@JaredBusch said:

@ajstringham said:

It sounds like he's just doing maintenance backups, so I'd say yes, we need to get him a proper backup solution.

For what? Adding in something to specifically backup SQL is just another layer to make a mess.

He has (I assume nightly) full backup files being generated by SQL. Just back those up. Nothing else needs done. No messing with SQL and potentially breaking it.

Jared -...

Uhm...It's not being done... Ad hoc at best... the guy before me was using some copy program to external USB drives,.. Not really safe.

If you find that a blog is the route you wish to take,.. might look to see if there is a Android or iOS tool that will allow you to quickly 'post them' so that when you are away from your normal computing device, you can still 'tag' the information

@g.jacobse
Yup.. Damn - proves a point to never trust the print on the tray... they are 160GB drives..

@scottalanmiller said:

I agree, something funky here. Jarod is probably right. Blow that away and start over. Likely everything will be fine.

That is what I am about to do.. No reason why they should be that much of a difference in physical size to array size. It didn't occur to me yesterday, but I just thought that the drive tray is printed at 250GB,.. the drives could be smaller.. though unlikely..

Things that make you go hmmmm...

@ajstringham said:

@g.jacobse said:

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

Umm....stupid question, but are both HDDs in the RAID the same size??

Yes, the controller lists them as the same sice,.. and there are no stupid questions if you learn from the answer....

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?