@wirestyle22 said in The Sysadmin / CTO machine - A Surface + Cloud to rule them all?:
My setup is an iPad Pro + NextCloud server. I have never owned a surface but I have heard a lot of negative comments made about them. I hope that is not your experience though.
Oh, really? Why? I'm in time to return it… I've discarded iPad Pro because of many limitations of iOS vs Linux/Windows, but surely is good hardware and hard to beat for web browsing and other light stuff.
I've just ordered a Surface Pro 4 with baseline config (core M3, 128Gb storage), intended to be my travel companion replacing my old MBP late 2011.
I want to follow the philosophy of having a thin endpoint just to surf the web and doing basic stuff with text and cli, leveraging cloud or on permise servers for everything requiring big ram, CPU or GPU.
I also have Dropbox for business (unlimited storage), so local storage is not an issue.
What do you think about a setup like that?
Does anyone of you have already worked with similar configuration?
@JaredBusch said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:
@Francesco-Provino said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:
so I will use BOTH Dropbox AND BackBlaze for backup ;).
Why? Because using dropbox just emans you then need to deal with restoring 3 computers not 1 because the encrypted files will get sync'd.
Yeah you have them backed up to backblaze, but it still sync'd the useless files around.
I want to completely drop file sharing with fileserver, going serverless. The remote event of a cryptolocker will of course lead to a complete reinstall of the machine and resync of the whole stuff from backups. That's why I want to take also a little NAS with scheduled snapshots… just to be able to quickly recover all the stuff in less than a day.
Losing one or two working day is acceptable (or, better, they will only be slowed down but the recovery of the most important files can be done instantly via BB or Dropbox versioning), losing data is NOT.
@JaredBusch said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:
@Francesco-Provino said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:
@BRRABill said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:
@JaredBusch said
This does not get you any kind of off site, but it gets you solid true backups.
It's not ideal, but couldn't they invest in a few USB drives and just dump the data and rotate them offsite?
It would at least save MOST of the data in the case of a local catastrophe.
There's absolutely NO person aware of IT issues in this office, I have to setup something that they don't have to deal with. Absolutely!
Again a sync tool is not a backup. But if you are going to stay with a sync tool, then buy 2 NextCloud Box systems.
Set 1 up in the office and have their systems point to it.
Setup number 2 with a DNS name and use a local DNS override in th eoffice to point to it locally. Let them sync.
Remove DNS override and move number 2 offsite. Sync will resume.
Of course is not, so I will use BOTH Dropbox AND BackBlaze for backup ;).
@BRRABill said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:
@dafyre said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:
@BRRABill His point still remains in that you are covered if a rock falls on the building, but not if a fire burns down the entire city.
Is it often that a fire burns down an entire city?
I mean what are the risk chances of
a) a loss of the NAS (theft, building fire, building flood)
b) a whoel city burning down
The problem is they WILL forget to bring usb home, or throw the drive and ignore errors… really, what's wrong with a cloud backup in this scenario? Apart from the first upload, the changed data ratio will be very low, something like <100Mb/day.
@BRRABill said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:
@JaredBusch said
This does not get you any kind of off site, but it gets you solid true backups.
It's not ideal, but couldn't they invest in a few USB drives and just dump the data and rotate them offsite?
It would at least save MOST of the data in the case of a local catastrophe.
There's absolutely NO person aware of IT issues in this office, I have to setup something that they don't have to deal with. Absolutely!
@scottalanmiller said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:
@Francesco-Provino said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:
Mmmh, great suggestion, but isn't Dropbox Pro even more simple? It can also leverage LAN sync!
I've not used it with the LAN sync feature. You mean it syncs to a local NAS or file server?
No, it syncs between clients. It works well, very effective.
Mmmh, great suggestion, but isn't Dropbox Pro even more simple? It can also leverage LAN sync!
@scottalanmiller said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:
@Francesco-Provino said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:
@scottalanmiller said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:
@Francesco-Provino have you seen how I have been working hard on my Italian on DuoLingo to prepare for three months there?
No, just watched now! I'm from Palermo, also in Sicily
. I'll PM you about that, it would be great to meet you!
You live there still, now? We will definitely be there some of the time. My wife's family is from a village right outside of Palermo and we hope to spend some time there looking for some birth and death records at the church.
