Windows licensing uses "duck rules" meaning... if it looks like a duck and acts like a duck, it's a duck. If it looks like a server or acts like a server, it's a server.

If anyone refers to the Avimark installation as a server, that pretty much answers it.

@scottalanmiller
Analogy: I crash car into a tree, blame mechanic.

India blacks out Internet for Punjab for fourth straight day:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/20/india/india-separatist-manhunt-internet-shutdown-intl-hnk/index.html

27 million people in Internet blackout.

@pmoncho said in Beelink PC issues:

@scottalanmiller said in Beelink PC issues:

@pmoncho said in Beelink PC issues:

@scottalanmiller said in Beelink PC issues:

@JaredBusch said in Beelink PC issues:

@stacksofplates said in Beelink PC issues:

I've bought a couple of the micro form factor Optiplex computers (9020) and have been happy with them. You couldn't have saved too much by buying something like this I can't imagine? I think I paid $250 for the last one and it came with 8GB RAM, an i7, and a 250GB SSD.

This? Yeah, it does not compare, except price.
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Wow, that can't be worth $40 new, but $240 used? What the heck?

It should be worth $40 and my guess for the higher price is economics. It was built well and keep on chugging along. It seems they are continually in demand for a basic pc that needs just a web browser or to act as a kiosk.

Yes, but you can get brand new with much more performance for that price. Why get something that is a decade old, AND used when new and new is possible? Much less flexible. And can that unit even run current Windows?

Because it keeps chugging along and fulfilling the purpose it was intended. If @stacksofplates doesn't have to do anything to it for 2-3 years other than updates and/or deal with any issues @Dashrender is having, then it could be worth the money.

It seems, based on this thread, the issues @Dashrender is having with the more powerfull/lower cost Beelinks are becoming more expensive than if he just paid $550 for a Dell Optiplex 5070 micro. I cannot be sure as only @Dashrender knows the true cost and if the Beelink's are working out better.

I like products that fulfill the purpose and require less maintenance. If that is Beelink or a new $1200 OptiPlex 5090 micro, count me in.

I guess it comes down to the old axiom, "Price is what you pay, value is what you get!"

Gotta remember that we've all had Dell, HP and others be dead on arrival, too. Even in large batches. Anyone remember all those Dell laptops with bad capacitors that they shipped out? I ran the teams that had to go to client sites to replace them (I ran Dell support organizations.) The difference, for sure, was with Dell the customers had purchased long, extensive warranties and everything was on Dell to replace (and they did, normally.)

But you really have to compare bigger scope. That this is his first try with Beelink is concerning, for sure. It's not a good sign. And only a 30 day "warranty" is worrisome, too. It's good for me, because we often ship to places where warranties aren't honored anyway so paying for one is a loss.

But every vendor has issues, from time to time. So you have to be careful with extrapolating a lot of decision from a single datum.

@ITivan80 said in Who speaks other languages?:

I am bilingual English/Spanish. I was trying to learn Russian the other day

Since the time that this thread was originally posted, I learned Italian and then Spanish. I've mostly lost the Italian, but I speak Spanish every day now.

I don't think that you can do workdrive backups in general as it is not file based and you don't have database access.

@srsmith Sorry, I never saw this thread. In this case, the first thing that I'd do is consider ripping everything out and going with something better suited (we presume) that you can manage yourself. Cisco is a red flag product, generally sold by VARs pretending to be MSPs to lock you into high cost support needs, licensing contracts, and to sell scams like SD-WAN (generally all they are selling is a VPN that they brand as something else). Things you can generally do BETTER for next to nothing yourself, with less effort. If you DO need someone to do it for you, an ITSP will normally handle all of this for peanuts and provide the expertise your team needs to be able to ask networking and security questions, without being sales people pushing bad products to make you need more support.

Rip and replace is almost always the answer in this kind of scenario. In the end you don't want to end up with Cisco gear or an SD-WAN or some remotely managed network that can extort you. If you need management of your networking, have them manage YOUR networking. Don't make a vendor own part of your company network, that's a terrible idea.

@Matthew-Grieve said in How to Backup Patterson Dental EagleSoft Software:

https://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.help.sqlanywhere.12.0.1/dbadmin/da-backup-dbs-5615940.html

SQL Anywhere Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
SQL Anywhere is compatible with the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). You can use VSS to create point-in-time snapshots of entire disk volumes or volume sets and to make copies of files that are open for exclusive use by applications such as the SQL Anywhere database server. VSS is supported on 32-bit Windows XP operating systems and on 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 2003 and later operating systems, including Windows Vista.

By default, all SQL Anywhere databases can use the VSS service for backups if the SQL Anywhere VSS writer (dbvss12.exe) is running. You can use VSS without the SQL Anywhere VSS writer to back up databases. However, you might need to use the full SQL Anywhere recovery procedures to restore those databases. To prevent a database server from participating in the VSS service, include -vss- when starting the database server. Alternatively, you can use the Service utility (dbsvc) for Windows to specify when the VSS service is started.

How VSS works with SQL Anywhere:

Your backup application sends a command to VSS to take a snapshot.

VSS issues an identify command to the SQL Anywhere VSS writer (dbvss12.exe).

VSS issues a prepare to snapshot command to suspend all transactions and write all modified pages to disk on all databases on all database servers. If transactions are not suspended on a database within 10 seconds, the snapshot might contain uncommitted transactions and full recovery may be necessary.

VSS issues a freeze command to checkpoint and then suspend all activity on all databases on all database servers. Each SQL Anywhere database server waits a maximum of 60 seconds for all databases to suspend all activity. Typically, this process takes a few seconds.

VSS issues a thaw command to the SQL Anywhere VSS writer to resume all transactions on all databases on all database servers.

In rare circumstances, SQL Anywhere might be unable to suspend transactions or complete a checkpoint within the maximum time allowed by VSS. If this occurs, you must use the transaction log file and the full recovery process to recover the backed up database.

We use StorageCraft ShadowProtect with ImageManager to take hourly incrementals of our clients server volumes. Never had any issues.

That's true when you have SQL Anywhere running as a service. But when embedded, there is nowhere for the VSS to link against. Are you sure that this process will work with EagleSoft and their implementation of SQL Anywhere? I know that a full blown SQL Anywhere can do it. But that's not the issue here.

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 2022 Disk Defrag Freezing System:

@Obsolesce said in Windows 2022 Disk Defrag Freezing System:

You should never Defrag SSDs except for very specific reasons.

Which is why it is surprising that in the SSD era, Windows 2022 has it on by default.

Has Microsoft changed how they handle TRIM yet? I know years ago they only ran TRIM when defrag was run. Why? Because Microsoft is still that bad at managing storage.

A few years ago I met a bit bitdefender.
Leaving aside the antivirus part.
You can control mobile devices of iOS and Android users, block websites, lock screen and remote wipe.
Also in windows you can block websites etc.

For the corporate version, the licenses are for devices and have a centralized administration console, you can select cloud at no cost or on-premise.

For something so small I also think a family or small business license can work but in this case you should install the additional parental control application.

@jt1001001 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

I don't' have any specific product but Atto Technologies comes to mind to look at for something like this.

They make pieces for building a serious enterprise scale media workflow like HBAs and iSCSI options for MacOS. Their focus is specialty high performance Mac hardware. I don't think that they offer any solutions, but they have nice components and some software.