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  1. mobycl1ck

    confusion about implementing quota

    Hello, I am a bit confused about some settings about quota in a Linux server.Escuse my noobishness. In all tutorials or documentation, there is a /home in the /etc/fstab and the usrquota and grpquota is added to the mounting point options and then the quota is enabled. Now, in my case i have a...
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    I am doing this wrong? Firewall hardware choice

    Hello STH! Had a failure on my HP T620 Plus who ran pFsense. Ran, until a power brownout bricked the M-Sata SSd and the system refused to recover. To cut the story short, went ahead and installed Opnsense on a Lenovo M720q on which installed the Intel i340 T4 from the HP T620 Plus. Now, the...
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    What backup software for backing up physical Linux servers?

    As the title says, I am interested to learn what solutions do you guys use, being that in homelab or enterprise environment. For the moment, I am using Synology ABB on a test server and it is able to run a scheduled backup with its agent, and recovered the backup succesfully. Yet, I have some...
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    Server without obvious backup solution?

    Hello STH I was assigned to manage and administer a Linux server, being it a critical part of the infrastructure.The server was initially managed by an external firm, and now the server is on prem and it came that way. Now, after initial assessment, I came to realize that the server does not...
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    ESXi+Ubuntu VLAN confusion

    Hello STH forum, I was given a task was to create a Ubuntu server virtualized under VSpere with a custom configuration. Requirements: From VSphere, senior admin added 4 NICs to the machine and told me to configure the NICs and their VLANs, as follows: NIC1 10.100.100.24/24 - VLAN 400 NIC2...
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    Asrock Deskmini300 as a server

    Hello Had the Deskmini running as my main HTPC with 3400G, 16 GB RAM 3200 and a 500GB NVMe SSD. Bought the Nvidia Shield Pro and now I am thinking about using the Deskmini 300 as an unRAID server or whatever solution comes handy. Already upgraded the CPU to the 4650G, and upgraded the BIOS, the...
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    AWS backup solution suggestion

    Hello fellow forum dwelers. I need a backup software solution able to fit the following criteria: WebGUI Server-client for all major SO, including AWS Integration with LDAP, if possible. And price, if it is free, all the better. What i tried: Managed to install Bacula on a Debian server, then...
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    future planning for pFsense and 10Gb

    Hello folks, I would like to hear your opinions on this matter. I have a HP T620 Plus with a Intel Quad NIC running pFsense. Have a 300 Mbs FTTH connection, the fiber to copper conversion is made by a small Nokia ONTG-010-P. So far, so good. Set up pFsense just to have a solid connection, only...
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    Hello! Need some guidance!

    First and foremost, I want to thank you all for offering such guides and wealth of information, I lurked for some time and I decided to register and ask some questions here. For now, I have a decision to make, I wanted a second opinion, as @Patrick so excitedly presented the TinyMiniMicro...