@ricedg
Forum Replies Created
-
AuthorPosts
-
Could be. I’ve been using Drive here and a few places. Most of my SMBs are still using mapped drives.
Synology’s C2 service is just another destination in a Hyper Backup task. You need to create a C2 account first, there’s a 30 day free trial.
Hyper Backup guide here, video guide here that uses C2 as an example. It’s all pretty straightforward but explains the various options, like smart versioning.
It will default to BTRFS and SHR.
I use VMM for my PiHole / DHCP server, Docker is probably better but I can’t get my head around it.
Photo indexing / thumbnail creation is a lot faster than with the ARM CPUs but still takes a while. Mind you I did dump 30GB on it in one go. The upload process to Moments is a lot easier than Photo Station, more like every other photo app out there.
Linux installed. The Phenom with Xubuntu on a 128GB SSD would have been described as snappy before NVMe :wacko:
Xubuntu is fine, covers all the basics and more. Found all my network printers and server shares on it’s own. Reminds me of when I used Puppy a lot, it always was the best at networking stuff and the tools haven’t changed much, just look a bit smarter.
I have the DS218+ and so does a customer. The Active Backup for Business really does the job and BTRFS global deduplication is currently running at 3x. 4TB of backups (2 x daily bare metal incremental, PCs have 2TB drives) is taking up only 1.3TB. The restore process is very easy too, it has been used in anger.
I’m using Moments to organize the photos and the face recognition / places / locations works amazingly well. I didn’t get on with MS Active Directory though and have now discounted it as a cheap way to do a Domain (365 for Business bought from MS is the way to do that with Azure AD).
I had no problems using a third party 8GB Sodimm to take the ram out to 10GB. It does use 2.3GB in everyday tasks, 1GB of that is the VMs. 7GB is being used to cache *something* and there is no swap. The customer has left his at 2GB though and it seems to run just as fast. I suspect that like Windows it makes some sort of use of whatever it can get it’s hand on just in case.
Bloody Adobe! Prime example of a near monopoly player in action. Did they not test it?
Synology are really pushing at Pro Snappers as BTRFS being self healing protects against bit-rot. Backup to an external drive or another Synology is easy and there’s a cheap offsite cloud backup service available. Modern HDDs are huge, a 2 bay would do most people these days never mind a 4 or 6.
You can also create shareable albums and use it as a download portal by giving customers a protected personal url to their folder. This can be restrict to X number of downloads and / or a date range. A surveyor I support does just this and it’s saved them a fortune in email costs (no more huge attachments in the archive). “Here’s the link to your survey, you have 30 days to download it and you can do this twice.”
That’s got more ram and the same storage as the two PCs I’ve just built! Cost a bit more too.
You won’t fit mine in your pocket though.
If it needs a main socket then you’re into the same sort of costs as the Terramaster, even a SATA enclosure is that sort of £.
With regards external USBs, I use them for local Synology backups. No problems with Toshiba and Maxtor 1 & 2 TB (Canvio basics are my go to) but I’ve had two 4TB Seagates fail on me after 15 months. It was a chunky case and felt like it had 2 x drives in it.
EDIT – I’ll see if I can find the 4TB and get it opened up.
Watch those headline speeds, that’s with SSHD drives so there’s caching taking place AND its RAID 0!
Regular HDDs and RAID 1 you’ll be no faster than a cheap Synology over Gigabit.
Very true. Get Broadbandbuyer to set it up for you. If you add a device later they will add it to the existing site. After the free three years it’s a couple of quid a year.
I can’t remember what they do about naming SSIDs but that’s easy to change on the controller anyway. Everything works on a site basis not a device basis, so when you change the site configuration the controller provisions the devices automatically with the new details. If a device is offline it gets changed next time it’s seen.
The devices send loads of (near) real time data to the controller (as it’s text it’s tiny in size) and you can see exactly what the clients are experiencing. If there is a firmware update for a device it will let you know and you can roll out to the whole site with one click. I check every couple of weeks.
