it allows you to work with a stable Linux distribution that uses tested software while everybody else is going wonkers with the new shinny thing. Sure, maybe pulseaudio and wayland and PAM and whatever are great and everybody is including them in their distros. Slackware has a tendency to only include controversial components like those once everybody else has suffered through their issues and discovered them, socomponents are in a refined state when they are brought in. If they ever are.

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  • From fusion@21:1/616 to Arelor on Thu Aug 17 18:31:39 2023
    On 17 Aug 2023, Arelor said the following...

    Slackware is quite good as a presonal server or workstation, but their release engineering does suck so much.

    so you don't like Slackware. you don't have to hide it.

    there's an endless parade of people who say all the exact same things you say over and over. they stop using Slackware and they go away. and Slackware perseveres, just as it always has, without them.

    it's funny cause most of the posts i see amount to screaming "i'm lazy!" or they don't understand (and don't want to learn) anything.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Arelor on Thu Aug 17 15:55:29 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Arelor to Nightfox on Thu Aug 17 2023 05:05 pm

    People has a knack for buying modern gear and then making it run slower than old gear, too. I don t think there is much of a performance difference for desktop oriented task between an old computer or a new computer these days. Outside of gaming and graphics, that is.

    I'm not sure if I've seen an example of someone making a newer computer run slower than old gear. But when I build a new desktop PC for myself, I usually install a fresh copy of Windows on it and just install what I need, and that tends to give a fairly fast system.

    And I agree, compared to a computer made last year, a computer made now isn't much faster. These days I've been doing some GPU-intensive (and CPU-intensive) tasks and I like occasional gaming too though.. About a year and a half ago, I bought a new graphics card for my PC, and it made a significant speed improvement for a couple things I use my PC for.

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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to DaveW on Fri Aug 18 09:52:44 2023
    Hi Dave,

    On Wednesday August 16 2023, Davew said to Vorlon:

    That's what I'm doing.. Have not looked at the proxmox backup server, as
    it's just adding more complex layers that I don't need.

    My current backup is simple. I do a full stop VM backup that goes directly onto my QNAP NAS through an NFS mount within Proxmox. I have

    Do you know that you don't have to stop the vm's to do a backup?
    My longest backup takes 15 minutes, and that is to long to have it offline
    as it's needed by clients to access.

    had a major crash of my Renegade BBS while i was on vacation in Pennsylvania and i was able to get a VM restore within 10 minutes so it seems to be a great solution. I also do additional backups at the file level within each VM for redundancy. I forgot to mention that the VM
    backup is weekly.

    My server's are 70 miles and 620 miles away, so everything is done remotly!

    When data doesn't change that often then a weekkly is fine... When data
    chages on a more regular matter, then it needs to be more often...
    The shortest time here between backup's is 6hours, with the next being 12
    and 24 hours.

    it to 600 and then 500.. So i picked it up for $500. It comes with
    Windows 2019 Datacenter and Vsphere licenses. I saw it running and everything seems to be working. Hopefully as i recover more from
    surgery, I will be able to get it up and running. :)

    Good job at getting it at a lower price. Do you have the license key's?
    I'd blow the software away and re-install just to be on the safe side...

    \/orlon
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    Stephen

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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to Bucko on Fri Aug 18 10:05:21 2023
    Hi Bucko,

    On Thursday August 17 2023, Bucko said to Vorlon:

    Hi Bucko, That's what I'm doing.. Have not looked at the proxmox
    backup server, as it's just adding more complex layers that I don't
    need.

    I hear ya, my son mentioned it to me, he is supposedly running it at his house. I need to get there to see what he has going on though.. LOL

    Good luck... I did read up on the backup server, but prefer to stick to how
    I'm doing things. Plus why change something that's working... It was setup before the backup server was released.

    I can say the same about there mail gateway setup.. It's lacking some
    features and options that my current setup performs even with it's dated UI.

    \/orlon
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    Stephen

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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to esc on Fri Aug 18 10:10:18 2023
    Hi Esc,

    On Wednesday August 16 2023, Esc said to poindexter FORTRAN:

    1. Modern linux (probably ubuntu server or similar)
    2. Windows 7 32bit (for doorgames, etc)
    3. Some stripped down linux kernel to strictly
    launch an Amiga emulator

    Proxmox will do 1 and 2... With 3, Like all Amiga emulator's, your going to have issues with remote access and the gui issues...

    You'd be better off using a Raspberry pi for the Amiga setup.

    So basically, this would be proxmox with three VMs, right? Can someone recommend some sort of hardware for this?

    What hardware do you currently have? Unlike the current ESXi limitations, if
    it can run linux (Proxmox is based on Debian), then proxmox will run on it.

    You just then need a bit of ram.. I've ran it on a Intel Q9600 with 8gb of
    ram, and gave the VM 6gb.. This was just to test the restore functions of proxmox.

    It's worth mentioning that 1) above would need a bit of horsepower for doing compiles and stuff.

    That's going to be what ever the host system has then.

    \/orlon
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    Stephen

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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to Arelor on Thu Aug 17 21:55:31 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Arelor to candycane on Thu Aug 17 2023 04:58 pm

    That said, I get why people may get Ubuntu for production. Ubuntu has a company behind from which you may buy support, and if you are sysadmining for a firm you can tell your boss that if anything goes wrong, you can hold a third party responsible up to a point. The alternative to Ubuntu,

    Plus, ubuntu is unfortunately the most well known distro.. I've met people who confuse Linux with Ubuntu, and the whole "selling support" definitely helps make it more appealing..

    candycane

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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to Arelor on Thu Aug 17 21:58:19 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Arelor to candycane on Thu Aug 17 2023 05:22 pm

    Slackware is engineered by fans of the KISS principle, so even if new software is included, it is included in a KISS way (so maybe you have modern components for subsystems, but they are not organized in a complex way).

    Oh, so the distro's based on stability like Debian? Sounds pretty neat, I might use it next time I need a server.

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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Vorlon on Fri Aug 18 00:11:25 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to DaveW on Fri Aug 18 2023 09:52 am

    Do you know that you don't have to stop the vm's to do a backup?
    My longest backup takes 15 minutes, and that is to long to have it offline as it's needed by clients to access.
    My server's are 70 miles and 620 miles away, so everything is done remotly!
    Vorlon,
    I dont mind bringin those things down as they are not not mission critical for anything. They mostly run the BBSs and my BBS website. My Linux server is another thing. That does run my WordPress Server and my remote access tools but i do not need them and the backup of all 3 VMs are done within 15 minutes. It is super quick actually. I was going to change the Windows backups from Stop backup because I do have to babysit them because sometimes they dont shut down.


