scaleway rclone s3 example

If you are searching for an alternative for Backblaze Backup. You can try rclone with s3 storage from Scaleway.

In these Blogpost you can find out how to install and configure it. But how to use it? I have some example for you.

https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/tutorials/encrypt-s3-data-rclone/

https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/storage/object/api-cli/installing-rclone/

Thats for a Windows machine, on Linux only other path K:test = /home/ubuntu/myfiles

rclone sync --progress K:\test Scaleway:allmybackup

If you want to store your data directly in to the GLACIER storage you can use

rclone sync --progress --s3-storage-class=GLACIER K:\test Scaleway:allmybackup

or you can configre rclone directly to use GLACIER directy without define storage class

Simple example if you are using encryption with rclone

rclone sync --progress K:\test crypt:

Now we have more options for bandwith usage

Attention rclone is using Megabyte not Megabit 1M are 8Mbit

rclone sync --progress --log-file=rclone_log.txt --bwlimit "06:00,2M 23:00,4M" K:\test crypt:

windows start service without admin rights

You need not really administrator rights to restart a service.

You can find here many options for that

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4436558/start-stop-a-windows-service-from-a-non-administrator-user-account

In this post on stackoverflow I found a very simple solution to do that.

This little tool are called Service Security Editor and works very well. You have a nice GUI to configure all access rights very comfortable. This is the best choice

https://www.coretechnologies.com/products/ServiceSecurityEditor/

short how to

choose your user

define what this user should be able to

now this user can only start and stop

Create ISO file with powershell

Create a file with name createiso.ps1 and fill this code into it.

function New-IsoFile 
{  
  <# .Synopsis Creates a new .iso file .Description The New-IsoFile cmdlet creates a new .iso file containing content from chosen folders .Example New-IsoFile "c:\tools","c:Downloads\utils" This command creates a .iso file in $env:temp folder (default location) that contains c:\tools and c:\downloads\utils folders. The folders themselves are included at the root of the .iso image. .Example New-IsoFile -FromClipboard -Verbose Before running this command, select and copy (Ctrl-C) files/folders in Explorer first. .Example dir c:\WinPE | New-IsoFile -Path c:\temp\WinPE.iso -BootFile "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Windows Kits\10\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools\amd64\Oscdimg\efisys.bin" -Media DVDPLUSR -Title "WinPE" This command creates a bootable .iso file containing the content from c:\WinPE folder, but the folder itself isn't included. Boot file etfsboot.com can be found in Windows ADK. Refer to IMAPI_MEDIA_PHYSICAL_TYPE enumeration for possible media types: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366217(v=vs.85).aspx .Notes NAME: New-IsoFile AUTHOR: Chris Wu LASTEDIT: 03/23/2016 14:46:50 #> 
   
  [CmdletBinding(DefaultParameterSetName='Source')]Param( 
    [parameter(Position=1,Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true, ParameterSetName='Source')]$Source,  
    [parameter(Position=2)][string]$Path = "$env:temp\$((Get-Date).ToString('yyyyMMdd-HHmmss.ffff')).iso",  
    [ValidateScript({Test-Path -LiteralPath $_ -PathType Leaf})][string]$BootFile = $null, 
    [ValidateSet('CDR','CDRW','DVDRAM','DVDPLUSR','DVDPLUSRW','DVDPLUSR_DUALLAYER','DVDDASHR','DVDDASHRW','DVDDASHR_DUALLAYER','DISK','DVDPLUSRW_DUALLAYER','BDR','BDRE')][string] $Media = 'DVDPLUSRW_DUALLAYER', 
    [string]$Title = (Get-Date).ToString("yyyyMMdd-HHmmss.ffff"),  
    [switch]$Force, 
    [parameter(ParameterSetName='Clipboard')][switch]$FromClipboard 
  ) 
  
  Begin {  
    ($cp = new-object System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters).CompilerOptions = '/unsafe' 
    if (!('ISOFile' -as [type])) {  
      Add-Type -CompilerParameters $cp -TypeDefinition @'
public class ISOFile  
{ 
  public unsafe static void Create(string Path, object Stream, int BlockSize, int TotalBlocks)  
  {  
    int bytes = 0;  
    byte[] buf = new byte[BlockSize];  
    var ptr = (System.IntPtr)(&bytes);  
    var o = System.IO.File.OpenWrite(Path);  
    var i = Stream as System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes.IStream;  
   
    if (o != null) { 
      while (TotalBlocks-- > 0) {  
        i.Read(buf, BlockSize, ptr); o.Write(buf, 0, bytes);  
      }  
      o.Flush(); o.Close();  
    } 
  } 
}  
'@  
    } 
   
    if ($BootFile) { 
      if('BDR','BDRE' -contains $Media) { Write-Warning "Bootable image doesn't seem to work with media type $Media" } 
      ($Stream = New-Object -ComObject ADODB.Stream -Property @{Type=1}).Open()  # adFileTypeBinary 
      $Stream.LoadFromFile((Get-Item -LiteralPath $BootFile).Fullname) 
      ($Boot = New-Object -ComObject IMAPI2FS.BootOptions).AssignBootImage($Stream) 
    } 
  
    $MediaType = @('UNKNOWN','CDROM','CDR','CDRW','DVDROM','DVDRAM','DVDPLUSR','DVDPLUSRW','DVDPLUSR_DUALLAYER','DVDDASHR','DVDDASHRW','DVDDASHR_DUALLAYER','DISK','DVDPLUSRW_DUALLAYER','HDDVDROM','HDDVDR','HDDVDRAM','BDROM','BDR','BDRE') 
  
