What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to figure out if I should convince my School coordinator to let me graduate in May.
Fingers crossed.
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@Dominica is making our third round of coffee now.
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getting errors uploading pictures????
{/path ...... faile to connect to DB}
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Same here. Looks like maybe Imgur is having an issue. I've never seen that error before
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Their status page says that things are okay. Hmmm....
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playing with my Pi again
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Working again.
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Our new desk just arrived.
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Caught a ride to the "office" today. Way faster than walking.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Caught a ride to the "office" today. Way faster than walking.
Serving tray down the stairs?
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Caught a ride to the "office" today. Way faster than walking.
Serving tray down the stairs?
That would be pretty scary to do, we are living in a Soviet era block apartment.
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Now context is lost. Nick k modded my last comment
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@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Now context is lost. Nick k modded my last comment
Oh, what was the context before?
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Why do companies pay so much for IT staff, but refuse to pay anything to have running systems or backups?
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1983538-walking-into-a-nightmare
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Not kidding.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why do companies pay so much for IT staff, but refuse to pay anything to have running systems or backups?
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1983538-walking-into-a-nightmare
Snapshots are not backups. They're "moment in time" captures of the server that allows rollback in case a patch or an upgrade goes wrong. If the vm dies due to disk corruption or a host failure, and your "backups" are nothing more than snapshots, you're out of luck. More, keeping snapshots around longer than necessary burns disk space and will slow performance over time. The longer the snapshot history, the more disk space you'll use and the worse performance will get.
I love statements like this that completely ignore the fact that there is more than one type of snapshot. COW is different from AOW/ROW. Snapshots can be backups if you export them. And this seems to ignore the fact you can do file level restores from snapshots.
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why do companies pay so much for IT staff, but refuse to pay anything to have running systems or backups?
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1983538-walking-into-a-nightmare
Snapshots are not backups. They're "moment in time" captures of the server that allows rollback in case a patch or an upgrade goes wrong. If the vm dies due to disk corruption or a host failure, and your "backups" are nothing more than snapshots, you're out of luck. More, keeping snapshots around longer than necessary burns disk space and will slow performance over time. The longer the snapshot history, the more disk space you'll use and the worse performance will get.
I love statements like this that completely ignore the fact that there is more than one type of snapshot. COW is different from AOW/ROW. Snapshots can be backups if you export them. And this seems to ignore the fact you can do file level restores from snapshots.
If you're exporting snapshots then they become backups. I don't see the issue with the statement. That's generally how VM level backups work they take a snapshot of the VM and export it to a different storage device.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why do companies pay so much for IT staff, but refuse to pay anything to have running systems or backups?
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1983538-walking-into-a-nightmare
Step1: Look for a new gig.
Step2: Look for a new gig. -
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why do companies pay so much for IT staff, but refuse to pay anything to have running systems or backups?
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1983538-walking-into-a-nightmare
Snapshots are not backups. They're "moment in time" captures of the server that allows rollback in case a patch or an upgrade goes wrong. If the vm dies due to disk corruption or a host failure, and your "backups" are nothing more than snapshots, you're out of luck. More, keeping snapshots around longer than necessary burns disk space and will slow performance over time. The longer the snapshot history, the more disk space you'll use and the worse performance will get.
I love statements like this that completely ignore the fact that there is more than one type of snapshot. COW is different from AOW/ROW. Snapshots can be backups if you export them. And this seems to ignore the fact you can do file level restores from snapshots.
But, it is important to recognize, that it is the action of exporting and decoupling that makes it a backup, that it started life as a snapshot isn't a factor. Snapshots aren't backups is a true statements. Just like copies are not backups. But you can copy something in the process of making a backup.
