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@ScottPack Back in my HP-UX days, we would break mirrors to conduct lengthy tape backup, then rejoin.
Oh god... I'm old.
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@ewwhite it's not how any reasonable person would do it. No quiescing, your array is degraded
Dan
Dan
I've actually used that method to clone a server - but only if it's got a valid backup
@MDMarra Oh yeah, and not while hot.
@Dan so why not clone from the backup?
Dan
Dan
@DennisKaarsemaker Quicker and easier most of the time
then your backups suck :)
Dan
Dan
13:02
What, you know of a backup system that's quicker than a RAID1 rebuild with local disks?
HP's Split-Mirror functionality - (now with MOAR rollback)
@ewwhite Seriously? You managed HP-UX? I remember installing tintin++ on an HP-UX system and playing MUDs all day.
Dan
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@DennisKaarsemaker Besides, as I have to often explain here - they're rarely my systems or my backups. I just work with what there is :)
@ScottPack I've had HPUX, SCO, AIX, NeXT, SGI... Ultrix....
That all sounds pretty terrible
13:03
(no Solaris until ZFS)
@ewwhite heh, irix boxen were pretty sweet
>_< So can one not use install to copy a directory tree?
in their day... hence my love for XFS
also, fully mouse navigable open firmware 'bioses'
13:26
Hello guys... where can I see a list of questions that are within my subscribed tags? Is there a place for this? Or should I just view posts with the tags?
@DennisKaarsemaker So I'm trying to use %{_install} to copy a directory tree into the buildroot. Either the man page is completely fucking batshit worthless, or it doesn't support that option. What's the "preferred" method after that? Just a plain old copy and fixup the perms?
I've never heard of an %{_install} macro. It's %{__install} in my specfiles. and that's just an alias for /usr/bin/install, so you can just use that. But install can't copy entire directories afaik, just create directories and copy single files.
@DennisKaarsemaker >_< whatever
That's what I thought. This app has a complicated enough directory structure that I didn't want to have to fuck with doing each directory individually.
rsync :)
or give the app itself a proper make install :)
It has a make install. It just puts files in ridiculous places that make no goddamn sense.
13:35
hehe
%{__mv} :)
My install has a macro for cp but not for rsync.
Yeah, that's what I was going to resort to doing.
(also, why the F&*(#@ does redhat make macros out of everything...)
I wasn't sure if there was a "proper" way when install doesn't work.
It kind of makes sense from a portability perspective.
That way your specs would work on systems with both /bin/cp and /usr/bin/cp
It just happens that the RPM specs are only used on RedHat and derivatives which all use /bin/cp
or just use cp and rely on $PATH being sane...
Not you're just being silly.
13:41
'elo
aaaaaaaargh I forgot to create a custom alarm in vsphere for vm's with snapshots active
one of the datastores are eaten up :(
@ScottPack: couldn't you just give it a prefix that makes sense when configuring it?
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Q: MySQL query extremely slow after server restart

ZoonI am managing a very large database for a custom application I wrote to keep track of visitors. The DB server was rebooted for the first time in over a year - not even to install any updates, but simply because we needed to move the hardware. From running a query within 1 second it now takes se...

Think DBA would want this question?
@ewwhite are you really recommending RDX in good faith?
Or just for the rep?
Guys I don't know what to do.
So many certifications out there. So little money.
13:46
lol
@mossy I'm taking my Network+ Friday...
@mossy: there's two ways to look at it, what do you want to learn, or what do you need
@NathanC Good luck!
@mossy What do you want to do. Systems or Network?
(though, I've mostly been doing what're in effect free undergrad modules both for boredom, and amusingly, stress relief)
13:48
Thanks. My work is actually paying for the time spent on the exam which is a bonus. :)
Morning
I'm going for my bachelors in information technology / security. (When I grad. I take my CCNA) But I honestly don't want anything more than my CCNA.

I really want a solid Linux administration foundation.
Then do RHCA/RHCE
@mossy: just curious, what does that focus on?
I'm doing something reasonably similar, and its mostly management and forensics centric.
@MDMarra I own RDX drives.
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Q: Are RDX removable disks a good replacement for LTO tape?

