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I just run Backblaze on anything important. I used to run RAID1 on my OS drive mostly to avoid the hassle of having to reinstall, but didn't go for it on this setup.
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Ursine Asylum posted:I've always wondered what people could possibly have that they need RAID arrays at home. Lots and lots of bulk media storage. You would be god damned astonished how much storage space you can chew through with HD video. Raw HD video averages ~10GB/minute, and if you have 30+ hours of video for a project, it quickly becomes a retardedly large collection of files. Even with compressed HD video, you still run into issues with trying to find a place to store all 4+ TB of working files. I've seen 30TB DAS boxes hooked up to high end final cut pro workstations to work on a 4k TV ad. Photos taken in RAW with a 35mm sensor average like 50-70MB a piece, and you can take over a thousand photos a day if you're really cranking at it. 20-50 GB/day of photos adds up in a hilarious hurry, and the very second you decide you don't want/need it anymore, you desperately need it after all. Even people with large internet sourced media collections have probably spent a lot of time sourcing, sorting, and archiving things to the point where a total loss would be hundreds or thousands of hours of redownloading material, if the material is even available anymore. In the end it's a cost/effort tradeoff for a lot of people. A lot of my stuff is photo/video I've done that's more or less not replaceable, and there aren't really any good cloud storage options. For the cost of 3 months of high speed internet (1 gig symmetric fiber) needed to glacier all my crap, I put together a hobo-SAN that stores all of my stuff in a RAIDZ2 array, gets crammed to tape quarterly or thereabouts, and restores a lot faster than I'd be able to over the internet in case of a failure.
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May 28, 2015 12:44
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Wibla posted:I don't see the problem with a setup like that as long as you use drives rated for server/raid use. But don't even consider using anything less than RAID6 for storage. Two parity drives decrease the risk of data loss by orders of magnitude compared to having one parity drive. Yup. Old MD1000 array being used to store acronis images and we'll use the rest as general fileserver for IT and a scratch drive for whatever else. Everything is backed up. We have more disk space dedicated to that than anything else. My predecessor had a thing for RAID5 and our newest DPM (backup) servers are 24 1.2TB 10k SAS in four 6 Disk RAID5's. The only other configurations I've found are 1's for OS drives, and 10's on controllers that didn't support 5. At least there aren't any 5's larger than 6 disks. Two weeks ago, I restarted a server to reinstall the OS, and the wrong two drives decided to die on the reboot out and killed the array.
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May 28, 2015 13:18
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The only thing I really care about at home are my archive of old documents and photos, but since I have CrashPlan's "Family Unlimited" subscription I just back up everything in sight. Also: Crashplan needs a referral service. I'd never have to pay for backup again with all the people I've convinced to try it out (usually after losing all their family photos, but them's the brakes)
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May 28, 2015 13:33
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^^I am just trying out Crashplan for the family as well. So far its pretty neat  How come some users cant seem to comprehend that IT doesnt automatically get to decide how something is set up. So go bitch at your boss instead like I have told you a million times by now because I am not allowed to change it without approval 
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May 28, 2015 14:10
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Ursine Asylum posted:I've always wondered what people could possibly have that they need RAID arrays at home. HD media which is code for porn, anime and every episode of Lost
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May 28, 2015 14:44
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"Hey [project janitor], [coworker] needs help finishing his project-- we're going to need you to call each of the 80 users, get their password, then login to the new RDS hosts as them and install some software." This was a serious request. On a similar note, I'm scared to recommend that we should actually implement group policy for our clients because I'll be handed the task of doing it for all 100+ environments. Yeah, that's right... most of our clients have no group policy or policies configured in 2008. Things are bad.
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May 28, 2015 16:21
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dox posted:"Hey [project janitor], [coworker] needs help finishing his project-- we're going to need you to call each of the 80 users, get their password, then login to the new RDS hosts as them and install some software." Couldn't you just mass roll out the software using PDQ Deploy or something similar? How does a company get that big without automating things. So many wasted man hours.
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May 28, 2015 16:39
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m.hache posted:Couldn't you just mass roll out the software using PDQ Deploy or something similar? How does a company get that big without automating things. Yes you could. The types of people who want you to call 80 users and ask for password to install software as them isn't going to like another solution though.
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May 28, 2015 16:47
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Sickening posted:Yes you could. The types of people who want you to call 80 users and ask for password to install software as them isn't going to like another solution though. How are we going to give the users the WHITE GLOVE SERVICE they expect if we don't call them all? And how are we going to be sure the install works if we automate it?!
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May 28, 2015 16:53
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Crowley posted:The only thing I really care about at home are my archive of old documents and photos, but since I have CrashPlan's "Family Unlimited" subscription I just back up everything in sight. Crashplan is the tits. I have 2TB backed up and it has saved my rear end a couple of times now.
