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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Digital exchange loses $137 million as founder takes passwords to the grave

A cryptocurrency exchange in Canada has lost control of at least $137 million of its customers’ assets following the sudden death of its founder, who was the only person known to have access to the offline wallet that stored the digital coins. British Columbia-based QuadrigaCX is unable to access most or all of another $53 million because it’s tied up in disputes with third parties.

Cryptocurrencies present a whole new opportunity for going from rich to nothing in an instant. With traditional banking, it's essentially impossible for large sums of money to just cease to exist in that way.

Exciting stuff.

Basically if you are going to run a service of this nature, you probably want to build in the cost of immutable backups from the beginning. Just assume it is a required cost and build around it. Don't look at it years later and say "how do I afford this." You wouldn't say "SMTP costs too much, we will skip that", right? So the same with fully separate backups.

That said, if he had a central repository of passwords that was cracked as someone mentioned, they might have shut down any storage accounts elsewhere.

Offline backups should not be that expensive. And the cost would generally scale with the size of the vendor. If you have ten mailboxes, it costs 10 * X. If you have a million, it is a million * X. But presumably they bill by the mailbox, so the cost of immutable backups would remain relatively close to the same per mailbox. So no matter how big or small, backups should have been able to be taken offline unless they were priced so low that backups could never be afforded at any scale.

I agree, mostly flash, little substance. At least imbalanced substance. Some good stuff that is overkill in one direction, then missing the basics in others. But hey, it is a lab, hopefully it is actually teaching him stuff and not just costing a lot of money.

If there are health benefits, it probably would come from switching positions regularly, rather than choosing any single one.

Looks like up until a few days ago they were really active on Twitter. And then went silent around when the supposed issue began.

https://twitter.com/proteksupport

Their last posts before going silent were all about security and avoiding things like ransomware.

@NashBrydges said in Backing up Office 365:

@Reid-Cooper said in Backing up Office 365:

@NashBrydges said in Backing up Office 365:

If you happen to have a Synology onsite, they also offer Active Backup For Office 365. I'm using this at a small client's site with ~40 mailboxes. Works pretty well.

Is that included or you need to purchase it additionally?

It's included. No additional licensing required. It happens to be running right now for another client who we just setup a NAS for onsite backups so here's a screenshot (removed the list of users for privacy). This is the initial backup that's running. 14 users done, 6 more to go. The daily backups once the initial is done are much faster.

wow, that could justify the cost of a Synology pretty easily right there if you use that feature.

@NashBrydges said in Backing up Office 365:

If you happen to have a Synology onsite, they also offer Active Backup For Office 365. I'm using this at a small client's site with ~40 mailboxes. Works pretty well.

Is that included or you need to purchase it additionally?

In short, this seems like a deliberate decision to take on some technical debt.

@hobbit666 said in Setting up a Fedora Workstation to Manage KVM with Virt-Manager - Remote access solutions:

1. As you suggest, install a Linux VM and within that VM use Virt-Viewer.

For more common would be to install oVirt in a VM for that.

@wrx7m said in Resume Revamp - Advice on Format/Layout and Type of Content:

I guess I will make mine more brief.

That is what most people agree on, more brief over less brief.

@wrx7m said in Resume Revamp - Advice on Format/Layout and Type of Content:

If you have gone through multiple generations of upgrades, say, Windows 2003 to 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 to 2016 for AD domain controllers, how would you state something like that?

I would keep it short and concise. It depends where you are putting it, I suppose. But something in skills like...

"Experience with multiple AD upgrades over a number of generations."

And elsewhere "Windows Experience: 2003 - 2016"

I doubt that anyone is going to be overly concerned with exactly which combinations of AD upgrades you have done, rather just that you have done it multiple times over multiple versions.

@Emad-R said in Just a regular day:

@Reid-Cooper said in Just a regular day:

Sounds like cars in Canada is way too complex.

Cars in Jordan is 200% taxed, so if the car costs 9000 you pay 18000 JOD. The cost of new hyundai car here is 15k JOD which is 20K $

That is just insane. At least the system is simple, though.

I like LXQt. Light and easy, but has that "old school Windows feel."

@bnrstnr said in Which hosts belong in what pool when running local storage?:

@DustinB3403 said in Which hosts belong in what pool when running local storage?:

Which allows your VMs to just move when needed and not ever have to be touched by hand.

I've never tried this, but do you need shared storage for this?

Should not. It's like "Storage vMotion" when the storage is not shared.

@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Welcome @JasonMinard

Greetings! So many newbies this week. That's great.

Sounds like cars in Canada is way too complex.

What would MSPs do in a situation like this? It must be case by case, but do you pay the ransom and hope that the data really gets unlocked? That's a huge risk.

If they have good backups and processes, hopefully they don't need to pay the ransom. But it doesn't sound like they do if they have been down for so long and are not progressing yet.

Try DHCPing.