ewwhiteOver a period of three weeks, I experienced six complete failures of LTO-1 and LTO-2 tape drives at client sites. Some had failed mechanisms. Others lost the ability to write reliably. These were HP Ultrium 232, 448 and 460 drives. Most of these units were deployed between 2006 and 2008, so the t...

I sell RDX drives to my clients.
13:51
@JourneymanGeek It's really focused on Network security. There are basic windows / linux administration classes along the way, but that ends fast.
@MDMarra Yeah that's what I've been looking at for awhile. Was hoping I could start with something else first.
$$$$
(and heh, I'm pretty seriously considering doing an online cs degree in my spare time, assuming I can afford it)
@mossy LPIC exams. Not sure how much weight they carry though.
none
13:54
Linux+ loljk
@mossy Why? Entry level certs aren't worth a whole lot
@mossy My major was IT Management which touched on quite a broad range of subjects...but nothing teaches better than getting your hands dirty
@NathanC: yeah
@cole lpi level one: worthless. two: meh, ok. three: getting somewhere.
@JourneymanGeek If only. It does weird things like installing 5 config files directly into etc instead of it's own directory. Installing all libraries into /lib no matter your arch. It also installs some into prefix/share, but then others into prefix/usr/share.
13:55
@MDMarra I question my knowledge often. Would make me feel better. lol
@JourneymanGeek The whole installation process is borked up.
@ScottPack: in that case ^&#^&*^&* DEVELOPERS.
@ScottPack which app is this and how do I avoid it?
@JourneymanGeek Precisely. Academics no less.
@mossy If money's tight, you should go for the big value items :D
13:55
@DennisKaarsemaker Bro.
@mossy I do it all the time too. You never know what you know
@ScottPack yanno, that explains it all.
@JourneymanGeek Yeah...yeah it really does.
@JourneymanGeek Also. cmake
I can't remember offhand why thats a particularly horrible thing
It's just annoying. The only way for me to build a file manifest for installation was to actually run make install and be thankful it prints out to the screen every file it installed.
@mossy What's the problem?
Are you working now?
14:01
fucking taleo
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lol
who is? ;p
not only is their "webapp" a flash appplication
@DennisKaarsemaker heh
it can't search or filter
and it's "sort by date" sorts dates alphabetically!
14:02
@DennisKaarsemaker Go do it in Safari.
wtf is taleo
@DennisKaarsemaker wtf
@MDMarra applicant tracking platform
recruitment webapp
@ewwhite Yeah I am. I'm just trying to decide on what certs to get, and the order. So I came in here crying.
14:03
Oh
we have thousands of candidates in there, and it has no search
It and icims appear to be the most popular.
and I can't find the bugger...
I turned down a job from Kenexa a while ago. They're another SaaS recruitment/tracking/HR company
@mossy get the certs that are within your skill and training potential. And the ones your employer will pay for.
14:03
It was like walking into a brainwashing
@DennisKaarsemaker Don't worry, it's just as terrible for the applicants.
@ScottPack ya we use icims here.
@cole It's only slightly less terrible than taleo.
I had the infra for hrmdirect at my last job... no, we were literally hosting it...
Weee starting off the day with LDAP shit.
Well, I actually started off my day with an 8AM meeting about cloud shit
14:05
@cole (&(objectclass=user)(memberof=fuckthisshit))
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I had an 8AM meeting about my butt!
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CN=fuckthisshit,OU=I,OU=Quit,DC=You,DC=Suck
How am I to know what Authentication Scope you need!? You don't even know who's going to use this product.
@RyanRies lulz.
Authentication Filter: e.g ,on using MS AD user id to authenticate, so the value for the filter is going to be (&(sAMAccountName={uid})(objectclass=user)). Is this format correct? Pretty sure that filter is backwards?
CN=which,OU=moron,OU=thought,OU=this,DC=is,DC=good,DC=syntax
@RyanRies Uh dude. Are you really using a made up TLD? I don't think .suck is a valid gTLD (yet)
14:10
But pretty sure authnetication wise you need to use DN
I'll register it
But without looking AT THE GOD DAMN PRODUCT TO SEE HOW TO CONFIGURE IT I DONT KNOW
@MDMarra I see a great opportunity for a business there. .sucks is bound to be popular :)
@cole I don't think the order of the filters matter when they're being &'ded
I'm trying to programmatically create a new GPO, define a setting within that GPO, and then link it to the domain and it's FREAKING DIFFICULT
14:11
@RyanRies freak
@MDMarra ah, but I'd think you'd use DN for authentication and not a filter?
