@IRJ said in Duplicati Retention Policy, which do YOU choose?:

@JasGot said in Duplicati Retention Policy, which do YOU choose?:

The options are:
Keep all backups
Delete Backups older than
Keep a Specific number of backups
Smart backup retention
Custom

Which do you use and why? I am interested in your choice and why you choose it.

Generally NO longer than legally required. Unless the legal requirement is something really lax. You generally dont want to keep data for longer than 7 years in any circumstance where there is no legal requirement, because you can become legally obligated to share data in a court case or something of that sort.

Exactly. Desired retention is more like 6 months. Only legal requirements make us go longer.

@Pete-S said in What is the fascination of Solaris OS ?:

Sun did a few other notable things besides Solaris, such as Java.

Yeah, Oracle wasn't the reason Solaris was well known and good. More likely the reason it is dead.
https://meshedinsights.com/2017/09/03/oracle-finally-killed-sun/

Yeah, Solaris was good in spite of Oracle. And Oracle was only around for one release. The first several decades of Solaris and SunOS were all under Sun. Oracle only killed it off, without Oracle, it would still be an amazing OS today.

@jt1001001 said in going with 3rd party Dell support vs Dell ProSupport?:

We used Park Place for years without issue and only switched because Reliant gave us better pricing that Park Place could not match. We were happy with Park Place and so far have been happy with Reliant. Our extended coverages come up again in March so we will do the head-to-head battle again and see who comes out better.

This is good to know as we'll have some back end equip that will go EOL so I'll at least feel more comfortable about reaching out to both orgs.

@JaredBusch said in DNS Help ...:

@EddieJennings said in DNS Help ...:

@JaredBusch said in DNS Help ...:

@Dashrender said in DNS Help ...:

@JaredBusch said in DNS Help ...:

PTR records are handled by the ISP.

They are not something that should ever result in a domain name like this. but at some point in history, people always tried to contact their ISP to have PTR updated to thier mail server DNS name.

it's part of anti-spamming.

No, it is not.

This kind of thing might be what Dash is thinking of.
https://www.altn.com/Support/KnowledgeBase/KnowledgeBaseResults/?Number=KBA-01904

While not explicitly a tool for anti-spam, I remember an MDaemon installation I inherited have reverse lookups enabled.

NO, old guides used to claim that you needed to setup PTR for on site Exchange to make sure you had not SPAM issues. I know what he is talking about. Jus tthat it has never been fact, no matter what people used to say.

I'm with Jared on this. Yes, historically it was common to do this thing but it was a myth. It's just one of those things that people repeated a lot but had no technical reasoning behind it. People generally don't understand DNS and so DNS becomes one of those magic black boxes and once someone made up that PTR could have something to do with SPAM people ran with it. But it was never part of a spam blocking or reduction mechanism, it was just a random, foolish technical mistake that people made thinking that it might have something to do with something else that they didn't understand.

I think I may have found a quicker/more clean means of doing this with just

Get-ChildItem -Path "Drive-Letter" -Recurse -Force

It prints everything out to the console or to a file for review, than you just have to read it.

@Dashrender said in Backup strategy for customer data?:

@scottalanmiller said in Backup strategy for customer data?:

@Pete-S said in Backup strategy for customer data?:

Bit error is 1 in 10^19 bits (enterprise HDDs are 1 in 10^15). That's actually 10,000 times better than HDDs. And 30 years of archival properties.

yeah, the tech behind LTO8 is freaking fantastic. And unlike HDD where research is stagnating, tape keeps advancing.

Would you really call it stagnating? They are basically at the atomic level already...

That's the primary cause of the stagnation. They are really struggling to keep moving forward with advances. That's exactly what stagnation means.

@JaredBusch said in Skyetel tenant functionality:

Well, the month rolled, and so I now have a report.

The tenant report is awesomely detailed for those that actually care about sending something on to a client.

In my use case, the client just needed location specific break out, so I only care about the totals. But OMFG the awesomeness of the numbers....

Great work on this part @Skyetel

Thanks @JaredBusch We're really proud of this!

@G-I-Jones said in Funky Exchange OWA Issue:

I figured it out. In IIS>Default Web Site>SSL Settings>Client certificates was checked to Require. I moved it to ignore, and viola.

That's weird usually no one has that checked by default.

Typo in the port, we found it.

@Danp said in Mocking API Endpoints with Go:

I know that Postman provides the ability to perform this type of API testing. Has anyone tried this feature?

I'm sure it does. The problem there though is if you're running in a pipeline you'd have to somehow get Postman downloaded, set up, and configured automatically to test against it. This is just in the standard library so you can unit test in your pipeline automatically.

