@Carnival-Boy said:
What are the chances of you quitting your current employers but then being re-employed by them as a consultant through your own business for mega-bucks?
(I don't actually know what an MSP is, so I'm not sure if I've understood your post correctly).
I've done that before. It was lucrative, though awkward.
It depends on the device. For something like an ASA, I just open up SNMP inbound from the management station IP addresses. Other IPs won't even know it has SNMP. If it moves data (switches, APs, etc.) I change the SNMP string. Other devices, such as printers, are based on the environment.
@NetworkNerd said:
I'm down to 392 minutes now. My how time flies.
Are you calling for the network outage?
@Dashrender said:
@alexntg said:
@Dashrender said:
Are you saying that you don't need Pertino because the offsite devices would backup directly to the CrashPlan servers, and not your local server... that makes sense, but then you loose the fast recovery time of a local store.
CrashPlan uses secure transmission, so they could back up directly over the Internet to your local backup server. Additionally, you could set a bandwidth limiter on the CrashPlan inbound firewall rule so that it doesn't eat up all of your bandwidth. This is especially useful for environments where you don't want the end-user's computer connected to your network at all (such as an MSP's clients).
Do you have to publish your onsite CrashPlan server to the internet? or does CrashPlan act as a middleman like Skype used to before they decided to bend the will of the NSA?
For backups over the Internet with CrashPlan PROe, you'd need to open up some firewall ports and make an appropriate external DNS entry. Your machines would back up directly to your server. CrashPlan PRO is the version that backs up to CrashPlan's hosted service.
If you haven't received a raise, using potential departure will be a temporary help. If you make your mind up to leave, leave. As someone who's moved literally halfway across the country for work, sometimes you just need to do that. Traveling for work can also be lucrative, but I understand that it isn't for everyone. Sometimes compensation grows as the position grows, but sometimes it doesn't. In the latter situation, you need to change in order to make the appropriate amount of money. Whichever way you go or don't go, there will always be what-ifs, but it's a matter of learning to not dwell on them.
@Carnival-Boy said:
I had a candidate turn up late and he never apologised. So I knew straight away that I wouldn't employ him. But annoyingly, I still spent half-an-hour going through the motions of an interview. Why did I do that?
This begs the question, if you know very early on that a candidate has failed an interview, do you end the interview early or do you go through the motions to avoid any embarrassment?
If you're 100% sure, I don't see any reason to keep going with the interview. Just make sure not to do it with your 2nd-5th candidates, just in case the leader doesn't take the offer. As an interviewee, I've ended interviews early.
@Dashrender said:
@alexntg said:
@Dashrender said:
@alexntg said:
@technobabble said:
@alexntg said:
@technobabble said:
I used Carbonite for small business and recently had a dual disaster. I woke to my PC's SSD drive was borked a week ago Saturday. I turned off my backup rig (PC as a backup drive) and put the drive in a USB dock and lost the partition! Luckily I had backed up the backup rig to Carbonite small business. The disappointing part is that on day 8 I am only at 82% of the 250GB drive using a 16MBs Comcast business connection.
I too am looking for something faster for retrieving an online backup.
That's one of the good things about CrashPlan PROe. You can just restore the data locally to the server or to another machine.
So with CrashPlan PROe you have a RAID backup appliance plus online backup?
The backup database sits on a Windows server, not an appliance. Your clients back up directly to the server. If you set it up for external access for remote users, your server then becomes the online backup. Hybrid backup is also an option if you want to have a "cloud" secondary backup location.
Combine this with Pertino and you'd have a cool setup.
You don't need Pertino for this to work properly.
Are you saying that you don't need Pertino because the offsite devices would backup directly to the CrashPlan servers, and not your local server... that makes sense, but then you loose the fast recovery time of a local store.
CrashPlan uses secure transmission, so they could back up directly over the Internet to your local backup server. Additionally, you could set a bandwidth limiter on the CrashPlan inbound firewall rule so that it doesn't eat up all of your bandwidth. This is especially useful for environments where you don't want the end-user's computer connected to your network at all (such as an MSP's clients).
@Nara said:
@Dashrender said:
@steve said:
I just tested it and am seeing the issue too. I will raise this with the developers.