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May 28, 2015 18:30
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Sickening posted:Yes you could. The types of people who want you to call 80 users and ask for password to install software as them isn't going to like another solution though. Not to mention it sets a lovely expectation for your clients. Nothing like getting them used to giving up their passwords over the phone.
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May 28, 2015 19:09
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Update: since the most recent version of TrueCrypt is insecure, my boss is having us install an older version of TrueCrypt. On Windows 7 on a Bootcamped MacBook Air 
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May 28, 2015 19:43
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beepsandboops posted:Update: since the most recent version of TrueCrypt is insecure, my boss is having us install an older version of TrueCrypt. On Windows 7 on a Bootcamped MacBook Air Jesus Christ, there's nothing really wrong with the current version. It's fine to use for general stuff. There's an interesting story behind that proclimation, but seriosuly, its fine for anything that isn't top-secret government level stuff. EDIT: Some sources: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/77197/is-truecrypt-still-safe http://steve.grc.com/2014/05/30/yes-virginia-truecrypt-is-still-safe-to-use/
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May 28, 2015 19:59
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Harry Lime posted:Who in the gently caress thought a RAID 5 array of 10 1TB SATA 7.2K drives was a good idea. The array is now 43 hours into the rebuild and it's only 70% done. Bonus points, this array is split into 5 logical drives, one of which is C:\... Bonus points round 2, it's their backup media server which also houses the backup software config db. I can't quote the number of times I've seen that before (short bonus point 2). And this is from something internal as well, when it's documented to not do that. I mean, I get why you can do that - it's designed for old OSes that can't handle being installed onto a GPT partition, but people use it for logical slicing and wonder why it starts failing. (The RAID controller trying to right to different parts of the same drive, getting a busy signal sometimes, leading to the RAID controller going *THIS DRIVE HAS ISSUES* when it doesn't..., leading to RAID failures...)
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May 28, 2015 20:14
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The answer to encryption on a not-Mac is "use a version of Windows that has Bitlocker".
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Thanks Ants posted:The answer to encryption on a not-Mac is "use a version of Windows that has Bitlocker".
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m.hache posted:Couldn't you just mass roll out the software using PDQ Deploy or something similar? How does a company get that big without automating things. Probably, but that would require some sort of effort. The best part is I'm not given any details on the software or what is required until the day of, presumably to make sure I do it manually.
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May 28, 2015 20:33
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Yesterday I had to ask one of the T2 guys about whether one of our systems I don't have access to was backed up. He said no, asked me which ticket I was looking at, and then asked for me to escalate it to him. Later that day, he sends out an email with new troubleshooting steps for T1. Today, I find out that when prompted for the reason for this email, he said it was that I hadn't done enough troubleshooting on that ticket. gently caress you, buddy. Now I learn that even here, I have to document why I escalate stuff to cover my rear end from people who ask me to stop working on a ticket, and then blame me for not doing enough.
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May 28, 2015 21:29
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I think this is more relief than than being pissed; the MD came by and gave me a "Yeah just do it" to order a new server... which we needed months ago. I can't remember the current specs off the top of my head, but we have; Server1: (Single Xeon something, 32Gb Ram, 2Tb RAID unknown) - Domain Controller (Server 2008 R2 + Small Business Server 2011) - E-mail (Exchange 2010) - Database (MS SQL 2008, Powers direct debit software) Server2: (Single Xeon something, ?Gb Ram) - Terminal Services - Spiceworks Yep... thank loving lord because this week EVERYTHING has practically ground to a halt with everyone freaking out. New server will have two Xeons, 64Gb RAM and RAID10 10k SAS drives, and of course will be properly loving virtualised so we don't have a goddamn database on the DC. 
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May 28, 2015 22:03
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ssd everything
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May 28, 2015 22:04
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Lightning Jim posted:Things pissing me off: I feel like you should make an effort to transition roles within a company AND OUT to other companies from time to time. Even just to show you're serious. Also, generally people hire replacement workers to do their own job and then they are promoted to managing that person.
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May 28, 2015 22:22
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for me. I would at least be given to apply for other positions internally (lateral movement at least) but otherwise I'd possibly be laid off.
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I don't know how to feel about my boss. He has this weird habit of double checking all of my work when there is an emergency or highly visible issue. For example we had a printer go down with a bad nic card. I explain this to him, tell him am calling the vendor, and he then grills me on my troubleshooting and spend an hour looking at it himself. Turns out he thinks it is the nic card and calls the vendor.
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May 28, 2015 22:47
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go3 posted:ssd everything And vSan. Unf!
