@dbeato said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:

@JasGot said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:

@dbeato said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:

@JasGot said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:

We've been a Cloudberry Provider for many years. We have some customers on Unitrends.

We are in the process of moving all our customers to Datto. It's partner channel only, so you'll have to find someone to work through.

We are putting an appliance onsite; with forever cloud copy.

I hate Unitrends for a plethora of reasons, and I just don't have a high level of confidence in Cloudberry anymore.

Also, I do like the idea of the onsite appliance for quick recovery rather than downloading fro the cloud (current Cloudberry setup).

Datto's backups are all stored P2V, you can spin up a VM of someone's PC or your server in about 40 seconds. I like this part.

Datto restore aren't that fast as far as I have tried and we have many appliances.

In what way? The VMs sitting on our local Datto appliance are up and running in about 40 seconds.
Same for those we spin up in the cloud.

Now bringing a full system restore down from cloud storage can only be as fast as your ISP connection.

What are your resources on the VM? Like are you running a VM with 80 GB of Data or TB of Data?

Most are 150GBish

@dbeato said in Sources for Volume or Open License:

I use GHA Technologies for my VAR and Commercial Volume Licensing. For non-profit I usually use TechSoup.

Check out Tech-Crawl for non profits. I've had great experiences with them.

Put a RouterBoardOS RB260GS at each house and use a free ddns service. $35each and yo're done.

Or a Ubiquiti Edge Router Lite will work too, just more expensive.

I use the Ubiquiti ERL for IPSec into my house from the office, my phone, and my laptop. Love it.

73 old man.

@dbeato said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:

@JasGot said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:

We've been a Cloudberry Provider for many years. We have some customers on Unitrends.

We are in the process of moving all our customers to Datto. It's partner channel only, so you'll have to find someone to work through.

We are putting an appliance onsite; with forever cloud copy.

I hate Unitrends for a plethora of reasons, and I just don't have a high level of confidence in Cloudberry anymore.

Also, I do like the idea of the onsite appliance for quick recovery rather than downloading fro the cloud (current Cloudberry setup).

Datto's backups are all stored P2V, you can spin up a VM of someone's PC or your server in about 40 seconds. I like this part.

Datto restore aren't that fast as far as I have tried and we have many appliances.

In what way? The VMs sitting on our local Datto appliance are up and running in about 40 seconds.
Same for those we spin up in the cloud.

Now bringing a full system restore down from cloud storage can only be as fast as your ISP connection.

@dave_c said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:

@JasGot
As you have customers on Unitrends, have you tried Unitrends MSP? I am intrigued by it.
I have no current relation to Unitrends and I have a trust problem with them now that the company is part of Kaseya but I know someone who says it works well.
I am more into Veeam but I miss a real, full featured multi-tenant console.

I have not.

I spent 2 hours a day on the phone with them, at least 3 days a week for over two months working on a VPN setup for instant VM DR from a remote location. In the end, they said, "yeah, we can't figure out how to do it."

That when I decide to go looking......

We've been a Cloudberry Provider for many years. We have some customers on Unitrends.

We are in the process of moving all our customers to Datto. It's partner channel only, so you'll have to find someone to work through.

We are putting an appliance onsite; with forever cloud copy.

I hate Unitrends for a plethora of reasons, and I just don't have a high level of confidence in Cloudberry anymore.

Also, I do like the idea of the onsite appliance for quick recovery rather than downloading fro the cloud (current Cloudberry setup).

Datto's backups are all stored P2V, you can spin up a VM of someone's PC or your server in about 40 seconds. I like this part.

Who do you use (in the states) for commercial and/or non profit Volume and Open Licensing?

I am interested in exploring additional vendors.

Last week Microsoft announced they will start nagging end users to upgrade to Windows 10. The nagging will start April 2019.
This created a need to be able to discuss, on the fly, which PCs at the customer are on Windows 7. I created this Accesslist Expression to show me the customer's Windows 7 PCs super quick.

I hope you find it useful, or it gives you ideas of your own.

Setup your Custom Session Properties here:
Admin->Appearance->Web Resources->SessionProperty.CustomX.AccessVisible
Admin->Appearance->Web Resources->SessionProperty.CustomX.LabelText

SessionProperty.Custom1.AccessVisible = true
SessionProperty.Custom1.LabelText = Organization
SessionProperty.Custom2.AccessVisible = true
SessionProperty.Custom2.LabelText = Department

Then set these properties on each Access Client:
Organization = // Example: ABC Widget Company
Department = // Example: Admin, Accounting, Sales, C-Level, Maintenance, Logistics (Don't forget to put the Servers in a Department, I use "!Servers" to keep them at the top of the list)

Next, create a new Session Group (at bottom of Access List)
Name = Customers
Session Filter = Blank (Although I have Access Clients that are not for the techs to see, so I use: CustomProperty1 <> 'Private' as the session filter to prevent our tech from seeing my personal access clients)
Subgroup Expression: Paste in the next block, it will accept it with CRLF as below to make it more readable, so no need to make it all one line before you paste

