RAID1: 159GB - Physical 250GB drive
This Dell PEt310 has three physical disks, 2 are RAID1, 1 hot spare.. But the PERC s300 Disk management shows that the Raid is 159GB.

Why is my math of on that... (about to toast it and rebuild

@scottalanmiller said:

IOSafe is nice because it is fire proof.

Uhm,.. Yea,.. I've been watching those.. I've also thought of building my own... At least for myself at home.

@ajstringham @scottalanmiller

In restructuring, I'll have a box that I can drop drives in.. I have a PE t310 that I could retask,.. but it only has 250GB drives in it and only one Controller. I can't say it would be worth upgrading it.

I thought about using the PE 1800 since it had a 72DAT drive,.. but I think it is to limited ... There does get to be a point where dragging something alone just isn't practical.

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@g.jacobse typically your main options are:

• disk arrays (SAN, NAS, DAS, etc.)
• tape (LTO typically)
• cloud (Amazon S3, Rackspace, Azure, etc.)

Using USB and other manually removable drives can be used in special circumstances, but generally not. The big three really cover the bulk of the use cases because they are more automated, scaleable and reliable.

Yup. This.

Manually removable drives are in use now,.. and one is in recovery at only 20% image (been in the clean room since Oct 3rd).

I have some (OLD) tape equipment. but i feel that won't be enough - not to mention the age of the drive and tapes.

Other than the program to use,.. Are hard drives better? USB External or Some other type?

@ajstringham said:

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

Man... does anyone else wish they had a human size hamster ball?

You can get those now, you know!

Yea,.. but it makes it difficult to drive,...

You just gotta roll with it man!

Sadly,..I'm usually pushed...

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

Man... does anyone else wish they had a human size hamster ball?

You can get those now, you know!

Yea,.. but it makes it difficult to drive,...

@scottalanmiller said:

The first question is... what platform(s) are you backing up? That matters a lot.

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

The first question is... what platform(s) are you backing up? That matters a lot.

Agreed. Are we talking physical or virtual machines? SQL? Exchange? Oracle? What is your RTO?

We have 3 applications that run SQL, though they have internal backup ability. They are physical machines currently. Email is Office 365, so that isn't as much of a issue currently ( though We have to have a retention policy due to Grants and HIPPA). nearly 85% of it is just documents; Excel,Word, PDF, JPG, PNG,

RTO - I know what that is,.. but for the moment, I can't remember..

I haven't begun to move everything yet,.. but I'm thinking I'm looking at about 300GB of data what will need to be backed up....

What would a few suggestions be?

I'm actually in my Admin currently via FF...

They are having service issues with Exchange and Sharepoint...(again)

@scottalanmiller Will you get one?

@technobabble said:

I presume that the web client is a GUI for the appliance. And if I can't login using the default user/pass then the same would be true if I bring a monitor for the appliance and login manually.

You may have no choice but to reset it,... Which isn't the preferred manner

Have you tried the default User ID and Password?

Thanks @ajstringham - However the big item of interest is in post PDF creation and not just viewing.

Need to be able to create / edit / move / Add too existing PDFs. Since we are a NPO, we could have a grant document that is upwards of 600 pages long, but need to have some pages moved within the document.

NTM all the security aspects and what not.

I do use cutePDF and FOXIT,.. but they need more.

@scottalanmiller said:

If TechSoup doesn't, I don't think that anyone will for Microsoft products. In what way are you "over the line" for a non-profit?

Two factors - I needed 14 copies, limited to only 4 per year. Also budget requirement.

• Only organizations with annual budgets of US $10,000,000 or less are eligible to receive this Adobe donation.

I didn't think our NPO was that larger!

Seems Tech Soup is out, for some reason we are over the line even as a NPO.

They have been the main source (other than OpenSource) of software purchasing for the last nine years - Does anyone have any other suggestions? that would give us NPO pricing?

@Dominica said:

@g.jacobse said:

Think of Christopher Columbus and discovery of the New World.. Where would we Americans be had he not ventured into the unknown and the dangerous waters of monsters and myth.

You did NOT just go there with Christopher Columbus. SMH, didn't you read the Christopher Columbus thread from the other day? Check out the real story.

Read - I find it interesting.. It of course was not taught that way 30 years ago when I went through school..

I do realize that many of the 'good intended explorers' really did nothing but plunder, pillage and other foul and unpleasant things,... all in the name of Progress

One wonders if we will again turn a blind eye ( or just poke the eye out completely) when we meet those beyond the stars...

Fear and greed -

@Dominica said:

@g.jacobse said:

Think of Christopher Columbus and discovery of the New World.. Where would we Americans be had he not ventured into the unknown and the dangerous waters of monsters and myth.

You did NOT just go there with Christopher Columbus. SMH, didn't you read the Christopher Columbus thread from the other day? Check out the real story.

Sorry @Dominica , I guess I missed it working.. or at least pretending to work. Let me go find it and see what the hubbub is about. (Okay.. I admit it,.. I was watching The Walking Dead, and LOST on NetFlix..)

@Dominica said:

It also does not recognize when I've already visited a thread.

What about a USB bootable OS?

@scottalanmiller said:

Yeah, it was absolutely crazy and terrifying.

Which is why (at least I think) the phrase "Flying by the seat of your pants" was coined....

Long / Deep space exploration is impractical because of the amount of fuel, water and Oxygen that would need to be bottled and hauled with. You'd have to build a Bio-sphere type system.. a 'Mini Earth'

But I'm no rocket scientist..