You can use a filter for that in most cases
Ah ok
@MDMarra it may matter for performance
Anything that comes back as a match will work
14:12
@DennisKaarsemaker lolperformance
Dan
Dan
@RyanRies Yep - I can't remember why but I mooted creating a GPO dynamically once and it's not simple
OH: OMG - everything in Australia that doesn't kill you will get you high!
@markhenderson is this true?
@DennisKaarsemaker Incidentally, thanks for validating that writing SPECs is still just as painful and archaic as it always has been. It's refreshing to know that it's no easier now than it was 17 years ago.
@ScottPack it's a bit easier now. vim can do more tricks for you :)
@DennisKaarsemaker I've seen some of those neato ones that autofill the template for you and such, yes that's nice.
14:21
I can't brain today.
If the search base and scope are both DC=<blah>,DC=<blahblah>,DC=com - LDAP will be able to search the whole directory, no?
hm? scope isn't a DN. It's 'single' or 'subtree'
@DennisKaarsemaker I'm trying to figure out how to let them search all of AD
He asked: Authentication Scope: how deep to go below the Authentication Search Base?. In LDAP world this is called subtree.
Fucking hate LDAP
Oh I think I understand now, they want subtree.
yes, that's what he said :)
Yeah but I've never been asked that before
I understand now you can specify "base", "one level" or "subtree"
or 'children', apparently (I just re-read the manpage for ldapsearch)
14:29
Learning all the things lately. Yesterday I learned a shit ton about KMS from @MDMarra [email protected], today it's LDAP.
@DennisKaarsemaker I'm pretty sure "children" == "one level"
@MathiasR.Jessen not sure
Or in plain english: all direct descendants
   -s {base|one|sub|children}
          Specify  the scope of the search to be one of base, one, sub, or
          children to specify a base object, one-level, subtree, or  chil-
          dren search.  The default is sub.  Note: children scope requires
          LDAPv3 subordinate feature extension.
Ahh, subordinate referrals, interesting
Now even I'm learning all the things
@cole this is great :D
14:33
the things you can learn from a manpage, eh :)
The thing you can learn from reading!
*things - dammit
> such anger. much wow.
I want to add this to so many questions sometimes :)
Doge <3
14:46
@MDMarra @ewwhite @NathanC - I've edited that question about hot swap backups, breaking out his actual questions. The answers seem to be more along the opinion line of what people recommend rather than just black/white answers to his question. So feel free to edit your answer to reflect answers to his actual questions if you'd like. Not that you have to... :)
I fucking love racoon's error messages:
Jan 8 09:54:50 defender racoon: [x.x.x.x] ERROR: error message: '1 H ?![> y/ = s l <{ 1 ? T ^ J $e/ '.`
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@TheCleaner What's up with all the hate on serverfault.com/a/565842/105072 ? It's a terrible idea, but it's the only non-opinion answer and totally valid - am I missing something?
Would it help matters if questions over 12 months old with accepted answers were automatically protected.
@TomO'Connor It would probably filter out the worst n00b noise, but it might also be an inconvience
15:03
@TomO'Connor I've proposed that on mSO before... I think it's at -15 right now.
@ChrisS I wish SE sites had a configurable workflow engine type thing so we could autonomously test these things out
I suppose, but I don't have any real gripes with the way things work right now.
Noobs already have to ignore a lot of warning messages when posting
If there's one thing Noob are good at, it's ignoring directions.
If there's two things they're good at, the second is doing exactly what those directions told them not to do.
@MikeyB you mean you don't understand that?
@ChrisS Yeah, but if we set the protect threshold higher, to say 100 rep..
then they'd be forbidden from posting n00bish answers.
until we'd proven by the quality of their questions if they were a turd or not.
They could decrease the threshold to 2... All the drive-by problems are 1-rep users.