Yes, I'm Palermo right now. What village? I'm from Bagheria, in truth, ~20km from Palermo…
@scottalanmiller said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:
@Francesco-Provino have you seen how I have been working hard on my Italian on DuoLingo to prepare for three months there?
No, just watched now! I'm from Palermo, also in Sicily . I'll PM you about that, it would be great to meet you!
@scottalanmiller said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:
@Breffni-Potter said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync e backup:
512KB of upload? Any way of getting them a better internet connection?
Italy. I'm going to be in the same boat in a few weeks
Really? Where? Maybe we can take a coffee together 
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@Breffni-Potter 4G is not an option, we don't have flat-rate plan for mobile connectivity in Italy. It's not worth to pay 1€/Gb-traffic/month for that.
@Breffni-Potter nope, not under 2-300€/month (HDSL). Not worth the price for such a small office.
I got a new customer, a small office with just three Windows clients that was just hit by a ransomware, so I've the duty to protect their data as well as possible from issues like that.
I think about a Dropbox Pro for file syncing between clients and Backblaze pro for backup… maybe a small Synology also for local backup and desktop image archiving (veeam endpoint or clonezilla image for fast bare-metal recovery in case of a major fault).
They have a standard ADSL connection with ~512Kb of upload, and the files to backup are in the range of 100Gb.
I hope that my plan will serve well for data protection, sharing and DR, but if have any tip about it, please share!
Mmmh, my POV is that ESXi free and HyperV are out of game for reasons above, but I see KVM on par of XS; for GUI-centric user and standardized use case XS is better than KVM, but it you want to build a little of automation and go beyond what is provided by the standard XS installation, I think that today KVM is better. KVM is as hard (or as easy) as a standard Linux distro, XS is easy if you go with the default routes but very hard if you want to go elsewhere… like file-based thin vm storage, for example. Libvirt is simple, but not easy. Oh, XS win over plain KVM regarding the networking (default OpenvSwitch). I got my eyes on the latest oVirt release.
@sn said in 40 TB NAS storage recommendations...:
I have around 38 TB, less frequently used (say, once in a week) data, spread across a few machines.
Now I got the green signal to buy a NAS box to consolidate this data and would like to know what do you think of getting a QNAP or Synology or any other better box.In terms of access requirement, i should be happy if it comes with
1-1Gbps LAN
2-Windows/Linux/OS X client support
3-RAID5/10 (please let us not discuss this further in this thread)
4-Rack (or tower)
5-Redundant power supplyThis will be a standalone NAS, no plans for iSCSI.
Mmmh... for that capacity and access requirements, why not use S3-infrequent access or maybe also Glacier (for archival)? It could be cost effective… I've done some math, it's ~600$/month for S3 infrequent access and ~200$/month for full Glacier (maybe not good for the whole storage but ok for old backups and so on).
S3 - infrequent is 0,0125$/month/Gb and Glacier is 0,004$/month/Gb. I'm not associated with AWS in any way, I'm just doing something like that in my company (for smaller dataset).
@travisdh1 said in What is the best way to backup Dropbox for business to AWS?:
@Francesco-Provino said in What is the best way to backup Dropbox for business to AWS?:
@travisdh1 Oh, download also, we are on a 4Mbit/s symmetric HDSL link
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I'd give my left leg for a 4mbit symmetric. Our two locations have 10mbit/1mbit and 768k/356k respectively.
Wow, so I think anything cloud-based is ruled out for you… HDSL is not cheap, we are planning for a dedicated 10/10 FTTH link, abou the same price.
@travisdh1 Oh, download also, we are on a 4Mbit/s symmetric HDSL link .
@travisdh1 unfortunately we have big issue with upload speed, so I prefer to backup everything directly from Dropbox, so a cloud service is a must in our case.
Hi everybody, a company in which I work now rely on Dropbox for business for filesharing, and I manage a local machine (on-permise VM) that sync every files on Dropbox to its local storage. I take scheduled and verified backup of this machine with Veeam (it's a vSphere installation), but now I want to have another backup in the cloud, something like a digital vault for disaster recovery and archive purpose.
My natural choice is AWS S3/Glacier, but the transfer services like mover.io or cloudhq aren't cheap in any way… do you have any suggestion about that? Someone has experience in stuff like that?