    Write-Verbose -Message "Selected media type is $Media with value $($MediaType.IndexOf($Media))"
    ($Image = New-Object -com IMAPI2FS.MsftFileSystemImage -Property @{VolumeName=$Title}).ChooseImageDefaultsForMediaType($MediaType.IndexOf($Media)) 
   
    if (!($Target = New-Item -Path $Path -ItemType File -Force:$Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) { Write-Error -Message "Cannot create file $Path. Use -Force parameter to overwrite if the target file already exists."; break } 
  }  
  
  Process { 
    if($FromClipboard) { 
      if($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Major -lt 5) { Write-Error -Message 'The -FromClipboard parameter is only supported on PowerShell v5 or higher'; break } 
      $Source = Get-Clipboard -Format FileDropList 
    } 
  
    foreach($item in $Source) { 
      if($item -isnot [System.IO.FileInfo] -and $item -isnot [System.IO.DirectoryInfo]) { 
        $item = Get-Item -LiteralPath $item
      } 
  
      if($item) { 
        Write-Verbose -Message "Adding item to the target image: $($item.FullName)"
        try { $Image.Root.AddTree($item.FullName, $true) } catch { Write-Error -Message ($_.Exception.Message.Trim() + ' Try a different media type.') } 
      } 
    } 
  } 
  
  End {  
    if ($Boot) { $Image.BootImageOptions=$Boot }  
    $Result = $Image.CreateResultImage()  
    [ISOFile]::Create($Target.FullName,$Result.ImageStream,$Result.BlockSize,$Result.TotalBlocks) 
    Write-Verbose -Message "Target image ($($Target.FullName)) has been created"
    $Target
  } 
} 

After file creation, you must import this module to your open powershell session.

Import-Module .\createiso.ps1

Now you can define on powershell your source folder

$source_dir = "Z:\isofilel\"

We can create our ISO file
get-childitem "$source_dir" | New-ISOFile -path C:\iso\mydmz.iso

Confluence alternative

What a incredible e-mail from Atlassian, cloud first. Not everyone wants to use the cloud. I worked with Confluence and Jira over ten years now. Time for alternative Wikis. I am a little bit sad about the cloud first strategy. Confluence and Jira are pretty cool tools.
Time for alternative Wiki´s

https://wiki.js.org/

This Wiki very close to Confluence. But one feature is missing

https://wiki.js.org/feedback/p/multi-sites

Multi Sites

BlueSpice based on MediaWiki but it have a lot more features and a good Editor.

bluespice.com

Multi Sites only available in the enterprise version.

Also look at tiki.org but is more than a wiki

For Jira alternative

I found

http://www.tuleap.org or https://www.openproject.org

MultiPoint Services Role in Windows Server 2016

UseIT | Roman Levchenko

multipoint_services_windows_server_2016_10

Introduction

MultiPoint Server (MPS) is a technology and solution based on Windows Server and Remote Desktop Services. MPS was originally built for use in the classrooms and educational institutions and It allows you to provide low-cost sharing between MPS and user stations. User stations can be consist of only monitor, keyboard, mouse (zero clients) and be connected to MPS through USB (usb hubs), video cables or through LAN (RDP-over-LAN, if clients are not zero. for example, laptops, thin clients and etc..).  MPS uses some of the RDS services (by default): RD Session Host and RD Licensing Server.

First version of MPS was released in February, 2010 . In MPS 2010 you can connect stations and host only through USB hubs and video ports.

Ability to use LAN between user stations and MPS was added only to the next version – MPS 2011 released in March, 2011.

Some of the main features of…

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Xen vhd to vmdk

Converting from a Xen Server to a VMWARE Server isn´t easy. Normal you can use VMWARE Converter it works fine with Windows. Linux loves Clonezilla but only with one disk. My situation is a Linux vm with multiple disk with LVM.

What we need:

  • QEMU disk image utility for Windows

https://cloudbase.it/qemu-img-windows/

  • enough disk space
  • winscp
  • putty

 

Shutdown your vm. Login to your xen machine and figure out which disk you need.

See  “How to find the disk associated to a VM from XenServer CLI”
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX217612

xe vm-disk-list vm=test_lvm

xen_list_disk.png

copy the vhd files that you found with vm-disk-list to your migration machine.

 

I have used the powershell to convert my two vhd disk

.\qemu-img.exe convert -f vpc 9438a581-017f-4069-b7cd-09b5e330954c.vhd -O vmdk test_lvm_sda1.vmdk -p

2018-09-27 13_18_28-pc-678 - Remotedesktopverbindung.png

It takes a few minute. After migration copy your new vmdk file to your vmware storage.

Attach the disk to your vm and choose IDE and not SCSI. Note the sequence from your old xen disk. Should be in the same order

fire it up 🙂

 

 

 

vmware converter permission to perform this operation was denied

User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode

This affects how UAR works and can block remote local admin connections.
This can be changed in Local Computer Policy | Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Local Policies | Security Options
Set it to Disabled, requires a reboot

 

2018-09-07 13_16_33-XenCenter.png

 

found here

https://www.jonathanmedd.net/2013/12/vmware-converter-permission-to-perform-this-operation-was-denied.html