    When data doesn't change that often then a weekkly is fine... When data chages on a more regular matter, then it needs to be more often...
    The shortest time here between backup's is 6hours, with the next being 12 and 24 hours.

    it to 600 and then 500.. So i picked it up for $500. It comes with Windows 2019 Datacenter and Vsphere licenses. I saw it running and everything seems to be working. Hopefully as i recover more from surgery, I will be able to get it up and running. :)

    Good job at getting it at a lower price. Do you have the license key's?
    I'd blow the software away and re-install just to be on the safe side...
    Yeah.. I do have the Server 2019 Datacenter license but i have not seen any VMWare license but i believe ESXi can be installed for free. I am pretty good at windows and for now i am just testing but i may reinstall or change over to ESXi with 2019 as a VM or Perhaps Proxmox. I am not sure if it will detect all of the hardware. That is what i am nervous about as i am not a Linux Expert. It has 24 DIMM slots and there is 58gb RAM right now. I plan on buying 16GB DIMMS until i get to 384gb RAM. 16gb DIMMS are pretty cheap. The seller has a ton of 4gb DIMMS in there.. I will slowly replace them as i replace them. I also plan on just buying 2gb SATA SSD drives. there is 7 SAS/SATA slots available. I dont think i need more than that for now. I have a QNAP with 21TB of space and an old Dlink NAS with 12TB.. lol I also forgot that my Proxmox has 4tb. lol WOW THIS IS GETTING LONG!!!!! lol

    DaveW
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Adept on Fri Aug 18 07:12:00 2023
    Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    That said, I decided to leave when they decided to stop supporting catchall e-mail addresses. And, for a while, were suggesting that
    people move stuff onto Google solutions, for e-mail.

    They pissed me off when they stopped supporting mail forwarding on local mailboxes. I used to forward my email off to gmail but liked having a
    local copy as a backup.

    But out of laziness, since switching servers is a pain, I kept the account, and they would raise the prices, and eventually tell me that I needed to pay for more memory, because 300mb is basically not enough to run anything.

    Interesting. I've never had any complaints except for the odd email
    about high memory usage when I was running a photo gallery and it was
    doing a lot of rendering/thumbnail generation. I'm on a shared server,
    though.

    Well, I've basically been wasting around $20/month because I hadn't
    moved everything over to a server that gave me more control and more resources, for less money.

    I got grandfathered in at $11/month for a shared plan, it's mostly
    worth it because I can spin up a wordpress site in a couple of minutes
    -- and I'm not looking forward to moving my "permanent" sites.





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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to esc on Fri Aug 18 07:24:00 2023
    esc wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    1. Modern linux (probably ubuntu server or similar)
    2. Windows 7 32bit (for doorgames, etc)
    3. Some stripped down linux kernel to strictly launch an Amiga emulator

    So basically, this would be proxmox with three VMs, right? Can someone recommend some sort of hardware for this?

    Any NUC worth their weight should run it. An Ultra-small form factor PC
    would make a nice small server. If space isn't a concern, any desktop or
    laptop from the past couple of years would do nicely.

    I started running Proxmox on a Thinkpad T450 with a mobile i5 and 20
    megs of RAM and it does nicely. I'm moving my workloads to a desktop
    with a 6th gen i5, 32 GB of RAM and a NVMe SSD, and it barely breaks a
    sweat with a handful of containers, 2 Ubuntu VMs, and the BBS.

    You wouldn't think a laptop would make a great server, but it's worked
    fine, it was $15 with a broken keyboard, and my home lab started off
    with all cast-off components that were free or parts-only.

    Plus, the built-in UPS is nice. :)





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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Gamgee on Fri Aug 18 08:43:00 2023
    Gamgee wrote to esc <=-

    I am currently using a 10-year-old Lenovo (T510) laptop that I love and
    am reluctant to replace

    Why replace it? with 8GB of RAM and an SSD, the x10 units are pretty
    decent, if heavy.

    I have a T410 that I love - one of the last Thinkpads with that great
    keyboard.


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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Aug 18 12:34:00 2023
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Gamgee wrote to esc <=-

    I am currently using a 10-year-old Lenovo (T510) laptop that I love and
    am reluctant to replace

    Why replace it? with 8GB of RAM and an SSD, the x10 units are
    pretty decent, if heavy.

    Well, that's a good point. I certainly don't *have* to replace it, just
    seems like "it's time". Mine does have 8G and an SSD, and is reasonably
    fast with a mobile i7 CPU of some flavor. Maybe it's the 1600x900
    screen, which is fine actually, but I also use other computers at 1920x1080
    and it's a little different. You're right though, I may need to re-think
    this whole thing. This laptop is very comfortable for me.

    I have a T410 that I love - one of the last Thinkpads with that
    great keyboard.

    Indeed. A major point there, as I think new Thinkpads don't have the
    same thing, and seem to have strange screen resolutions. As I was
    discussing with 'esc', I'm looking pretty hard at the System76 lineup,
    they have some impressive specs which are well ahead of Lenovo's
    offerings for equivalent money.

    ... UNPRISON YOUR THINK RHINO

    LOL... perfect.



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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to Vorlon on Fri Aug 18 19:40:14 2023
    On 18 Aug 2023, Vorlon said the following...

    Good luck... I did read up on the backup server, but prefer to stick to how I'm doing things. Plus why change something that's working... It was setup before the backup server was released.

    I can say the same about there mail gateway setup.. It's lacking some features and options that my current setup performs even with it's dated UI.

    I will play around with it, if it backs up my Linux VM's with no issues, (Active Backup For Business doesn't like Debian 12) I will give it a shot, if it is something I don't want to pursue, I just delete the VM.. LOL

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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Aug 18 20:20:09 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Gamgee on Fri Aug 18 2023 08:43 am

    I have a T410 that I love - one of the last Thinkpads with that great keyboard.

    Yea same, the keyboard is so nice feeling.

    candycane

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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to DaveW on Sat Aug 19 10:34:31 2023
    Hi Dave,

    On Friday August 18 2023, Davew said to Vorlon:

    Do you know that you don't have to stop the vm's to do a backup?
    My longest backup takes 15 minutes, and that is to long to have it

    I dont mind bringin those things down as they are not not mission critical for anything. They mostly run the BBSs and my BBS website. My Linux server is another thing. That does run my WordPress Server and my

    Ok. Just thought I'd put it out there, that they can be kept running during
    the backup.

