Should LLDP messages be forwarded through simple switch (one that does not support 802.1d)? I have two switches: D-link DGS-1008D and TP-link TL-SF1008D and the first one forwards them and the second one seems to forward some of them (but not others). Messages are sent to 01-80-C2-00-00-0E MAC address.
Recently I moved my site from DSL line to Azure VM and just yesterday one of the users reported that the site has been marked as unsafe ("Reputation-Viruses") by ScanSafe. Do you know whether it is possible to somehow verify this information, get detailed report that would indicate the reason why my site has been listed and delist it (after correcting the issue)?
How do I actualy use netcat to transfer files over network? IIRC something like that nc -l -p 12345 > destfile(on the receiving end) + dd if=/dev/sourcedevice| nc ipaddress 12345(on the sending end) used to work. That is when the transfer was complete the sending process finished , terminated the tcp connection so the receiving process did quit as well. But now, the sending process just hangs (as if it could transfer anything after EOF) so the receiving process hangs as well. This is totally non scriptable.
I also tried -c on the sending end but that couses the destfile to be of random size (almost the expected size). Or maybe there is some reliable alternative to netcat?
It seems to me that tar on windows does not understand directory symbolic links - it treats them as an ordinary folders which in my case leads to infinite recursion. 7-zip has the same problem. Are you aware of any free tool that can simply backup directory with symlinks pointing to parent directory and then restore it on another machine? Both machines are Windows machines: Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012.
I am running a mailserver with maildir storage. This means that quite a lot of files are created and I have just run out of inodes. AFAIK there is no magic command to increase number of inodes on ext# filesystem (or am I wrong?) so I have to backup and restore the whole filesystem. But how do I do that? I tried creating another partition and do:
dump -f - -0 /vservers/mail | restore rf - -u -v
While this seems to work it takes much longer than I am willing to wait (it managed to create 500 empty directories in 2 hours before I stopped the process; strace showed that restore was calling lots of useless lseeks). Is there any other method to copy complete filesystem (including sockets, device files, owners, permissions, acls, etc)? Additional info: source fs is ext3, destination was ext4, filesystems are on lvm, the fs I want to move is root fs for vserver.