15:08
@RyanRies For my own amusement and a possible blog post, I'm playing around with unlikely ways to break AD DS. Any suggestions as to how I can cause a lot of fragmentation in ntds.dit?
Also, SF's stats are in the Toilet... Right now we've got the least community participation in years...
@MathiasR.Jessen With the same script you'll use to simulate RID exhaustion? :)
@MathiasR.Jessen Yep like @MDMarra says, you just need a script to automatically create and delete a shitload of objects.
@ChrisS how do you mean ?
Morning gents
15:13
@MDMarra RID exhaustion is not interesting in this scenario, I'm taking it to the next level to see what happens when the DNT index counter wraps at 2^31 :-)
@DennisKaarsemaker It's probably valid code, I just can't tell which language.
@Iain Questions asked, new users, votes... every stat is either the lowest it's ever been, or close thereto.
@MathiasR.Jessen ಠ_ಠ
@RyanRies Yeah I thought about that, but shouldn't I introduce some randomness of sorts?
The only measures that are up are pageviews (unique and repeat are both up).
15:14
@ChrisS Where do you see stats like that? Or is it only available to insiders?
SF as a resource for the pro is pretty much dead
@MDMarra I have a bet with a Microsoft employee on this, he says it's not possible to reach so high a value that you MUST install a new replica/DC - I'm trying to win and/or scare him
@RyanRies Insiders only - I can discuss generalizations, but not hard numbers.
@Iain Thankfully we have chat, where we can mull the great mysteries of our day, like what's in the giant Amazon box.
@MathiasR.Jessen With a sufficiently clever script you can have randomness
15:16
@MDMarra yep
@ChrisS Can you discuss anything else that's hard?
@RyanRies Hmmm... I'll go home and try to be a little clever then
I hope it's a shitload of smaller Amazon boxes
@MDMarra Nissan Versa.
Well, no need for chat anymore. See ya!
15:16
@ScottPack The wife wouldn't like that. ;]
It was in the Huffington Post so it has to be true.
@MathiasR.Jessen For instance, you could store all your OUs in an array, and randomly pick OUs in which to create the users, use an algorithm to randomly generate their names, etc.
That sounds complicated. Just put everything in one OU
@RyanRies It's a single Monster cable.
@RyanRies Assuming that NTDS is efficient in creating and storing new objects, I think I might have to delete objects in random order (with regards to the order in which they where created)... Lab time
15:20
@MathiasR.Jessen I don't know to be honest...I agree that most of the answers are opinions...which is why I offered the big players here in chat a chance to revise their answers.
@ChrisS I'm surprised that new users is down as there seems to be loads of them on the front page (although I don't recall the definition of new users) and do your stats take in the big dip for the holiday period - our questions/day is currently down to just 70 because of that
@MathiasR.Jessen - that's why my comment was centered around the fact that the question lends towards opinions.
" Honestly, it's all a matter of what you like and can RESTORE from easily. If it works for you, and you and your company are fine with it...go with whatever you'd like. Use pigeons carrying printouts daily offsite for all it matters, as long as it works for you. "
Jet Blue is a decent little database system
Or ESE, I should say.
@Iain December was the lowest in ~2 years. November was the worst in 1.5 years.
15:25
@RyanRies Agreed, at least when it comes to low-footprint efficiency. Before diving into AD DS, I did a lot of Exchange 2007/2010 maintenance and firefighting. Exchange owes a lot of its merits to ESE :)
Yeah, I'm glad they never went to SQL.
Not that there's anything wrong with MS SQL, just that it's overkill for such a job
Exchange has gotten really good at self healing
it's nearly at the point where you're guaranteed to restore from backup if eseutil can't fix it straight away
@ChrisS In truth I think SF is way bigger than it should be and that is largely due to the large number of amateurs that swing by and ask crappy questions. I doubt that our target market is really much bigger than NE's. Unfortunately we have been discovered by the hoards and the rest is erm shit
@TheCleaner indeed. my coworkers have an irrational hatred of tape backups. It annoys me. tape is perfect for long-term offline storage of huge amounts of data.
The crappy questions keep the real pros away ... meh we've been round this loads
15:30
@Iain maybe that's true...