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May 28, 2015 23:17
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jim truds posted:I don't know how to feel about my boss. He has this weird habit of double checking all of my work when there is an emergency or highly visible issue. For example we had a printer go down with a bad nic card. I explain this to him, tell him am calling the vendor, and he then grills me on my troubleshooting and spend an hour looking at it himself. Turns out he thinks it is the nic card and calls the vendor. With any luck, he'll pick up on your skillset and start to trust you. If he's new to his position, highly visible items are potentially make or break for his career. A 2 hour delay is much less damaging than telling the client all is well when it's not.
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May 28, 2015 23:42
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Super Slash posted:I think this is more relief than than being pissed; the MD came by and gave me a "Yeah just do it" to order a new server... which we needed months ago. That means you got shared storage and you're gonna re-use this servers to make stuff highly available, right? Not just virtualizing it on the new one?
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I finally got to replace my ancient and lovely HP Probook 6555...with a 3 year old Lenovo W520. At least its a huge jump in specs, I get a usable screen and an i7. I'm glad I had a spare 128gig SSD though, I'm not ever going back to a platter drive if I can help it. I brought these machines back when I was cleaning out old equipment at a branch, and thought that since they were old and used, we'd sell/give them to employees. Not to make my manager look like a hero for not spending money. Its such a petty thing really, and I know it. But I find it kind of insulting to be issued old equipment and be expected to be excited about it.
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May 29, 2015 04:14
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baquerd posted:With any luck, he'll pick up on your skillset and start to trust you. If he's new to his position, highly visible items are potentially make or break for his career. A 2 hour delay is much less damaging than telling the client all is well when it's not. Yeah, he is new to the position and he does it to everyone. It just irks me and try not to take it personally. I just hope that eventually he will realize we keep coming to the same solutions.
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May 29, 2015 04:26
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jim truds posted:Yeah, he is new to the position and he does it to everyone. It just irks me and try not to take it personally. I just hope that eventually he will realize we keep coming to the same solutions. "Why do we even have this guy? I'm always the one who has to fix these things!"
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May 29, 2015 09:02
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poo poo pissing me off today: Phones. And people who refuse to turn the goddamn sound off on their phones while in an open office. Argh. I don't mind people talking on the phone, but could you please turn off the audio alerts for mails? Pretty please with a cherry on top?
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May 29, 2015 12:45
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Wibla posted:poo poo pissing me off today: Phones. And people who refuse to turn the goddamn sound off on their phones while in an open office. Argh. I don't mind people talking on the phone, but could you please turn off the audio alerts for mails? Pretty please with a cherry on top? But how will everyone appreciate my $(pop culture quote) notification sound if it's on silent? 
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May 29, 2015 14:43
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Ursine Asylum posted:But how will everyone appreciate my $(pop culture quote) notification sound if it's on silent? I use the Metal Gear Solid codec noise, and you had better appreciate it!
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Inspector_666 posted:I use the Metal Gear Solid codec noise, and you had better appreciate it! I've had these sounds on my phone for a couple of years now, just for the pleasure of being able to mute it.
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May 29, 2015 14:58
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Ursine Asylum posted:I've had these sounds on my phone for a couple of years now, just for the pleasure of being able to mute it. Ugh, a guy I work with had those sounds for a day and it sounded like there was a baby in the office and I was not having any of it.
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May 29, 2015 15:03
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We all got new phones from work in our small office and we all left the default sounds on and it was annoying and we all hated it but nobody changed it because it also annoyed the others.
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May 29, 2015 15:11
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Ursine Asylum posted:But how will everyone appreciate my $(pop culture quote) notification sound if it's on silent? Colleague once put a 'hilarious' hard core porn female orgasm sound on his phone. Very funny in the bar with his chums. Not so funny the next day when he left it on his desk on the loudest setting in a room full of women while he went to the toilet.
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May 29, 2015 15:25
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spog posted:Colleague once put a 'hilarious' hard core porn female orgasm sound on his phone. Now it was pretty funny again. Full circle.
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May 29, 2015 15:36
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The best is when you change the sound and setting on someones phone. Next time they get a call the phone just screams "ANUS!" over and over as the owner fumbles with it. Yes I am a child.
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A coworker decided that we don't need to test our images when we make modifications, he's just THAT good. Lo and behold, after adding IE10 to the image the entire task sequence shits itself. How is this possible? Turns out MDT has an issue with one of the specialize component modifiers in Unattend.xml, causing the entire process to grind to a halt whenever it tries to manipulate that setting. He struggled to find the answer to this for two days, but somehow I managed to find the problem after 5 minutes of Googling. I'm feeling incredibly frustrated.
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poo poo pissing me off: Michigan will have to wait until August. 
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