I've been using Duplicati where I need a standalone backup of a thing. Web based management interface makes it super simple to manage.

@scottalanmiller I was considering rolling them back to last night as a last-ditch scenario is all fails since it is on Veeam and I have a Full from last night.

Our go-to solution for VSS problems is to set up a dedicated snapshot volume. Otherwise we were getting timeouts and M$ does ugly things that don't make sense when VSS doesn't work properly.

@smartkid808 said in Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition:

@JaredBusch my bad. They just posted it on SW couple days ago about it, and the blog on the Veeam site is only 2 days old, didn't realize it was here already

Don't be afraid to repost. Hell I've done it before. I just want all the things cross linked whenever possible. Makes it easier to find details in 6 months.

In this case I even mis-remembered where the fuck I read about it. Thanks @dbeato.

@scottalanmiller said in Azure Warm Backup Site:

@IRJ said in Azure Warm Backup Site:

Both places had under 250 employees and had offside data centers.

But had on prem for their primary workloads?

We had a very old core that only supported a few apps and none of them were SaaS at the time

Can you reassign disks between VMs yet?

The hot add disks was a huge pain before. I couldn't believe I wasn't able to do that.

@CCWTech said in Restoring Google Drive Folders Instead of Individual Files:

Unfortunately what they did ended up orphaning the files.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/6008339?hl=en

Ouch

@Pete-S said in “Catastrophic” hack on email provider destroys almost two decades of data:

So if you make a backup to something like Backblaze. Would that be considered an offline backup?

Depends how it is done. It's online, not offline. But it can be airgapped.

@NashBrydges said in Backing up Office 365:

@Dashrender @Jimmy9008 My largest client to use this for their Office 365 backup has 42 mailboxes and it works very well for them. I can't confirm with anything larger than that though.

In theory then it should work well for me. Will test and see. Thanks

@wrx7m said in Why DR Plans are Important and Need to be Tested:

This is a good reason to have more than one credit card from more than one bank.

This isn't just a credit issue though. It's people literally unable to access their own money, not money on credit. More so if people have the money in their checking/savings account to pay their bills why should they have to pay their bills on credit?!

The bank had better pay off any interest if their customers had to use a credit card to pay for anything during this time to get things back to Zero.

So, circling back. How is the backup project going?

In the event now.

@Pete-S said in Redundancy is building a bridge and an identical one immediately next to it:

Regarding evolution we are probably more geared towards surviving external threats than we are towards surviving internal organ failures by old age and a sedentary lifestyle.

Right, almost certainly. Partially because in the big picture, that's the bigger threat. Not in this particular moment in time, although in parts of the world that remains true. But to get to where we are, we have to be geared towards overall survival and can't change the design quickly when the situation suddenly changes.

@JaredBusch said in Crashplan vs Backblaze in 2018:

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@DustinB3403 said in Crashplan vs Backblaze in 2018:

Can I ask why you are protecting user devices though? Generally these have very little on them and through simple policy can everything be saved on your servers or cloud and thus don't need backup.

I would really like to do this. We have onedrive available for all of our users and I was thinking of coming up with some sort of system that just uses their onedrive as the primary source of their homefolder.

That's how I do it but we are using Nextcloud.

All users root folders under their user profile is linked to the actual folders in C:\Users\john.doe\Nextcloud{Desktop, Documents, etc...}. And the data is synced back to the Nextcloud server and that server is backed up.

How do you go about doing that? Editing the location of Desktop, Documents, etc... ?

Use Junction Points. Its like using symbolic links in Linux.

Oh... Duh, lol. Thanks.

I'm just trying to figure out how that would work if you have to do more than a few client machines at a time.

Something like this. It is not ready for prime time, but was my starting point last week when setting up a new desktop.

$User = Read-Host "Enter UserName" Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Desktop" New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Desktop" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Desktop" -Force Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Documents" New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Documents" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Documents" -Force Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Downloads" New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Downloads" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Downloads" -Force Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Favorites" New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Favorites" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Favorites" -Force Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Music" New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Music" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Music" -Force Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Pictures" New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Pictures" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Pictures" -Force Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Videos" New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Videos" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Videos" -Force

where would this be run from, the DC?

This would have to be run from the End-user's computer from the looks of it.

You are trying to screw with the end user's folders. they have to exist, and you have to have rights to them. neither of which are true of an admin account.

Are you automating this -- then How?

If you're not automating it, then why not just manually add the folders to the NextCloud client?

/sigh FFS...

@JaredBusch said in Crashplan vs Backblaze in 2018:

Something like this. It is not ready for prime time, but was my starting point last week when setting up a new desktop.

lol. I thought you were talking about the code...

Time to research a way to do that.

@Obsolesce said in Hyper-V Node Failover Cluster Control:

@JaredBusch said in Hyper-V Node Failover Cluster Control:

@Obsolesce said in Hyper-V Node Failover Cluster Control:

@DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V Node Failover Cluster Control:

How can I migrate my VM's from Host 1 to Host 2 and ensure that the VMs don't attempt to automatically migrate back to their preferred host?

Migration? It's definitely not automatic in the least.

Planned failover? There's a checkbox to uncheck if you don't want automatic reverse replication and the VM to automatically start up. Could that be what you meant?

Of course it is. In an actual cluster. Which involves System Center Configuraiton Manager (SCCM).

@DustinB3403 used the word cluster, but he does not have one.

Oh shit, I missed that it was about a cluster. I was thinking Hyper-V Manager, right-click, live migration. Totally spaced there.

Yeah, that was my point, it is not a cluster.