If the controller loses sight of a device you will be emailed. If there are any glaring issues on a site the controller will flag them up and offer resolutions. It’s a different world.
One of the comments that I totally agree with:
The fundamental problem is lack of robustness at the victim end. Ransomware (like any other attack that typically starts at the workstation) only gets to affect a corporation because it can spread internally. There are many controls that can in principle contribute to restricting its spread, but they’re just not usually implemented.
Most corporate networks are wide open: a hard-ish shell full of holes surrounding an ultra- soft centre.
Sometimes there isn’t a great deal you can do about that, especially in a smaller business, but that’s where unlinked backups come in. Synology makes unlinking backups easy and having linked (live) data protected by a versioning system. Encrypt a file? Go back to the last version. Too many? Restore last nights local backup. They (somehow) got that too? Restore last nights offsite backup and pick out any urgent files / folders to any PC anywhere via a browser.
I also use AV designed for small businesses, not home products. Even McAfee have got their act together, but BitDefender is my favourite.
Cheers Keith, they are stupidly quick but you soon get used to it 😄
TBH I’m looking forward to seeing how his old Phenom x4 with a new SSD runs a lightweight Ubuntu. I’ll bet it’s going to be almost as snappy but we’ll see.
That’s not really a backup then. Sloppy. They should have defences looking for this sort of activity too, it can be stopped before it does untold damage.
Ransomware can have a pop at any of the businesses I look after, they won’t get anywhere besides being a temporary PITA if it even gets to activate. If I can do it on a shoestring then Canon have no excuses.
That was too much hard going but I get the drift, it’s so good the only competition is AMD so we’ll have to wait.
Built the Ryzen 5’s today. Still amazes me how fast they are with an NVMe. It’s currently copying from 2 x USB drives, one of which is USB3, to the spinner and installing Office 2019 on the SSD. Not breaking sweat.
Sounds like sloppy planning to me. First rule make sure it’s backed up!
I suspect they worked on live data. In any event they had no backups which would have negated any Ransomware attack too.
“Bleeping Computer was eventually able to get their hands on a partial screenshot of the alleged Canon ransom note” there is absolutely nothing to tie that to anyone, it’s just the generic text. In fact they could have typed it themselves in Notepad.
10GB long term storage – 10GB? Do me a favour. Even 10TB seems light. One of my customers just bought a 14TB server for his small business.
The “Message from the IT Service Center” doesn’t look like the sort of thing a Corporate IT Dept puts out. You most certainly would not put a Confirm Receipt button on it. What system is it using if everything is out? Neither does the internal message from the “Crisis Management Committee”. The internal server error message means nothing.
Sounds like speculation and a deal of making up the evidence.
Can’t seem to edit the original post. The TP-Link wall units are 10/100 mbps. Not necessarily a deal breaker though. The Ubiquiti are gigabit. Both need a POE switch like this
I have a small 6U cabinet and the spiders don’t seem to like it. To think of it I’ve never found any in any customers cabinets either. However the little b@st@rds love CCTV cameras.
OK, a kill two birds with one stone product: the wall port with Ethernet and Wifi
Ubiquiti with a free cloud controller and set up link
TP-Link EAP225-Wall Omada AC1200 free software but needs a host PC link
Both only need a single Ethernet cable. I will be using the Ubiquiti in a new project for a mates physio clinic refurb, but the Omada dedicated controller is quite reasonable so…
I’m starting to see lots of AMD NUC units appearing in my FB feed. To be fair Intel have upped their game too but in true Intel fashion the 8th Gen i3 U is better than the 10th. The 4500U still wins out at the price point vs the i5 U.
3400G, the 4650 would be well OTT with 6 cores 12 threads. I can’t find any for sale anyway. B550 motherboards aren’t too silly prices though.
CCL still have some Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz 8 / 16 left at £185 and a bundle with a Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE and 16GB for £320. I built a games machine around the bundle for my best man’s son at Christmas. Very nice.
-
AuthorPosts