@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Got a coax network working with Ubiquiti AC Pros working well with Gigabit Coax to Ethernet adapters.

I had no idea that coax was still used in networking! Do you still have to use the terminators and all that or is this something different?

What's the impedence of the coax cable? (I think most older cable TV lines run on 75 ohms or something like that)

Nothing like that today. MOCA makes life easy!

TV coax is still 75 ohm. However, there is coax with lower impedance but with higher cost.

@kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got my laptop back from Dell repair. Having to rebuild it back to its glory. This is going to take a while.

The six stages of workstation reinstall:

1. The OS install went faster than I expected.
2. There are a ton of patches
3. How can it take 14 hours to download one version upgrade
4. Finally ready to install software
5. I know I'm missing something

Steps 6-429: Oh yeah, that is what I forgot to install.

Its a life long process...

Just got my laptop back from Dell repair. Having to rebuild it back to its glory. This is going to take a while.

@jmoore Bless your heart. Hope you get to feeling better soon and get that thing checked out.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Expensive floormat!

@gjacobse said in Weekend Plans:

@wrx7m said in Weekend Plans:

My oncall week is every week.

Same here... not always needed.. .but always available.

Same here

Daughter's 8th birthday

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Dealing with yet another Comcast outage.

One of my favorite questions from On High during a Comcast outage was "when will it be fixed?"

¯＼(ツ)/¯

Professor Messer + Their own lab to learn in

When Mexico was still in, the TVs were constantly on soccer with the volume full blast, but now that Mexico is out, the TVs are finally quiet. Funny how interest is lost because one team lost.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Good morning. Kids are just having breakfast.

Wow. Its early for yall.

@scottalanmiller said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

@nerdydad said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

@scottalanmiller said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

@nerdydad said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

@nerdydad said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

@scottalanmiller said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

Haven't tried it, but I suppose you could script a sort of backup to that location.

Sure, map it to the local folder that is being synced with ODfB. I'll have to try that real quick.

Scratch this idea, unless you do a file-level backup. The only problem with file-level recovery is that you will not be able to recover the laptop if something was to happen. You will only have the files and not the OS. But, if you're just backing up the files, then you might as well take out Veeam Agent altogether and put the files on ODfB as is. Plus, Veeam Agent barks at the idea of backing up the system to its own drive, even though it is synced off-disk.

Who needs to back up a whole laptop? That seems silly.

Protects against ransomware and loss of data if the laptop is lost/stolen from a road warrior. Granted, you are probably going to say that the documents should be stored in the server and backed up from there, but users don't always think in protecting company data. And getting them to is more of a management task than it is a SysAdmin task.

How? The laptop itself is worthless data. Just install the OS again.

It should be, but often times, users will store valuable data on the laptop when they should be storing it on more preferred storage. Then, something happens and they expect IT to work miracles, such as reading the platters or something because they heard that it could be done.

@scottalanmiller said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

@nerdydad said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

@nerdydad said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

@scottalanmiller said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

Haven't tried it, but I suppose you could script a sort of backup to that location.

Sure, map it to the local folder that is being synced with ODfB. I'll have to try that real quick.

Scratch this idea, unless you do a file-level backup. The only problem with file-level recovery is that you will not be able to recover the laptop if something was to happen. You will only have the files and not the OS. But, if you're just backing up the files, then you might as well take out Veeam Agent altogether and put the files on ODfB as is. Plus, Veeam Agent barks at the idea of backing up the system to its own drive, even though it is synced off-disk.

Who needs to back up a whole laptop? That seems silly.

Protects against ransomware and loss of data if the laptop is lost/stolen from a road warrior. Granted, you are probably going to say that the documents should be stored in the server and backed up from there, but users don't always think in protecting company data. And getting them to is more of a management task than it is a SysAdmin task.

@nerdydad said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

@scottalanmiller said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

Haven't tried it, but I suppose you could script a sort of backup to that location.

Sure, map it to the local folder that is being synced with ODfB. I'll have to try that real quick.

Scratch this idea, unless you do a file-level backup. The only problem with file-level recovery is that you will not be able to recover the laptop if something was to happen. You will only have the files and not the OS. But, if you're just backing up the files, then you might as well take out Veeam Agent altogether and put the files on ODfB as is. Plus, Veeam Agent barks at the idea of backing up the system to its own drive, even though it is synced off-disk.

@scottalanmiller said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

Haven't tried it, but I suppose you could script a sort of backup to that location.

Sure, map it to the local folder that is being synced with ODfB. I'll have to try that real quick.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Back online after doing essentially nothing but driving since first thing Saturday morning.

Glad you're back. Its been kind of quiet.

You can use Veeam Endpoint, but it does require a license to backup to ODfB. That is more of a premium feature. Otherwise, you're tied to some type of local storage, whether on your network or to your PC.

Blasted little gremlins running around in my network.

<Bang><Bang>Die blasted gremlines, DIE!!<Bang><Bang>

30 minutes of troubleshooting with Dell support warrants my main driving computer going to the shop for repair.

Trying to troubleshoot to see why some keys on my keyboard are still messing up. Thank goodness for Dell warranty.