    Good job at getting it at a lower price. Do you have the license key's?
    I'd blow the software away and re-install just to be on the safe side...
    Yeah.. I do have the Server 2019 Datacenter license but i have not seen
    any VMWare license but i believe ESXi can be installed for free. I am

    Yes there is a Free ESXi, but it looses a lot of the functions of the full product.

    You can get the licencse information by logging onto the web gui.. Then
    it's: Host->Manage->Licencing tab...

    pretty good at windows and for now i am just testing but i may reinstall
    or change over to ESXi with 2019 as a VM or Perhaps Proxmox. I am not
    sure if it will detect all of the hardware. That is what i am nervous

    Proxmox should do pretty well at detecting this. The only thing is if the
    raid is hardware raid or fake/software raid. But even then you can work
    around that anyway...

    \/orlon
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    Stephen

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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Vorlon on Fri Aug 18 23:24:00 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to DaveW on Sat Aug 19 2023 10:34 am

    Ok. Just thought I'd put it out there, that they can be kept running during the backup.


    I may give it a try with the Windows VMs. I am ignorant to the fine details of thos backups. I am sure that i will be rethinking a lot of things as i get this new server up and running. I think one of the first things i want to figure out is using Rsync with Windows Server.. I want to mirror my QNAP NAS. I am currently using Rsync between my QNAP and old dlink NAS (bought in 2004). i would like to transfer that job to the new server. Data redundancy is priority as i do not trust QNAP's security fully.

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to DaveW on Sat Aug 19 14:55:55 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: DaveW to Vorlon on Fri Aug 18 2023 11:24 pm

    to figure out is using Rsync with Windows Server.. I want to mirror my QNAP NAS. I am currently using Rsync between my QNAP and old dlink NAS (bought in 2004). i would like to transfer that job to the new server. Data redundancy is priority as i do not trust QNAP's security fully.

    I recently updated my QNAP because the original one lost access to 3 off the disks - which I havent yet debugged why.

    But on my new (and old QNAP) - I actually ran TrueNAS, and it works a treat. TrueNAS is on a USB stick (well two, mirrored) - and all I did was pick up the drives into the new QNAP and up and running.

    Data backup is important for me to - my QNAP is my backup target for all the things I do at home (and on cloud machines). I use restic for all that, with minio on the qnap storing all those backups...

    For my important files on the QNAP, I restic to another drive in the QNAP, dedicated for backups, which replicates out nightly to pCloud. Restic does that job too - so I dont have to worry about copy bloat or encryption (its all taken care of).


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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to deon on Sat Aug 19 01:25:53 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: deon to DaveW on Sat Aug 19 2023 02:55 pm

    I recently updated my QNAP because the original one lost access to 3 off the disks - which I havent yet debugged why.

    But on my new (and old QNAP) - I actually ran TrueNAS, and it works a treat. TrueNAS is on a USB stick (well two, mirrored) - and all I did was pick up the drives into the new QNAP and up and running.

    Data backup is important for me to - my QNAP is my backup target for all the things I do at home (and on cloud machines). I use restic for all that, with minio on the qnap storing all those backups...

    For my important files on the QNAP, I restic to another drive in the QNAP, dedicated for backups, which replicates out nightly to pCloud. Restic does that job too - so I dont have to worry about copy bloat or encryption (its all taken care of).


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    Deon,
    I have a messy but effective backup strategy. lol I heard TrueNAS runs great on QNAP systems. I am still Using the QNAP OS. I do like the container station and it does what i need. My biggest distrust with QNAP was thier security. I was hit with one of the early ransonwares that took advantage of a bug in thier online services. Luckily because i backup.. I was able to eventually recover everything except my old mp3s and a few other things. To improve, i setup an even more robust backup. I usually have at least 2 other copies of all my data now. I wont let that happen again!!! I am not familiar with restic. Is it good?

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  • From esc@21:4/173 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Aug 19 00:27:02 2023
    Any NUC worth their weight should run it. An Ultra-small form factor PC would make a nice small server. If space isn't a concern, any desktop or laptop from the past couple of years would do nicely.

    I've have very positive experiences with NUCs in the past so this is a good rec. Thanks.

    I started running Proxmox on a Thinkpad T450 with a mobile i5 and 20
    megs of RAM and it does nicely. I'm moving my workloads to a desktop
    with a 6th gen i5, 32 GB of RAM and a NVMe SSD, and it barely breaks a sweat with a handful of containers, 2 Ubuntu VMs, and the BBS.

    Assume you means 20 gigs of RAM? :P

    That's good to know, though. Seems like it's pretty light to run things I'd need for my BBS needs to be met.

    You wouldn't think a laptop would make a great server, but it's worked fine, it was $15 with a broken keyboard, and my home lab started off
    with all cast-off components that were free or parts-only.

    Interesting...I have an old iBook with a Core 2 Duo. I have Win7 on there just because I wanted to see if it would work and it does, amazingly well. I wonder if there's a world where that machine can be a proxmox box. Or maybe I should just keep win7 on there and use that as my win7 machine. Decisions...

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to DaveW on Sat Aug 19 21:06:54 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: DaveW to deon on Sat Aug 19 2023 01:25 am

    Howdy,

    copies of all my data now. I wont let that happen again!!! I am not familiar with restic. Is it good?

    I'm a fan of restic, been using it for a couple of years now. It only backs up changed files, as well as compressing and encrypting those backups to a target - where that target can be a drive, another machine running restic, or an S3 target. (There are probably a couple of other options there too).

    I use the S3 target (using minio on the QNAP running TrueNas), as well as to another drive. So I can restore back to a point in time depending on how many days I leave in the respository.

    It also supports multiple OS'es, so it backs up my windows, mac, pi's and linux guests.

    You can also fuse mount backups, so it appears as a mount point - I havent used that (only for the lack of needing it).

    Since I use docker extensively, I use docker labels + a cron script to backup individual containers (and pausing them during the backup), or to dump the database when a container is a DB.

    Its saved me a couple of times...


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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Aug 19 11:53:35 2023
    They pissed me off when they stopped supporting mail forwarding on local mailboxes. I used to forward my email off to gmail but liked having a local copy as a backup.

    Ah, yeah. I do get why they did it -- Google would start marking everything coming from dreamhost as being spam, because their filters weren't understanding that it was people forwarding their own e-mail.

    Though that does seem like a Google problem that became your problem. And I do wonder if they could've found another way.

    I forget their reasoning for getting rid of catch-all addresses. Though, for my use case, where I have probably thousands of e-mail addresses, at this point, getting rid of catch-all addresses is directly equivalent to getting rid of e-mail service.

    I mean, I could theoretically do it a different way; it's just that it'd require a massive amount of work and/or giving up a large amount of functionality.

