I think that this decision has to come down to... is this a career change that you want? If this is what you WANT to do, then it is a huge opportunity to build your resume and experience. If this is not something that you want, this could suck big time. it's more about you and your goals than about career options.

Remember that this is backup. So if the backup system fails you have options like...

Taking a new backup from the live systems. Offlining the limping array and taking a full backup of it before attempting a restore Doing a backup/restore rather than an array recovery

All of these things make RAID 6's risks minimal. This isn't the only copy of anything, it's a backup. And it is not subject to availability risks (at least not in the way that live data is) so things that cause availability issues are not significant.

@BRRABill said in Accessing a Linux Server via SSH:

@scottalanmiller said

The default of what is to copy, paste and hit return?

PUTTY.

Be default when you right click something to copy, it copies it and pastes it and then hits return.

I guess perhaps just highlighting it copies it? I like the Windows method.

No it does not. I thought maybe you were thinking this but did not want to imply it. That's a misunderstanding of what is happening. It only does that IF your Windows environment and your actions are copying a carriage return into the clipboard (which Windows does by default.) This has nothing to do with PuTTY and is all about your Windows desktop AND it only does this if YOU make it happen, it does not do that for the rest of us. We don't copy the carriage return into the clipboard unless we want it. Windows makes this easy to control as a feature, but it is an invisible feature of the Windows environment so if you are not a Windows power user, you might not be aware that there is an interface to it that you are misusing.

PuTTY simply does what Windows tells it to do, PuTTY has no default behaviour like you are imagining.

@scottalanmiller said in Light Gaming Desktop:

@BBigford said in Light Gaming Desktop:

@scottalanmiller said in Light Gaming Desktop:

@travisdh1 said in Light Gaming Desktop:

@Kelly said in Light Gaming Desktop:

In that price range it is hard to build for better or less than OEMs. I've had good experiences with iBuyPower machines, but there are so many options. A refurb might be a good direction to go too.

Yeah, it's hard to beat iBuyPower or CyberPower most of the time. A couple weeks ago I got some friends kid a system from CyberPower, I don't think they've seen him since we got it plugged in.

We found a super cheap CyberPower that might be the way that she goes.

I.... very much disagree. As a prior boutique builder, there is a lot to be said about pre-built rigs vs. building your own. Has little to do with the experience, or saving money. It's the exact comparison I would use as another thread going on that's based around buying a Synology box or building up a SAM-SD. They both serve pretty much the same function, one just performs a lot better but doesn't have a single point of contact for support.

No one said that SAM-SD doesn't have a single point of contact for support, it certainly can. We only said that a NAS must have a single point of contact for support or it can't be a NAS. That one must have that option does not preclude that the other cannot have it.

Yeah I misunderstood. 😄

But I won't pull this thread off topic in my misunderstanding! Won't do it!

@BBigford said in SAN data transfer - very slow:

So the bottleneck is 1Gb/s and 50MB/s is about half of your theoretical max of around 100-120 MB/s so really, that is not too bad when you take into account the TCP Windowing overhead and latency and such. Could it go faster? Maybe. Reasonably? Not much.

Can you do a rough break down on the math of how you got the theoretical, please? So what are my options, short of waiting +48 hours, or having the data physically shipped to me?

Well 1GigE is your network bottleneck from the description, everything faster than that doesn't have a direct connection so aren't much of a factor (other than allowing the TCP Windows to mismatch causing more overhead.) So we start with 1,000 Mb/s.

1,000 / 8 = 125 MB/s (bits to bytes.)

So that is the theoretical max of the link with zero overhead. Rule of thumb is to assume that the actual max is 80% of Ethernet. That is 100MB/s.

So 100MB/s is pretty much the theoretical fastest that you could get over pure GigE without any bridging, switching or other slowing factors.

No consider that you are putting storage protocols onto that which means that you have some bottlenecks, at least from time to time, from the storage system so you likely will not be able to feed that perfectly. Then each conversion from Ethernet to whatever the WAN link is will add overhead in the form of the translation (different window sizes and other efficiency issues.) And then you have to add in the latency of the link - latency causes a throughput reduction when we are talking about a reliable protocol like TCP. This would not be the case for a streaming UDP connection so much, but you can't send storage data in an unreliable, best effort way so that doesn't matter. You are forced to wait for receipt responses.

Put this all together, and cutting your connection in half is normal.

@coliver said in New MailUsers from Account - Office 365:

Resurrecting an old thread.

We ran into this issue again after updating to the most recent version of Azure AD Sync. We needed to set the mailnickname attribute in AD for the mail users to be created again. This was in addition to having the targetAddress declared.

Thanks for following up 🙂

thwr thanks for reference! 😉

Mike, yes, we can do that just fine! it's still recommended to do Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape however because direct iSCSI access for tape can be slow and backups may not fit into backup window. if it's a case VTL is your best friend 😉

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-tape-library

Ping me if you'd have any questions so I could help.