See you're not crazy after all
Well, at least not in this case!
Nara, are you still with us?
@Dashrender said:
@alexntg said:
@technobabble said:
@alexntg said:
@technobabble said:
I used Carbonite for small business and recently had a dual disaster. I woke to my PC's SSD drive was borked a week ago Saturday. I turned off my backup rig (PC as a backup drive) and put the drive in a USB dock and lost the partition! Luckily I had backed up the backup rig to Carbonite small business. The disappointing part is that on day 8 I am only at 82% of the 250GB drive using a 16MBs Comcast business connection.
I too am looking for something faster for retrieving an online backup.
That's one of the good things about CrashPlan PROe. You can just restore the data locally to the server or to another machine.
So with CrashPlan PROe you have a RAID backup appliance plus online backup?
The backup database sits on a Windows server, not an appliance. Your clients back up directly to the server. If you set it up for external access for remote users, your server then becomes the online backup. Hybrid backup is also an option if you want to have a "cloud" secondary backup location.
Combine this with Pertino and you'd have a cool setup.
You don't need Pertino for this to work properly.
Yes, please! Email outside work hours is horrible. I might check mine once or twice a night. If something blows up, key people know how to otherwise get ahold of me.
@technobabble said:
@alexntg said:
@technobabble said:
I used Carbonite for small business and recently had a dual disaster. I woke to my PC's SSD drive was borked a week ago Saturday. I turned off my backup rig (PC as a backup drive) and put the drive in a USB dock and lost the partition! Luckily I had backed up the backup rig to Carbonite small business. The disappointing part is that on day 8 I am only at 82% of the 250GB drive using a 16MBs Comcast business connection.
I too am looking for something faster for retrieving an online backup.
That's one of the good things about CrashPlan PROe. You can just restore the data locally to the server or to another machine.
So with CrashPlan PROe you have a RAID backup appliance plus online backup?
The backup database sits on a Windows server, not an appliance. Your clients back up directly to the server. If you set it up for external access for remote users, your server then becomes the online backup. Hybrid backup is also an option if you want to have a "cloud" secondary backup location.
Side note: If you're considering this, make sure that you have a separate data partition. You can't dedupe the system drive.
In the client environments where we've deployed it, we've seen upwards of 40% savings for a manufacturing firm and 31% for a financial services firm. it's a little bit RAM hungry, but a file server with 8GB of RAM is sufficient. Because it uses that extra RAM, IOPS haven't been noticably impacted. I also set it to wait for files to have not been modified for 2 weeks prior to deduping them.
There has been one bizarre interaction between Vipre antivirus and 2012 deduplication at a couple of our clients. It changes a couple of registry keys that prevents Windows XP or OS X clients from accessing the deduplicated data. In those cases, I wound up taking out deduplication. Otherwise, it's worked great.
I recently had a near-miss with my password. What should someone do until a fix gets put in place? Is there a support email address?
@technobabble said:
I used Carbonite for small business and recently had a dual disaster. I woke to my PC's SSD drive was borked a week ago Saturday. I turned off my backup rig (PC as a backup drive) and put the drive in a USB dock and lost the partition! Luckily I had backed up the backup rig to Carbonite small business. The disappointing part is that on day 8 I am only at 82% of the 250GB drive using a 16MBs Comcast business connection.
I too am looking for something faster for retrieving an online backup.
That's one of the good things about CrashPlan PROe. You can just restore the data locally to the server or to another machine.
@Hubtech said:
Change your passwords folks
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/04/heartbleed-bug-exposes-passwords-web-site-encryption-keys/
Ugh, the amount of stuff I'm going to have to update is staggering.
@Nic said:
I'd hear his story out of curiosity, but unless it is a damn good excuse then he'd be out for me.
Exactly. Car wreck, kid/spouse/parent/etc. in a hospital, sure, no problem. Business-crical server went down? That could go either way. Nearly anything else is inexcusable.
@lillucia said:
@alexntg It wouldn't let us wipe it! I think that was the point where they decided just to replace it.
I was only wondering whether it was something with Windows 8 that would have been fine with 8.1,Just weird really... I was at the point of throwing the stupid thing out the window.
Was secure boot enabled? It's a BIOS setting that prevents other OSes from installing.