    But I think my use case was uncommon enough that they were okay with ending it.

    Interesting. I've never had any complaints except for the odd email
    about high memory usage when I was running a photo gallery and it was doing a lot of rendering/thumbnail generation. I'm on a shared server, though.

    Ah, yeah. I'd get, "and we restarted your server" messages, from that. When I said that 300megs wasn't enough for anything, it's probably enough for a relatively-static Wordpress install, with nothing else on the server.

    But if I'm getting a VPS, that seems... weak. And kinda pointless to have that, without any sort of sudo access, than just going the shared route.

    Though, with the upgrade next month, it would be on a different plan, on a different server, and more memory, and about the same cost.

    I got grandfathered in at $11/month for a shared plan, it's mostly
    worth it because I can spin up a wordpress site in a couple of minutes
    -- and I'm not looking forward to moving my "permanent" sites.

    I _guess_ they haven't raised the price in 7 years or something, other than that memory usage probably went up, so having a server that does something other than constantly reboot wound up costing more, regardless.

    So $15/month for the restricted VPS (and access to a shared SQL server), plus $5/month for each additional 100mb of memory. Which does not seem competitive, at this point. The new plan would be a gig of memory, 25gigs max storage, for $20/month.

    I think I was getting something fairly similar at Vultr for $6/month, with root access.

    But, yeah, moving those "permanent" sites is a _pain_. I guess that's why Docker and Kubernetes are as popular as they are. Well, part of the reason why.

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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to deon on Sun Aug 20 00:13:49 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: deon to DaveW on Sat Aug 19 2023 09:06 pm

    I'm a fan of restic, been using it for a couple of years now. It only backs up changed files, as well as compressing and encrypting those backups to a target - where that target can be a drive, another machine running restic, or an S3 target. (There are probably a couple of other options there too).

    I use the S3 target (using minio on the QNAP running TrueNas), as well as to another drive. So I can restore back to a point in time depending on how many days I leave in the respository.


    It also supports multiple OS'es, so it backs up my windows, mac, pi's and linux guests.


    You can also fuse mount backups, so it appears as a mount point - I havent used that (only for the lack of needing it).

    Since I use docker extensively, I use docker labels + a cron script to backup individual containers (and pausing them during the backup), or to dump the database when a container is a DB.

    Its saved me a couple of times...
    I use Docker a lot also. it is running on an Ubuntu Server within Proxmox and i do the Proxmox image backup for those. I actually have containers running on my QNAP that i think need a backup. lol There is a backup feature in the QNAP container app but it is manually done. I think Portainer can back them up also. I am not a linux expert but i am learning. :) I usually do many backups from within each container. the service that is running usually has a quick way of backing up settings.

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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to fusion on Sun Aug 20 09:53:29 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: fusion to Arelor on Thu Aug 17 2023 06:31 pm

    On 17 Aug 2023, Arelor said the following...

    Slackware is quite good as a presonal server or workstation, but their release engineering does suck so much.

    so you don't like Slackware. you don't have to hide it.

    there's an endless parade of people who say all the exact same things you sa over and over. they stop using Slackware and they go away. and Slackware per

    it's funny cause most of the posts i see amount to screaming "i'm lazy!" or


    I have been a SlackBuilds contributor for a good while and I also have some Linux Magazine articles praising Slackware's strengths.

    The point is you can like and use a distribution without being a blind zealot who can't see its issues too.

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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to Nightfox on Sun Aug 20 09:57:20 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Nightfox to Arelor on Thu Aug 17 2023 03:55 pm

    I'm not sure if I've seen an example of someone making a newer computer run fast system.

    My main workstation dates from the begining of the Windows 7 era and runs an Operating System with ATROCIOUS I/O.

    My mother got a new generation laptop with more RAM than some of my production servers for her job. It ran blazing bast the first day. The second day she installed all the software for working and now the thing is about as responsive as mine.

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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to candycane on Sun Aug 20 10:03:29 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: candycane to Arelor on Thu Aug 17 2023 09:58 pm

    Oh, so the distro's based on stability like Debian? Sounds pretty neat, I mi

    Stability is certainly a goal. Since the distribution has less components than Debian, it usually ships with non outdated software on release.

    Then they take 5 years to make a new release, at which point the Stable release gets a bit outdated :-) But since you get security updates for the Stable branch all through its lifecycle, it is not a problen unless you do need new features.

    A lot of people seem to jump to the development (Current) branch of Slackware if they take too long to release a new Stable. Current is like Debian testing: it works for most people.

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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to Arelor on Sun Aug 20 17:16:06 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Arelor to candycane on Sun Aug 20 2023 10:03 am

    Stability is certainly a goal. Since the distribution has less components than Debian, it usually ships with non outdated software on release.

    Very cool, I'll check it out.

    candycane

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to esc on Sun Aug 20 17:49:55 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: esc to Gamgee on Thu Aug 17 2023 09:34 am

    Thanks a lot for the helpful reply!

    My pleasure! Glad I was able to be of service. Cheers.

    Following up to our previous conversation about Lenovo/System76... Well, I was drooling excessively while looking at that System76 website, and finally the wife felt sorry for me and told me to proceed. ;-)

    Ordered the "Serval WS" laptop today. Got the 15.6" screen, with Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU (8Gb), with 13th-gen Intel i9 CPU (24 cores @ 5.4Ghz), 32GB RAM, and a 2TB gen4 NVME SSD. It's got USB 3.2, USB-C, 2.5Gbit Eth, HDMI, mini-DP, etc ports. By far the most powerful computer I've ever bought.

    Hope to have it in 10 days or so. I blame you for this, BTW. :-)

    Cheers!
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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to Bucko on Mon Aug 21 11:46:46 2023
    Hi Bucko,

    On Friday August 18 2023, Bucko said to Vorlon:

    Good luck... I did read up on the backup server, but prefer to stick
    to how I'm doing things. Plus why change something that's working...
    It was setup before the backup server was released. I can say the same

    I will play around with it, if it backs up my Linux VM's with no issues, (Active Backup For Business doesn't like Debian 12) I will give it a
    shot, if it is something I don't want to pursue, I just delete the VM..
    LOL

    I'm sure it will do the backup's fine with no issues...

    We all have different requirements, and wants in a backup system.


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    Stephen

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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to DaveW on Mon Aug 21 11:49:04 2023
    Hi Dave,

    On Friday August 18 2023, Davew said to Vorlon:

    Ok. Just thought I'd put it out there, that they can be kept running
    during the backup.