IIF (CustomProperty1 <> '' AND CustomProperty2 <> '', CustomProperty1, 
IIF (CustomProperty1 <> '' AND CustomProperty2 = '', CustomProperty1, 
IIF (CustomProperty1 = '' AND CustomProperty2 = '', '!UnNamed','!Error'))),   
CustomProperty2,
IIF (GuestOperatingSystemName LIKE '*Server*', '!Servers', 
IIF (GuestOperatingSystemName LIKE '*Embedded*', 'Embedded OS', 
IIF (GuestOperatingSystemName LIKE '*Windows XP*', 'Windows XP PCs',
IIF (GuestOperatingSystemName LIKE '*Windows 7*', 'Windows 7 PCs', 
IIF (GuestOperatingSystemName LIKE '*Windows 8*', 'Windows 8 PCs',
IIF (GuestOperatingSystemName LIKE '*Windows 10*', 'Windows 10 PCs', 
IIF (GuestOperatingSystemName LIKE '*MAC*', 'MAC OS','')))))))

It creates an Access list that looks like this:

Customers
	ABC Widget Company
		Accounting
			Windows 10 PCs
			Windows 7 PCs
		Sales
			Windows 10 PCs
			Windows 7 PCs
		Marketing
			Windows 10 PCs
			Mac OS
		Maintenance
			Windows 7 PCs
			Windows 8 PCs
			Windows XP
	XYZ Manufacturing
		Accounting
			Windows 10 PCs
			Windows 7 PCs
		Sales
			Windows 10 PCs
			Windows 7 PCs
		Production
			Embedded OS

Enjoy!

@Emad-R said in Veeeeeeerrrrrryyyyy long paths and filenames:

@JasGot

Robocopy

Geeez. I use Robocopy all the time, I can't believe I didn't think of that!

Thanks for the tickler!

@siringo said in Veeeeeeerrrrrryyyyy long paths and filenames:

I come cross this from time to time, luckily the document and folder doesn't need to be kept.

I rename the document to '1' and the folder '1', this obviously shortens things greatly.

Maybe you could come up with a clever script that just renames things automatically for you?

Deltree used to work for this.

I've done this manually too, the folder names are "sometimes" important. I'll give this some thought as a script and see what I can come up with.

How did you do it with DelTree?

@DustinB3403 said in Veeeeeeerrrrrryyyyy long paths and filenames:

@notverypunny said in Veeeeeeerrrrrryyyyy long paths and filenames:

Quick fix is to remount the folder to an unused drive letter closer to the target.... so c:\stupid\long\folder\path\file1.txt becomes x:\file1.txt

subst works great for this

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/subst

This, while it works to address the symptom, doesn't fix the plague.

An a plague it is!

@notverypunny said in Veeeeeeerrrrrryyyyy long paths and filenames:

Quick fix is to remount the folder to an unused drive letter closer to the target.... so c:\stupid\long\folder\path\file1.txt becomes x:\file1.txt

subst works great for this

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/subst

I love subst. We use it regularly for things most people never think of. The issue is subsequent access. I suppose I could create and drop a script into each evidence folder that creates the substitutions whenever they are needed.

I was hoping for a utility that would work much like bitly.com or goo.gl or tiny.cc

In my mind I see it creating symbolic links to the long paths, and then hiding the original paths until the import is finished. Then unlink and unhide.

Simplified explanation, but no so simple to implement.

@gjacobse said in Veeeeeeerrrrrryyyyy long paths and filenames:

One of the biggest tools you can use is User Education. Long file names will make backups fail. If you are in the legal realm, the users must be educated that they are causing issues that will make your business fail, clients lose the case, and on some level - worse.

Sadly, the data come from entire disk images of all users at the opposing counsel's client; and entire exchange server dumps. I understand the logic behind education, we preach it all the time to our customers. But we never know where the data is coming from until were are headed for trial.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

“Severe” ransomware attack cripples big aluminum producer

Infection that started in the US shuts down network worldwide; company scrambles to recover.

Norsk Hydro of Norway said the malware first hit computers in the United States on Monday night. By Tuesday morning, the infection had spread to other parts of the company, which operates in 40 countries. Company officials responded by isolating plants to prevent further spreading. Some plants were temporarily stopped, while others, which had to be kept running continuously, were switched to manual mode when possible. The company’s 35,000 employees were instructed to keep computers turned off but were allowed to use phones and tablets to check email.

Price of aluminum should go up nicely.

All Windows based.

I am so fed up with people who write novels in the input box for a filename or folder.

I import data for legal analysis almost daily and the number of times I have to deal with long folder paths and file names is really frustrating.

I either spend 30-120 minutes shortening paths by hand, or writing scripts to try and do it, but you can't really account for all the funny business that people come up with.

I just finished working through a little over 10 million files that had an average path and name of 210 chars. That means for every path and file that was 2 chars, I had one that was over 512 chars. My head hurts.

Has anyone ever encountered a utility to fix this? any ideas?

Of course the real underlying questions is: How the hell did they do it if Windows objects? (Later, when I try to move them!)

@scottalanmiller said in Operating Systems that you may enjoy?:

I use Fedora and Deepin regularly. Neither are that obscure, but neither are quite mainstream either.

I saw you mention Deepin the other day. I may give it a look too.

There are many operating systems out there. Do any of you use any that are not-so-familiar for anything other than productivity for work or home?

I was doing some reading today and thought I install a few to what they were like.

I have no reason other than to satisfy my curiosity to explore....

Sorry for noob question. Just want to make sure that the NVR's 16 network ports works as normal switch ports.

Yes they do.

@notverypunny said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller I can't speak to the Linux agent, but the windows one offers a connect button that does a 1 time connection without installing. Better than team viewer as it pops in the tech console instead of having to get a user id an pw from the user

I haven't seen this connect button, can you elaborate a bit so I can check it out? Thanks.