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Now that's disaster recovery planning long term!

@scottalanmiller said in Any good DRaaS suggestions?:

@PhlipElder said in Any good DRaaS suggestions?:

SPX supports instant-on via file convert to VHDX/VMDK. Having those files sent to a DR site that is set up to fire the VMs up on short order would work well.

Not many cloud providers will take that format. So that can be a complication if you aren't ready for it. Then you need the networking, in most cases, to handle connecting the new cloud pieces to the existing network transparently.

Yeah, the whole process sounds easy but ...

@scottalanmiller said in Any good DRaaS suggestions?:

@PhlipElder said in Any good DRaaS suggestions?:

A quick "hack" way to do it would be to sync a copy of the SP files to a repository and have that repository hooked into BackBlaze. They would then be sync'd up to BB. Cost wise, it would be cheap, cheap, cheap.

That's good for the backup portion. But for full DR you have to handle the recovery, hosting, networking failover and those parts. That's where "putting it all together" comes in.

SPX supports instant-on via file convert to VHDX/VMDK. Having those files sent to a DR site that is set up to fire the VMs up on short order would work well.

And on the StorageCraft side of things, we've been a partner since the v3.x days. Their product was second to none for the longest time. We pulled off some spectacular recoveries because the product was just that good. It still is to some degree, it is just that managing in-guest backups for more than six or eight VMs gets to be a bear after a while. Dedupe and Compression in Veeam has saved us gobs of storage.

As far as StorageCraft goes, it became noticeable that things were going awry when their Partner mailers were promoting third party webinars and "grow your MSP" type stuff. In the v3.x, v4.x, and v5.x days the product was king with in-person training being awesome and costly but worth it.

The fact that Veeam secured $500M in investments recently points to where all the action is today. All backup vendors whose products don't work well, and believe me there are a lot of them which is really sad, are put on notice and I, IMNSHO, am very happy about that.

I'm a bit biased but we're in the process of setting up a BaaS And DRaaS service using Veeam's Cloud Connect.

What is the volume of backups in GBs/TBs?

A quick "hack" way to do it would be to sync a copy of the SP files to a repository and have that repository hooked into BackBlaze. They would then be sync'd up to BB. Cost wise, it would be cheap, cheap, cheap.

@valentina said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@PhlipElder Oh, this is funny because they are playing UNO in a "combi" which is a common transportation method in mexico (don't know if in Latin America in general). And usually people don't talk to each other lol

Heh ... neat!

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

We play UNO, Dutch Blitz, and a bunch of other card games regularly in our family. I'm not sure I get this one ...

On a public bus?

Just noticed the one guy on the left may have one card left that's a colour changer?

@valentina said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

We play UNO, Dutch Blitz, and a bunch of other card games regularly in our family. I'm not sure I get this one ...

@JaredBusch said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@jmoore said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@JaredBusch My dad used to work for Sumitomo and he got sent to Japan a couple of times for training. He is 6"6' and told stories like this where things just were not sized for larger people.

Meh, that is the only station I know of with a passage like l that. Those are just supports running parallel to the flow of traffic. You have to intentionally try to have a need to go under them.

We set up a home school tour of the Genesee coal power generation plant that's not too far down the highway from us.

The newest generation system was set up be a Japanese firm whose name slips my mind at the moment. When looking into the service tunnels I commented on their size and the fellow I was chatting with laughed and said yeah, some of the taller and/or more filled out guys can have problems getting around in there. Not for the claustrophobic for sure!

@garak0410 said in Network Issues on Copiers and HP Enterprise Printers:

Security Error 33.05.13

You've probably already seen this one:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04921512#AbT1

No mention of .13 either. Hmmmm

The fact that the printer boots okay until a network is present indicates it is probably reaching out and hitting a "you're bad" response (best guess).

If the firmware is up to date then one "workaround" would be to set up on the edge an Address Object (using SonicWALL terminology here) for the affected printers and their IPs (if range then do the range), then set a block for HTTP/HTTPS for them/their range. One could also set a full port block in place since they shouldn't be contacting the Internet anyway IMO.

We received quite a few warnings from HP to update firmware due to a bad vulnerability in their firmware. Were these printers updated? I can dig back in if need-be.