    I may give it a try with the Windows VMs. I am ignorant to the fine
    [...]
    old dlink NAS (bought in 2004). i would like to transfer that job to the new server. Data redundancy is priority as i do not trust QNAP's
    security fully.

    If your new server has hardware virtulation support, then one option could be to pass the hd controller (ie: a LSI sata/sas card) through to a VM running either trunas or nas4free... Then make a ZFS raid mirror from the drives...
    It will give you more controll than a dedicate nas box ever will.



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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Gamgee on Mon Aug 21 01:38:35 2023
    Following up to our previous conversation about Lenovo/System76...
    Well, I was drooling excessively while looking at that System76 website, and finally the wife felt sorry for me and told me to proceed. ;-)

    Awesome! And those specs are nasty, this is gonna be a great computer.

    What OS are you planning to run? Are you going to do gaming stuff?

    Let me know how it goes! I'm typing this from my System76 Oryx Pro 10 as we speak :P It runs Baldur's Gate 3 and Grand Theft Auto V well, which is really all I need hehe. Oh, and the Civilization games as well...

    I'm sure you'll be pleased. Congrats on the acquisition :)

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to Vorlon on Mon Aug 21 06:58:30 2023
    On 21 Aug 2023, Vorlon said the following...

    Hi Bucko,

    I'm sure it will do the backup's fine with no issues...

    We all have different requirements, and wants in a backup system.


    Very true... :)

    Al

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to esc on Mon Aug 21 07:27:00 2023
    esc wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Following up to our previous conversation about Lenovo/System76...
    Well, I was drooling excessively while looking at that System76 website, and finally the wife felt sorry for me and told me to proceed. ;-)

    Awesome! And those specs are nasty, this is gonna be a great
    computer.

    What OS are you planning to run? Are you going to do gaming
    stuff?

    Let me know how it goes! I'm typing this from my System76 Oryx
    Pro 10 as we speak :P It runs Baldur's Gate 3 and Grand Theft
    Auto V well, which is really all I need hehe. Oh, and the
    Civilization games as well...

    I'm sure you'll be pleased. Congrats on the acquisition :)

    Thanks, and thanks for helping me to look hard at System76. I had heard
    of them in the past but never thought too much about them, but man...

    It'll be running Slackware Linux, no doubt about that. It's pretty much
    all I use, although I have a mini-computer here running MX Linux which I
    like pretty well. I may break down and drop a Windows (7) partition on
    this one for some gaming, as well. Can't wait to get it!



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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to Gamgee on Mon Aug 21 08:55:36 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Gamgee to esc on Mon Aug 21 2023 07:27 am

    It'll be running Slackware Linux, no doubt about that. It's pretty much all I use, although I have a mini-computer here running MX Linux which I

    Do you think it could run on a raspberry pi?

    like pretty well. I may break down and drop a Windows (7) partition on this one for some gaming, as well. Can't wait to get it!

    Win7 is super nostalgic to me, I wish I could find an install disk for it.

    candycane

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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to candycane on Mon Aug 21 09:29:11 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: candycane to Gamgee on Mon Aug 21 2023 08:55 am

    It'll be running Slackware Linux, no doubt about that. It's pretty much all I use, although I have a mini-computer here running MX Linux which

    Do you think it could run on a raspberry pi?

    I used to run Slackware on one of the early Raspberri Pis and it worked fine.

    Slackware has an ARM port still going so it should be doable:

    https://docs.slackware.com/slackwarearm:inst_sa64_bcm2711_rpi4

    Official Slackware ARM site:

    https://arm.slackware.com/

    A quick search finds Slackware ARM installation guide:

    https://sarpi.penthux.net/index.php?p=installer

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to candycane on Mon Aug 21 13:36:00 2023
    candycane wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Gamgee to esc on Mon Aug 21 2023 07:27 am

    It'll be running Slackware Linux, no doubt about that. It's pretty much all I use, although I have a mini-computer here running MX Linux which I

    Do you think it could run on a raspberry pi?

    Slackware? Yes, there is an ARM port of it.


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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Gamgee on Mon Aug 21 14:28:15 2023
    It'll be running Slackware Linux, no doubt about that. It's pretty much all I use, although I have a mini-computer here running MX Linux which I like pretty well. I may break down and drop a Windows (7) partition on this one for some gaming, as well. Can't wait to get it!

    Nice!

    FYI System76 writes their own tools and drivers and things for their OpenFirmware computers. I've had luck with Ubuntu, Pop_OS, and Arch. I haven't tried Slackware but let me know if you need any help with anything.

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  • From esc@21:4/173 to candycane on Mon Aug 21 14:29:00 2023
    Win7 is super nostalgic to me, I wish I could find an install disk for
    it.

    Just google "windows 7 archive.org" and your prayers will be answered :P

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to esc on Mon Aug 21 17:56:00 2023
    esc wrote to Gamgee <=-

    It'll be running Slackware Linux, no doubt about that. It's pretty much all I use, although I have a mini-computer here running MX Linux which I like pretty well. I may break down and drop a Windows (7) partition on this one for some gaming, as well. Can't wait to get it!

    Nice!

    FYI System76 writes their own tools and drivers and things for
    their OpenFirmware computers. I've had luck with Ubuntu, Pop_OS,
    and Arch. I haven't tried Slackware but let me know if you need
    any help with anything.

    Thank you, I will!



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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to Arelor on Mon Aug 21 22:35:56 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Arelor to candycane on Mon Aug 21 2023 09:29 am

    I used to run Slackware on one of the early Raspberri Pis and it worked fine.

    Slackware has an ARM port still going so it should be doable:

    Very cool.

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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Vorlon on Mon Aug 21 22:37:43 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to DaveW on Mon Aug 21 2023 11:49 am

    If your new server has hardware virtulation support, then one option could be to pass the hd controller (ie: a LSI sata/sas card) through to a VM running either trunas or nas4free... Then make a ZFS raid mirror from the drives...
    It will give you more controll than a dedicate nas box ever will.

    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen

    Vorlon,
    Yes.. it has Virtualization support. It is a dell PowerEdge T630. It has hardware Raid with hot swappable drives (i think). Right now i am still waiting for the funds to start buying drives and memory :) I was just on Amazon and saw 14tb drives for less than $120 but i want to go with all SSD drives because of the performance. I may choose to go with a mix.. Run VMs on the SSDs and use HDDs for mass storage. Hopefully in a couple of weeks i will start moving things to it. :) I hear TrueNAS is a great OS to run.

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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to esc on Mon Aug 21 22:43:02 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: esc to candycane on Mon Aug 21 2023 02:29 pm

    Win7 is super nostalgic to me, I wish I could find an install disk
    for it.

