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TubeArchivist, Part Five

TubeArchivist, Part Five

Automate Server Reboots I realized after a recent fileserver reboot that I need to have it also tell TUBEARCHIVIST-01 to reboot to help keep the mounts fresh. Steps performed on FILESERVER * Created c:\Scripts\tubearchivist.ps1 # Command to reboot TUBEARCHIVIST-01 ssh -t -i c:\Users\Administrator.DOMAIN\.ssh\tubearchivist david@

Fileserver Offline, Part Two

Fileserver Offline, Part Two

I woke up extra early today, my mind racing about this hard drive. If you remember from yesterday my operating system drive for HV-01 failed yesterday. I was able to replace it with a nice brand new SSD and reinstall the operating system. However one of the eight data drives

Fileserver Offline

Fileserver Offline

I came home late and my little one told me he could not reach the fileserver. I go downstairs to take a look and as I get close to HV-01 I can hear a hard drive spinning like mad. It is super loud. A quick check confirms that the HV-01

TubeArchivist, Part Three

TubeArchivist, Part Three

Configure TubeArchivist I'm finally able to come back to this and try to figure out why I was getting Error (5) input/output as an error message when mounting a network drive. I tried a number of different suggestions I found online but none of them were able

Build Domain Controller DC-03, Part Four

Build Domain Controller DC-03, Part Four

This project got away from me through the holidays. I've had DC-01 powered off for the last month so I'm pretty sure it is more than safe to decommission it completely and finish this project. Configure DHCP Failover Between DC-03 and DC-02 * On DC-03 I open

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

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!

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

Setting Up R730, Part Two

Setting Up R730, Part Two

Well with my OS on a trusty thumb drive I plug it into the server and came back to my desktop. I finish the Lifecycle wizard and the server reboots. It boots right up from the thumb drive and begins the Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 installation. I create a 75GB