@Iain Yeah, that's definitely true.
Yay...infinite loop in a .NET web app caused IIS to freak
I'm still thinking of setting up a clonesite to handle shopping questions, with affiliate links.
Even I hardly answer questions anymore... I get sick of the people who can't be bothered to read man pages or whatever the relevant resource
I don't know databases enough but I wonder if they could somehow have Exchange databases not hold the actual mailboxes but just the metadata and Exchange data. Then keep each mailbox in its own database file. Similar to other email systems.
It's true what Iain says.. we've gotten too big.. the questions are ranked high on google and therefore we get the horde of indian IT tech workers
15:32
@pauska who mostly skip over from SO
@TheCleaner In my head it seems like a nice idea for troubleshooting and so on, but terrible for performance
they've done a lot of work to queue up async writes against the echange store so that it can sequentially write/read to big files.. it's what makes exchange 2010/2013 run like hell on NL-SAS
@TomO'Connor I'd be willing to assist or at least help moderate. I'm not a web programmer, but I'd be willing to help in whatever capacity. I think a good one is lacking in the web. Something like Amazon Reviews for IT pros would be very helpful.
@pauska TBH, I stopped caring after we went to O365. Let MS run whatever tech they want on the back end as long as my email works. The whole distributed mailboxes across multiple, redundant DAGs that are geo-dispersed for a single exchange org on O365 is straight up voodoo anyway.
@ChrisS Most of the problems I come across nowadays aren't answered by SF questions, but by U&L.
@TheCleaner I think this SaaS is probably a good start shapado.com/plans
and a domain for it :P
dunno what to call it ;p
shopfault.com :P
15:37
:P
Joel might kill me for that.
qandaishard.com
letsgoshopping.com
@TomO'Connor Time for a kickstarter?
If I had the time to follow up on it .
Time to build a team, first.
kickit later
And I think that both of the last two questions I've answered got migrated offsite anyway.
I propose discourse for the "platform" discourse.org =P
@NathanC Not a forum.
15:42
@TomO'Connor Well...what's SE? It's a glorified forum with voting
You post, people reply.
@NathanC HERETIC!!!
ITproReviews.com
PickAdamnServer.com
IsMyVARscrewingMeOver.com
willITwork.com
OhGodMyServerIsBurning.com
we shouldn't let @ewwhite in though, he'll just be bitching about supermicro and vmware :)
@TheCleaner WillItBike.com
15:45
@ScottPack :) Wesley can have a sub-forum.
"howdoiresign.com"
NobodyEverGotFiredforBuying.com
hngg why do I have a headache.
@cole 'cause you can't drink alcohol anymore
@DennisKaarsemaker :(
15:46
@cole It's probably your vestigial lady parts.
@ScottPack :( :(
RateMyITquote.com
@NathanC ServerFire.com?
Probably lack of sleep + clenching my teeth.
@TheCleaner AmIHotSwappableOrNot.com
15:48
@DennisKaarsemaker My name is Scott Pack and I approve of and/or endorse this product and/or message.
ahahaha
@DennisKaarsemaker lol...took me a quick second...but that's awesome. Reminds me of when I heard about "RateMyRack" and thought it was about server cabinets.
If you want us to give this thing a go, @ message me a domain by UTC 00:00 09/01/2014 and I'll buy it.
@TheCleaner oh, that's classic :)
.com .net or similar only.
or .io maybe.
but they're expensive.
15:50
goatserver.cx
@TomO'Connor I think a .io is $40?
Cheer.io
Or.io
Eie.io
I get good deals on .com
eie.io is tempting, actually.
15:52
Old O'Connor needed a server farm....eie.io. And on that server farm he needed some Cisco gear...eie.io.
@TomO'Connor that'd probably be a good name
what does "Domain reserved" even mean?!
Dan
Dan
@TomO'Connor IANA reserved?
Oooh...I think I've found one...and it is available.
15:54
Because farm animals?
and a good play on words
@TomO'Connor - ITisallabout.us (product reviews from real IT folks)
Yeah, i'm not keen o nthat.
15:56
lol...screw you both! I'm reserving that bastard myself then
:)
time to go home
I'll sell it to the Olsen Twins later.
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