    Just google "windows 7 archive.org" and your prayers will be answered :P

    Does it come with keys?

    candycane

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  • From esc@21:4/173 to candycane on Tue Aug 22 00:11:11 2023
    Just google "windows 7 archive.org" and your prayers will be answered

    Does it come with keys?

    You'll find 'em in the comments on the download page.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to candycane on Wed Aug 23 12:42:00 2023
    Does it come with keys?

    You can get by quite satisfactorily without keys for Win7...


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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to DaveW on Wed Aug 23 17:01:13 2023
    Hi Dave,

    On Monday August 21 2023, Davew said to Vorlon:

    If your new server has hardware virtulation support, then one option

    Yes.. it has Virtualization support. It is a dell PowerEdge T630.
    [...]
    a mix.. Run VMs on the SSDs and use HDDs for mass storage. Hopefully in
    a couple of weeks i will start moving things to it. :) I hear TrueNAS is
    a great OS to run.

    VT-x is the actual hardware virtualisation assistance - absolute
    necessary, whereas VT-d allows you direct passthrough of devices,
    such as PCI devices, not essential in PC environments but nice to have
    when running server (vSphere server where you need RAID cards
    passed through directly to the guest etc.).


    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen

    Rocking FSXnet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Spectre on Wed Aug 23 09:28:36 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Spectre to candycane on Wed Aug 23 2023 12:42 pm

    Does it come with keys?

    You can get by quite satisfactorily without keys for Win7...

    I know for Windows 8.1-11, there are certain features disabled and it will nag you, but didn't know that about Windows 7. But hasn't Windows had product activation since Windows XP? I thought if you didn't have a serial number, Windows would report it online to Microsoft. But also, I don't think I'd want to use Windows with those features disabled and nagging to use a product key..

    Nightfox
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  • From candycane@21:4/141 to Nightfox on Wed Aug 23 22:00:01 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Nightfox to Spectre on Wed Aug 23 2023 09:28 am

    nag you, but didn't know that about Windows 7. But hasn't Windows had product activation since Windows XP? I thought if you didn't have a serial

    I thought it was from Win95.

    candycane

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to candycane on Wed Aug 23 19:36:40 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: candycane to Nightfox on Wed Aug 23 2023 10:00 pm

    nag you, but didn't know that about Windows 7. But hasn't Windows had
    product activation since Windows XP? I thought if you didn't have a
    serial

    I thought it was from Win95.

    Nope.. Where'd you hear that? I remember the activation thing being a big deal when Windows XP came out.

    Nightfox
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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Vorlon on Thu Aug 24 00:07:09 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to DaveW on Wed Aug 23 2023 05:01 pm

    VT-x is the actual hardware virtualisation assistance - absolute
    necessary, whereas VT-d allows you direct passthrough of devices,
    such as PCI devices, not essential in PC environments but nice to have
    when running server (vSphere server where you need RAID cards
    passed through directly to the guest etc.).


    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen

    Rocking FSXnet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.
    Vorlon,
    I plan on moving both BBS operating systems over to this server as well as moving a bare metal Windows 10 laptop to a VM on the server. I also plan on setting up a few more Linux servers for testing. I like to crash and burn on new things before i set them up on VM's that i care about because they often have things i care about on them. :) Right now i am trying to determine if my Server 2019 Datacenter license is able to be upgraded to Server 2022 for free. I have heard mixed things. Most likely i will just upgrade and see how it turns out. I am also not sure if the upgrade will benefit me at all. :)

    DaveW
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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Nightfox on Sat Aug 26 17:50:00 2023
    I know for Windows 8.1-11, there are certain features disabled and it will nag you, but didn't know that about Windows 7. But hasn't Windows had

    It only stops you modifying some of the eye candy pretty much, and yes it
    will nag, but only once at boot... after that you're pretty much home free until you reboot.

    Haven't had to reinstall it for a bit, but generally let it do all the
    updates once you've modified it to be able to find and install them, and set some eyecandy you'll be happy with going forward.

    Spec


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to DaveW on Sun Aug 27 10:30:00 2023
    Hi Dave,

    On Thursday August 24 2023, Davew said to Vorlon:

    also plan on setting up a few more Linux servers for testing. I like to crash and burn on new things before i set them up on VM's that i care
    about because they often have things i care about on them. :) Right now

    I hear you... I've attempted to update a Debian 11 system to 12 three times
    now and something always borks the install or fails outright... And yes I'm
    not workin on the production VM, but one of it's restored backups.

    i am trying to determine if my Server 2019 Datacenter license is able to
    be upgraded to Server 2022 for free. I have heard mixed things. Most
    likely i will just upgrade and see how it turns out. I am also not sure
    if the upgrade will benefit me at all. :)

    It should be able to be upgraded.. One thing that's annoying is MS hase made
    it more win10/11 in look.... %-/

    In the past I've blown away the current install, and done a new fresh one...



    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen

    Rocking FSXnet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.

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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Vorlon on Sat Aug 26 21:49:23 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to DaveW on Sun Aug 27 2023 10:30 am

    I hear you... I've attempted to update a Debian 11 system to 12 three times now and something always borks the install or fails outright... And yes I'm not workin on the production VM, but one of it's restored backups.

    I cant count the times i borked some server setup that i was learning. So i just install onto a test VM and once it is working and i can replicate it properly, I do it on a production server. My terms are funny because productions is just some tools i use. It is mostly just a home lab. :)

    It should be able to be upgraded.. One thing that's annoying is MS hase made it more win10/11 in look.... %-/

    Not sure what i did wrong but i setup a VM of Server 2022 and tried to use the license and it didnt work. That is weird because my reading says that it should have worked???? The server so far runs great.. I do have 2 test VMs on it that are very small as i still need to buy storage for it. I only have a single 240gb SATA SSD on it. I plan on filling the other 7 bays with 2tb SATA SSDs and upgrading memory to 384gb. I was also looking into upgrading the CPUs to Xeon 2690 v4 CPUs.. They are cheap on Amazon and Ebay. Right now i have dual 2650s. I am still kind of undecided on whether i want to use Proxmox as my main OS or Server 2019 Datacenter. What are your thoughts??

    In the past I've blown away the current install, and done a new fresh one...



    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen


    Thanks,
    Dave
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Vorlon on Thu Aug 24 09:30:00 2023
    Vorlon wrote to DaveW <=-

    VT-x is the actual hardware virtualisation assistance - absolute necessary, whereas VT-d allows you direct passthrough of devices,
    such as PCI devices, not essential in PC environments but nice to have when running server (vSphere server where you need RAID cards
    passed through directly to the guest etc.).