@scottalanmiller said in Why Microsoft Wants You to Think Windows 7 Can't Be Upgraded:

@Carnival-Boy said in Why Microsoft Wants You to Think Windows 7 Can't Be Upgraded:

Desktop OS is important, because you need a desktop to access the cloud - but it's only important in as much as it is used to sell Azure.

But you can access Azure just as well (or better in many cases) from Ubuntu, ChromeOS, Fedora, macOS, etc.

Of course, but you can push users towards Azure by controlling what users see on the desktop - think pre-installing Skype or Edge or the Microsoft App Store. Google do the same for their OS. Amazon are probably the most explicit in practically giving away Amazon Fires just to push Amazon services.

@scottalanmiller
This reminds me of the article at Ars Technica:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/how-insurance-companies-are-fueling-a-rise-in-ransomware-attacks/

Best way to run Chrome on 2016 RDS.

Use this as a reference.

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/187202?hl=en

Use enterprise edition and configure admx with GPO

Set
Disk Cache Directory
Roaming Profiles Directory
User Data Directory
Setting up Legacy Browsers and Plugin
Turning off Hardware accel and other settings for performance.

Just read that 💫 and configure what policies you need. Took me a day to set up but works smooth.

Sounds like this is a case where beyond some disruption, having a split backup strategy would have made the difference. It's becoming more and more a standard strategy to have an online (to the cloud) backup done using one tool, but a local backup done using another so that there are ways to recover if a backup strategy is compromised.

But it also shows that these weren't air gapped backups but were able to be compromised alone with the live data. How does someone like PerCSoft not have tape backup, virtual tape, or other WORM mechanism to protect all of that health data?

That it was hit with ransomware also means that there was a HIPAA compromise that needs to be disclosed because a third party got access to every bit of customer data! All of those dentists are stuck contacting all of their customers to let them know that someone got access to the data.

@scottalanmiller said in RAID5 on SSD in 2019?:

@Obsolesce said in RAID5 on SSD in 2019?:

@scottalanmiller said in RAID5 on SSD in 2019?:

As long as this is for capacity this is viable, if this is for performance, you'll find that no hardware controller is likely to be able to handle that many SSDs at full speed.

How much data can, for example, a PERC H840 move? All I can find is that it's 12 Gbps PER PORT, with 8GB NV Cache, seems like it'd easily handle 10x SSDs in a RAID 10.

You have to buy one and test it. No one releases those numbers 🙂

xByte has done that in the past.

Sure, if you buy me the server and drives, I'll get the PERC and test it! :face_without_mouth:

@scottalanmiller said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:

@bnrstnr said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:

One thing I didn't like about teams is that you have to install a client to attend the meeting, which is the same for Webex and just about every other major solution if I remember correctly.

Zoho doesn't have a client either. All web based. Same as Rocket and NextCloud.

They all use the WebRTC components in modern browsers.

@Dashrender said in Dell Hot Swap 2.5" drive in place of 3.5":

@manxam said in Dell Hot Swap 2.5" drive in place of 3.5":

It's not uncommon at all. Your other drives are most likely to fail during a rebuild due to the added stress of continual access during this process.
That's what makes something like RAID 5 on spinning rust so scary.

If all of the drives in the array are of similar age and from the same batch, I'd plan on swapping them all within the next while as each successive rebuild takes its toll on the remaining drives.

Agreed - and double check those backups.

I have doubled and tripled checked. Did a couple restores today with single files and also entire VM's. (Currently using Veeam)

@Dashrender said in Skyetel defenses tripped:

I have to hand to it to @Skyetel - it's outside of Support hours but they got the notice of my post and came in and responded.

Very awesome!

I hope that at some point Skyetel can hire some people to be in the support desk 24/7 (even if from home) so there is less stress on @Skyetel.

But for now I'll take the win in being part of MangoLassi!

Thanks @Dashrender for the nice words :).

FWIW - we do have on call 24/7, but only for emergency tickets from current customers. But I'm happy that I was able to get you setup!

@DarienA said in Azure - Timings converting unmanaged disk to managed disk?:

Trying to get a sense of the timing involved in converting an Azure VM using unmanaged disks to manage disks.

As a test I converted one small vm that just had an OS disk and that took about 10 to 20 minutes. The VM was down during the entire process.

We have some much larger machines with multiple 1TB secondary disks and I'm wondering just how much the time scales up, if all the disks are converted at the same time or done one at a time.

Anyone have any experience with the process?

I do not use VMs on Azure, so I have no idea. I use services, but not full VMs.