Any Experiences with SOS Online Backup?
-
@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
Just as a network drive in Windows.
He means CIFS. Anyone who doesn't know what shares are and protocols are is using SMB/CIFS. There is no way he's installed NFS and is using that.
Which is why I'd said I was pretty sure it was CIFS...
-
@thanksaj we are just shocked that you aren't completely confident what protocols you are using for filesharing on your home network.
-
@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj we are just shocked that you aren't completely confident what protocols you are using for filesharing on your home network.
I was about 98% sure it was CIFS. I honestly couldn't care less what protocol it uses, as long as it works.
-
I mean, let's be honest. If it works, you have no stability or performance issues, and you never actually are selecting the protocol (as in, there's no option to use CIFS or something else when mapping a drive in Windows...it just maps), does it really matter? It might be cool to know but I always assumed it was CIFS and just didn't give it too much thought.
-
@thanksaj said:
I mean, let's be honest. If it works, you have no stability or performance issues, and you never actually are selecting the protocol (as in, there's no option to use CIFS or something else when mapping a drive in Windows...it just maps), does it really matter? It might be cool to know but I always assumed it was CIFS and just didn't give it too much thought.
Did you really just say this to IT people? Yes, understanding how your computer works always matters.
-
@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
I mean, let's be honest. If it works, you have no stability or performance issues, and you never actually are selecting the protocol (as in, there's no option to use CIFS or something else when mapping a drive in Windows...it just maps), does it really matter? It might be cool to know but I always assumed it was CIFS and just didn't give it too much thought.
Did you really just say this to IT people? Yes, understanding how your computer works always matters.
Yes I did. Understanding how a computer works is important. But when I have no option to select one protocol over another, unless I'm having an issue and need to figure out a work around, knowing is purely informational and presents minimal benefits. Now if I had options and choosing one over the other meant certain advantages and disadvantages, then that would be different. But that's not the case.
-
@thanksaj said:
Yes I did. Understanding how a computer works is important. But when I have no option to select one protocol over another, unless I'm having an issue and need to figure out a work around, knowing is purely informational and presents minimal benefits. Now if I had options and choosing one over the other meant certain advantages and disadvantages, then that would be different. But that's not the case.
You just weren't aware of your options. If you don't know that you are using SMB, how do you determine when you need to work on SMB permissions or NTFS ACLs, for example?
Understanding computer basics is the underpinnings of IT. How do you troubleshoot issues for people if you don't know what's going on under the hood?
-
@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
Yes I did. Understanding how a computer works is important. But when I have no option to select one protocol over another, unless I'm having an issue and need to figure out a work around, knowing is purely informational and presents minimal benefits. Now if I had options and choosing one over the other meant certain advantages and disadvantages, then that would be different. But that's not the case.
You just weren't aware of your options. If you don't know that you are using SMB, how do you determine when you need to work on SMB permissions or NTFS ACLs, for example?
Understanding computer basics is the underpinnings of IT. How do you troubleshoot issues for people if you don't know what's going on under the hood?
Again, if something like that had been a concern, it would have been a different matter. But for my situation it wasn't.
-
@thanksaj said:
Again, if something like that had been a concern, it would have been a different matter. But for my situation it wasn't.
You've missed the point. We're just shocked that you treat the technology like a normal home user rather than like an IT person who would want to know what is being used, how it works, what it is....
Especially since you are interested in backing it up and already need to know "what" in order to determine "how."
-
Career advice: never blow off "knowing things" as being a waste. Especially when we are talking about foundational knowledge one would expect from even the most nominal power user. This is stuff that home users need to know to use consumer NAS devices. This is stuff that affects pretty much every IT person. It's way more common to need to understand SMB than Windows itself.
The mentality that "you only know things you need to know" is not a healthy one for IT. Sure, if you want to stay where you are, that's fine, if you don't need that knowledge today you simply don't need it. But if you want to grow in the field, you need to take an interest in the field and actively want to learn new things. SMB is extremely basic knowledge. There is a reason that both Microsoft and Red Hat exams require it. This is more important than Active Directory. It impacts far more than 99% of businesses and a very large number of home users.
-
@scottalanmiller said:
Career advice: never blow off "knowing things" as being a waste. Especially when we are talking about foundational knowledge one would expect from even the most nominal power user. This is stuff that home users need to know to use consumer NAS devices. This is stuff that affects pretty much every IT person. It's way more common to need to understand SMB than Windows itself.
The mentality that "you only know things you need to know" is not a healthy one for IT. Sure, if you want to stay where you are, that's fine, if you don't need that knowledge today you simply don't need it. But if you want to grow in the field, you need to take an interest in the field and actively want to learn new things. SMB is extremely basic knowledge. There is a reason that both Microsoft and Red Hat exams require it. This is more important than Active Directory. It impacts far more than 99% of businesses and a very large number of home users.
Oh I don't have that. I'm the guy who wants to know everything about everything. My point was I hadn't done research on it because I was pretty sure it was CIFS, considering that's pretty much standard for Windows, and since I'd never had a reason to dig into it for any reason, I just hadn't dug into it. I had other projects that were more directly in front of me. That was my point. It's not that I don't care, I just hadn't had a reason to up til now.
-
I would put some time into it. It's very foundational and you'll be using it all the time. Even if you were on Mac or Linux systems, you still use SMB all of the time.
-
@scottalanmiller said:
I would put some time into it. It's very foundational and you'll be using it all the time. Even if you were on Mac or Linux systems, you still use SMB all of the time.
Ok.
-
If you play with Samba on Linux, you'll probably learn more about SMB than you will using Windows because all of the assumptions are stripped away.
-
@scottalanmiller said:
If you play with Samba on Linux, you'll probably learn more about SMB than you will using Windows because all of the assumptions are stripped away.
I have in the past. It's just been awhile.
-
@thanksaj so did you manage to find a solution for backup?
-
Did you try any out to see how they work?
-
Haven't done anything yet.
-
So just as a follow up, I had the owncloud sync client running "as a service". So my files were indeed syncing via the built in application instead of a external protocol.
-
Cool.