    Good to know - I was never sure about the difference.



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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to DaveW on Mon Aug 28 10:25:45 2023
    Hi Dave,

    On Saturday August 26 2023, Davew said to Vorlon:

    I cant count the times i borked some server setup that i was learning.
    So i just install onto a test VM and once it is working and i can
    replicate it properly, I do it on a production server. My terms are
    funny because productions is just some tools i use. It is mostly just a home lab. :)

    That's the only way to learn... Break it first and then try to sticky tape
    it back into a working system.


    It should be able to be upgraded.. One thing that's annoying is MS have
    made it more win10/11 in look.... %-/

    Not sure what i did wrong but i setup a VM of Server 2022 and tried to
    use the license and it didnt work. That is weird because my reading says

    I've only done one server 2022 install, and that was early last year. It
    was a brand new machine, so didn't have that issue.

    cheap on Amazon and Ebay. Right now i have dual 2650s. I am still kind
    of undecided on whether i want to use Proxmox as my main OS or Server
    2019 Datacenter. What are your thoughts??

    I'd go with Proxmox. Unless you know a heap of powershell, then you want to learn more linux, so go proxmox.

    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen

    Rocking FSXnet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.

    --- Zeus BBS 1.5
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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195.5 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Aug 28 10:29:47 2023
    Hi Poindexter,

    On Thursday August 24 2023, Poindexter Fortran said to Vorlon:

    VT-x is the actual hardware virtualisation assistance - absolute
    necessary, whereas VT-d allows you direct passthrough of devices, such
    as PCI devices, not essential in PC environments but nice to have when
    running server (vSphere server where you need RAID cards passed
    through directly to the guest etc.).

    Good to know - I was never sure about the difference.

    Don't worry, I still get them mixed up at times.

    What people also get mixxed up is that VT-d needs chipset support as well as support in the CPU. So it's a double hit in those requirements.

    Most recent Intel cpu's have VT-x built in (Even consumer cpu's), but not
    all have VT-d...



    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen

    Rocking FSXnet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.

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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Vorlon on Sun Aug 27 22:32:13 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to DaveW on Mon Aug 28 2023 10:25 am

    I'd go with Proxmox. Unless you know a heap of powershell, then you want to learn more linux, so go proxmox.

    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen
    Vorlon,
    i am far from an expert with PowerShell. When i got my MCSE years ago, it was before Powershell.. I can get by a little bit if needed. I think i am going with Proxmox as soon as I get some storage to put this to use. :)

    DaveW
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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to deon on Mon Aug 28 13:00:23 2023
    NUC?

    Yup, my main server is a NUC. I run ESXi on it - which gives me a web console to it, and makes it easier to run VMs. Proxmox would probably do the job as well, but I've never used it.

    My NUC runs about 6 or so machines, but I have many others defined on there that I've started to try something out...



    This is exactly what I plan to do once I need to refresh my home server...

    ... Live every day as though it were your last. One day, you'll be right

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  • From Vorlon@21:1/196 to DaveW on Tue Aug 29 15:53:16 2023
    Hi Dave,

    On Sunday August 27 2023, Davew said to Vorlon:

    I'd go with Proxmox. Unless you know a heap of powershell, then you want
    to learn more linux, so go proxmox.

    i am far from an expert with PowerShell. When i got my MCSE years
    ago, it was before Powershell.. I can get by a little bit if needed. I think i am going with Proxmox as soon as I get some storage to put this
    to use. :)

    You will be able to get your head around proxmox.. Your curently doing
    things with your limited system now, so it's just easy to transfer... Going with a ms based product means learning from scratch.


    --- Zeus BBS 1.5
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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Vorlon on Thu Aug 31 02:00:38 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to DaveW on Tue Aug 29 2023 03:53 pm

    You will be able to get your head around proxmox.. Your curently doing things with your limited system now, so it's just easy to transfer... Going with a ms based product means learning from scratch.

    Vorlon,
    I am getting familiar with Proxmox. I recently upgraded my current Proxmox Server to version 8. I would like to become more familiar with Proxmox from the terminal though. Right now i am doing almost everything from the GUI. I guess it is finally a first where i can say that I am more comfortable with the Linux solution rather than the Windows solution. HyperV just doesn't impress me now that i use Proxmox. :)

    DaveW
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  • From Vorlon@21:1/196 to DaveW on Tue Sep 5 16:27:01 2023
    Hi Dave,

    On Thursday August 31 2023, Davew said to Vorlon:

    You will be able to get your head around proxmox.. Your curently doing
    things with your limited system now, so it's just easy to transfer...
    Going with a ms based product means learning from scratch.

    I am getting familiar with Proxmox. I recently upgraded my current Proxmox Server to version 8.

    Yeah, upgrading Proxmox is one of the most easy/stable upgrade process's
    I've seen.

    I would like to become more familiar with Proxmox from the terminal though. Right now i am doing almost everything D> from the GUI. I guess it is finally a first where i can say that I am
    more comfortable with the Linux solution rather than the Windows
    solution.

    As it's based on Debian, most things that relate to Debian apply. There are things that need doing in the shell, that the GUI can't do. A lot of them
    are backend related items.


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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Vorlon on Fri Sep 8 22:34:40 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to DaveW on Tue Sep 05 2023 04:27 pm

    Yeah, upgrading Proxmox is one of the most easy/stable upgrade process's I've seen.
    Vorlon,
    Yes.. it went very smooth. I was very nervous though because I never did this and was afraid of breaking everything!!!! Luckily it went very smooth. I know I had to setup some update library for those who do not have a subscription. Overall it was a smooth upgrade.


    As it's based on Debian, most things that relate to Debian apply. There are things that need doing in the shell, that the GUI can't do. A lot of them are backend related items.

    I think that the only part that makes me nervous is when i add drives to my server and expand the volume. I assume that the gpart bootable USB will work on this as it worked on my Ubuntu server. That is the thing i love about tech. There is always something new and exciting to learn.
    The other thing i would love to learn is some javascript code that will work with my SynchroNet BBS. I would love to write a few small things. Just to know that i was able to do it. :)



    DaveW
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  • From Vorlon@21:1/196 to DaveW on Mon Sep 18 10:27:31 2023
    Hi Dave

    On Friday September 08 2023, Davew said to Vorlon:

    Yeah, upgrading Proxmox is one of the most easy/stable upgrade process's
    I've seen.
    Yes.. it went very smooth. I was very nervous though because I
    never did this and was afraid of breaking everything!!!! Luckily it went very smooth. I know I had to setup some update library for those who do
    not have a subscription. Overall it was a smooth upgrade.

