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Build Domain Controller DC-03, Part Three

Build Domain Controller DC-03, Part Three

I don't have much time to dedicate to this again today, but I was able to uninstall the DHCP and DNS services on DC-01.

Build Domain Controller DC-03, Part Two

Build Domain Controller DC-03, Part Two

On DC-01 and DC-02 I disable the DHCP failover configuration. Next I make a backup of the DHCP configuration on DC-01 and copy the backup file to DC-03. I then restore the backup from DC-01 on DC-03. Then I authorized DC-03 and de-authorized DC-01. I test to verify that DC-03

Build Domain Controller DC-03

Build Domain Controller DC-03

Continuing from yesterday's debacle Veeam Backup of DC-01 Failed. With DC-01's failure I've migrated FSMO roles from DC-01 to DC-02 and then started working on bringing DC-03 online but brought all my virtual machines on HV-03 to a dead stop. I was confused and

Veeam Backup of DC-01 Failed

Veeam Backup of DC-01 Failed

So I was checking on some backups I have running in Veeam Community Edition and noticed the backups for DC-01 have been failing for the past week with the following error: 12/6/2022 1:09:34 PM :: Processing DC-01 Error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check). Failed to read data

PhotoPrism, Part Four

PhotoPrism, Part Four

When I go to use PhotoPrism today I'm having trouble logging in with the password I saved in my password manager. Strange. After checking online I find in PhotoPrism's documentation a command to help resolve this issue: * docker exec -ti <container_name> photoprism passwd

Paperless-NGX, Part Four

Paperless-NGX, Part Four

Configure Operating System Well I have been lax and should probably get a few more things configured on this server. Steps performed on PAPERLESS-01 * sudo apt install ufw * ufw is already the newest version (0.36.1-4build1) * sudo ufw allow 22 * sudo ufw allow 8000 * sudo ufw enable * Firewall is

PhotoPrism, Part Three

PhotoPrism, Part Three

I realized today that I never updated the network share from the test location to the permanent location. I'm going to get that fixed quickly. Steps performed on PHOTOPRISM-01 * sudo nano /etc/fstab //10.10.10.XXX/Data/Pictures/PhotoPrism /mnt/pictures cifs rw,noserverino,credentials=/home/david/

Paperless-NGX, Part Three

Paperless-NGX, Part Three

Configure Paperless-NGX So I left the other day with the container crashing after changing the container volumes. After playing with it for a while today I realize it is a permission issue. * sudo chown 1000:1000 /mnt/paperless This didn't work, what a bummer. It ends up looking

Paperless-NGX, Part Two

Paperless-NGX, Part Two

Configure Paperless-NGX I have been playing with Paperless-NGX a bunch over the last couple of weeks and it is absolutely wonderful! The one trouble I've been having is that it doesn't scan documents if they are already in my documents folder or if they are added

Paperless-NGX

I came across Paperless and wish I had found this years and years ago. Document management with built in OCR capabilities? Shut the front door! Man I need to get this running right now! It looks like a current fork that is still being worked on is called Paperless-NGX so

SnipeIT, Part Two

SnipeIT, Part Two

Install SnipeIT Coming back to this today, I imagine I'll have everything finished up quickly. Steps performed on SNIPE-01 * nano /home/david/snipe-it/.env * cd /home/david/snipe-it * curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php * php composer.phar update * Errors out on me * php composer.phar update --ignore-platform-req=

SnipeIT

I was in a position of needing to move a company's inventory management from an Excel spreadsheet to....well anything. Everyone points to SnipeIT being the gold standard for inventory management but I had never been in a situation where SnipeIT was being utilized. I usually had to

PhotoPrism, Part Two

PhotoPrism, Part Two

Well when I take a look today the indexing has either stopped or crashed overnight. When I try to log into the webpage it is not accepting my password. Interesting. Steps performed from PHOTOPRISM-01 * sudo docker-compose ps This shows the database is down with Exit 139. I'm guessing

PhotoPrism

One thing that I have been interested in a while is a way to manage my photos myself. Amazon and Google have nice solutions but it scares me what they're doing with our personal photographs. It's also always abundantly clear that they offer all this free

NGINX Reverse Proxy, Part Five

NGINX Reverse Proxy, Part Five

So with NGINX working it's time to back it up. Should be simple enough to do, I just need to grab some configuration files and put them all together. So I'll work up a draft in Github named nginx-proxy-backup.sh: #!/bin/bash ### Backup script for Nginx

NGINX Reverse Proxy, Part Four

NGINX Reverse Proxy, Part Four

Well I've played around with this a little bit here and there over the past few days. Never really got to put more than a few minutes here and there to look at it. I tried to get sub directories to work but did not get far. From

NGINX Reverse Proxy, Part Three

NGINX Reverse Proxy, Part Three

So today I tried specifying the cert's location but that did not work either. I was led to a blog talking about how it doesn't actually matter what cert you use, you just have to point to a valid cert. That doesn't seem like

NGINX Reverse Proxy, Part Two

NGINX Reverse Proxy, Part Two

Coming back to this today. I was thinking that I should not have to have the proxy go back out to the internet and through an extra open port. I need to fix this. I made the following change to the config file: server { listen 443; server_name monica.domain.

NGINX Reverse Proxy

NGINX Reverse Proxy

So I've spun up a couple of services at this point and I can see the number of open ports exploding if I keep finding cool services to play with. It's probably a good time to set up a reverse proxy. I've heard numerous

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives, Part Four

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives, Part Four

So I decided to go ahead and migrate VM-02 to HV-03. The migration is very quick and easy. So I started running some diagnostics on the hard drives in HV-01. They all come back fine. Weird. What is going on? I ran multiple diagnostics from a few different pieces of

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives, Part Three

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives, Part Three

Well that's surprising. The migration ultimately failed due to it not being able to find one of the files. That seems less than ideal to be honest. Well while I'm checking on things I decide to turn on VM-01. VM-01 fails to start though. "Virtual

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives, Part Two

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives, Part Two

Today I start by opening Windows Admin Center and connect to HV-01. I head to virtual machines and select VM-01. I tell VM-01 to shut down. Then I move VM-01 to the C: temporarily. After VM-01 boots back up I verify it is running properly. I then power down HV-01

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives

So I've run into a problem running a few virtual machines on HV-01. Some background, HV-01 is a consumer grade computer running Hyper-V standalone. It's primary function is to act as a file server via it's primary virtual machine. Then I have a few

Backups!, Part Two

Backups!, Part Two

Well I was able to set up some backup scripts for both of my PI-Hole servers yesterday. I have three more applications to work on backing up right now. Ubiquiti's Unifi, Bookstack, and Monica. I'm going to start with Unifi first. Backup Ubiquiti's Unifi

Backups!

Well now that I have a couple of applications and servers up and running that I am finding useful to keep around I need to back them up. At least the applications data. For the existing Windows servers is my testing lab I have them backing up to the Veeam