@hobbit666 said in Backup Game Data Android - Kids Tablet:

@IRJ said in Backup Game Data Android - Kids Tablet:

I am a fan of Titanium backup myself.

Yeah but device needs root for that to work.

I am pretty sure you don't need root to do app level backups. I could be wrong.

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@thwr said in Need advice on OS X Server & DAS/NAS:

@scottalanmiller said in Need advice on OS X Server & DAS/NAS:

@travisdh1 said in Need advice on OS X Server & DAS/NAS:

They figured out how to do parity RAID with dis-similar drives. Something ZFS has been doing for how many years before Drobo?

It's not parity with dissimilar exactly, that always works. Always has. It's parity with dissimilar drives while getting maximum usable capacity out of the drives using a horrific mix of RAID levels. It's a terrible thing to do.

Goosebumps, everytime I'm seeing this. The idea is good, but how they made it...

Even the idea isn't good. It's "Oh, people refuse to listen and buy many dissimilar drives... instead of punishing them for this, we'll pretend that this is just fine and screw their reliability and performance because they aren't paying attention anyway and who cares, it isn't our data."

@Grey said in Steam summer sale 2016: June 23 - July 4:

@scottalanmiller 😞 I was laid off a couple weeks ago so no new games until I get a new source of income. I hope you got some good ones that I can play with you later in co-op, maybe Portal 2, for example?

I do have Portal 2 but have never played it. Without a mouse I can't finish Portal 1 😞

@aaronstuder said in Alternatives to LMI:

@JaredBusch Right, but if the user isn't on the computer, why can you just push the agent to the computer with something like PDQ Deploy? That's basically with LMI is doing, more a less.

There is no one time agent to push that the administrator has easy access to. When the user is sent a link to the session, it downloads and the user has to run it.

I am sure I could work around that. But it is not in the design. It would be a hack. LMI has it in the design.

Neat

@aaronstuder said in You know you have been...:

@thwr that's not a DOS prompt 😉

I'm using PowerShell 99% of the time. ps or [WINKEY] -> po is shorter than cmd

@JaredBusch said in NIC teaming on Hyper-V:

Then you make you vSwitch. If you already have your vSwitch setup, make a team with the ports NOT on the vSwitch, move the vSwitch to the team and then add the final NIC to the team.

Not much to add here. SwitchIndependent mode is a big one on Hyper-V. Sure, Windows can easily use LACP and other means, but what if you want to use two or more uplink switches for redundancy? LACP can't handle this and there is just a handful of proprietary protocols that can. SwitchIndependent mode is doing exactly this by "load balancing" VMs and Host traffic between the available links and failover in case something goes south.

This way, like @JaredBusch said above, you can have LACP-like functionality (max single port speed for a single traffic source) over multiple inexpensive switches. In fact, the switch doesn't know anything about that type of teaming, you could even use unmanaged switches (but really, don't do that)

My hosts are running in this mode.

Looks good!

@scottalanmiller said in Using a NAS for backups & Unitrends FREE:

@hobbit666 said in Using a NAS for backups & Unitrends FREE:

The version I got doesn't seem to support XenServer?
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Not at the hypervisor / platform level. You need to work with agents the same as if it was physical. Doesn't work with ESXi Free, either.

ESXi Free version has no backup API's... that's the issue.

@IRJ said in SEO for dummies:

Unix based systems are the king of web servers and case actually matters on these systems.

Not so much these days since sites run CMSs and don't rely on the underlying OS. Wordpress, for example, as I've mentioned, isn't case sensitive, despite the majority of Wordpress sites running on Linux.

@IRJ said in Today i decommissioned an Athlon Xp 2200+ machine I may have built:

@scottalanmiller said in Today i decommissioned an Athlon Xp 2200+ machine I may have built:

@IRJ said in Today i decommissioned an Athlon Xp 2200+ machine I may have built:

@wirestyle22 said in Today i decommissioned an Athlon Xp 2200+ machine I may have built:

@IRJ From what I've seen of the benchmarks, Intel is killing it. There is a market for AMD with budget gaming builds etc though.

I think the Athlon XP processor was the last time AMD actually beat Intel for a brief period of time when you consider overall value.

Oh no. The first several generations of Opterons were the real winners. The XP wasn't even in the same class. it was the Opteron that put AMD in the lead for several years. AMD owned the decade of 2000.

Athlon XP Processors weren't top of the line, but they offered more VALUE for typical PCs.

And the Opteron offered even more comparative value. Nothing came close.

@Ambarishrh said in Asterisk PBX so many choices, where to begin?:

I would be interested to make calls outside. Here in the UAE they have pretty strict policies on VOIP. I use a voip service called Nymgo with PrivateInternetAccess VPN, but would be great if i can use a provider and try this from the PBX. Not sure if google voice works outside US

Sorry, I keep forgetting about the outside the US thing.