    That's just a matter of a apt line... I chnage that right after installing,
    as I'm not using the "enterprise/subscription" system either.

    The other thing i would love to learn is some javascript code that
    will work with my SynchroNet BBS. I would love to write a few small
    things. Just to know that i was able to do it. :)

    I'm in the same boat with reading up on Arexx. But as normal, other ($$ Day job) got in the way... [Updating a few servers to Debian 12, and making sure everything works.]


    --- Zeus BBS 1.5
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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Vorlon on Sun Sep 17 22:44:54 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to DaveW on Mon Sep 18 2023 10:27 am

    That's just a matter of a apt line... I chnage that right after installing, as I'm not using the "enterprise/subscription" system either.
    Vorlon,
    Everything is a learning process. I recently got my Dell PowerEdge dual Xeon up and running on Proxmox 8 and I setup a cluster. I then moved 2 out of 3 of my VM's over to the new server. The Dual Xeon runs them so much better than the makeshift i7 with 12gb of RAM. lol I still use that Proxmox to run my Windows 7 VM that runs a small web server and a BBS game server and my Renegade BBS. As i upgrade the PowerEdge with RAM and SSDs, i will add more to it.
    My day job also gets in the way of my hobby.. I guess the only difference between my job and my hobby is that my hobby allows me to work on the computers that are mine. lol


    DaveW
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  • From Vorlon@21:1/196 to DaveW on Tue Sep 19 10:03:26 2023
    Hi Dave,

    On Sunday September 17 2023, Davew said to Vorlon:

    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to DaveW on Mon Sep 18 2023 10:27 am

    That's just a matter of a apt line... I chnage that right after
    installing,
    as I'm not using the "enterprise/subscription" system either.

    Everything is a learning process. I recently got my Dell PowerEdge
    [...]
    My day job also gets in the way of my hobby.. I guess the only difference between my job and my hobby is that my hobby allows me to
    work on the computers that are mine. lol

    To often day job get's in the way! #-0; But part of my day job is also
    playing around and tinkering with systems.... Ie: Lately has been testing upgrade process from one software version to the next... At the OS level.

    Then there is also tinkering with new options idea's in AmiDeb my Amiga emulation system. ( https://amiga.vk3heg.net )




    --- Zeus BBS 1.5
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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Vorlon on Tue Sep 19 21:59:29 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to DaveW on Tue Sep 19 2023 10:03 am

    To often day job get's in the way! #-0; But part of my day job is also playing around and tinkering with systems.... Ie: Lately has been testing upgrade process from one software version to the next... At the OS level.

    Then there is also tinkering with new options idea's in AmiDeb my Amiga emulation system. ( https://amiga.vk3heg.net )
    Hello,
    I go from place to place and what i work on from day to day can vary greatly. At home, right now i have been going insane over getting SynchroNet working with AmigaNet. I have been going insane because it isn't working and i am not getting any errors.. UGH!!! lol The things i enjoy make me insane sometimes!!! hahahahaha

    DaveW
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  • From Vorlon@21:1/196 to DaveW on Thu Sep 21 10:16:23 2023
    Hi Dave,

    On Tuesday September 19 2023, Davew said to Vorlon:

    At home, right now i have been going insane over getting
    SynchroNet working with AmigaNet. I have been going insane because it
    isn't working and i am not getting any errors.. UGH!!! lol The things i enjoy make me insane sometimes!!! hahahahaha

    You Amiganet messages did escape from your system, and there was even a few replys to them... I would have responded myself, but got beeten to the punch line.

    You should just be able to mirror the fsx/fido settings, but use amiga net address... They are alfter all using the same technology.


    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen

    Rocking FSXnet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.

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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Vorlon on Wed Sep 20 22:54:04 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to DaveW on Thu Sep 21 2023 10:16 am

    You Amiganet messages did escape from your system, and there was even a few replys to them... I would have responded myself, but got beeten to the punch line.

    You should just be able to mirror the fsx/fido settings, but use amiga net address... They are alfter all using the same technology.

    Hello,
    I finally got it working. I was using FSXNet and TQWNet as a template for the setup. There were a few differences that I didnt know about until i figured it out!!. :) A big difference was that there is an internal prefix for FSXNet and TQWNet that can not be used with AmigaNet. Also, I was using the Fido Code to route messages to the groups when i needed to use the internal code. On the other networks I setup, these Items were the same.
    Like my earlier message, it is the fun in figuring these things out. :)


    DaveW
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  • From Vorlon@21:1/196 to DaveW on Sun Sep 24 09:41:09 2023
    Hi Dave,

    On Wednesday September 20 2023, Davew said to Vorlon:

    You should just be able to mirror the fsx/fido settings, but use amiga
    net address... They are alfter all using the same technology.

    I finally got it working. I was using FSXNet and TQWNet as a
    [...]
    groups when i needed to use the internal code. On the other networks I setup, these Items were the same.

    Like my earlier message, it is the fun in figuring these things out.
    :)

    That's the fun thing about this technology! It might be dated, but there are still things to work out. Once you get things going, it's then just a matter
    of keeping things in order and small tweeks to the system.




    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen

    Rocking FSXnet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.

    --- Zeus BBS 1.5
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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Vorlon on Mon Sep 25 22:50:59 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to DaveW on Sun Sep 24 2023 09:41 am

    That's the fun thing about this technology! It might be dated, but there are still things to work out. Once you get things going, it's then just a matter of keeping things in order and small tweeks to the system.




    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen
    Hello,
    Whether it is new tech or old tech, figuring things out and learning is always fun!!!


    DaveW
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  • From Vorlon@21:1/196 to DaveW on Wed Sep 27 10:59:18 2023
    Hi Dave,

    On Monday September 25 2023, Davew said to Vorlon:

    That's the fun thing about this technology! It might be dated, but there
    are still things to work out. Once you get things going, it's then just a
    matter of keeping things in order and small tweeks to the system.

    Hello,
    Whether it is new tech or old tech, figuring things out and
    learning is always fun!!!

    If you break it, you get all the bits that fell on the floor and then it's
    your problem.... %-;

    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen

    Rocking FSXnet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.

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  • From DaveW@21:3/184 to Vorlon on Tue Sep 26 22:54:51 2023
    Re: Re: Intel NUCs
    By: Vorlon to DaveW on Wed Sep 27 2023 10:59 am

    If you break it, you get all the bits that fell on the floor and then it's your problem.... %-;

    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen
    hahahahaha!! I will just vacuum them up!!!! :)


    DaveW
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