I am not sure I should be chiming in here,.. since I feel that I'm in the latter stages of the twilight part of my IT career... As much as I am still interested in Tech and IT,.. With all that has happened over the last 10-5 years so much of it is beyond me.
As a sole IT tech in a Non Profit operation, I could see options in Firewall, VPN, Mesh network, Wi-Fi, digital security and such; but on a level that a AIO Tech could comprehend...
<wishes he could contribute,.. but after 25 years still considers himself a understudy>
Does anyone remember the IBM Memo that went along with that TBF?
Not sure I want to search for it,.. but it was rather humorous,...
Considering the planning I need to do,.. I might be as well.
Not sure if it will qualify since the 'tool' is a website generated installer.
Click to create an installer/updater that skips all the <next> and toolbar and extra stuff on programs.
@JaredBusch said:
I never use this view, so I had not noticed it. When I go to a category, I see the same. Issue makes sense now.
What view are you using? didn't know there was more than what I was seeing...
@scottalanmiller
Yes,.. FIPS is required. I don't have the grant / digital requirements off hand. But I think it was FIPS 140-2
Using a recording of my kids seeing commercials on TV
"I want that"
@scottalanmiller said:
@g.jacobse said:
I had some impression that TC wasn't FIPs compliant and therefore not 'usable'.... I could be very wrong in that understanding.
I doubt that it was because someone would likely have to pay for that, but FIPS doesn't impact much of anyone. Some government agencies but security is not their goal, supporting their paying vendors is. So it is a very different thing that "is it secure." But in the SMB, TC is extremely secure and very usable - and now CS takes on that legacy.
@scottalanmiller - the thing for us is that as a Non Profit dealing with HIPPA and other private data, we are governed under some of those 'laws'. We havea Clinic, Housing assistance, Veterans program, and energy assistance program. All of these take in private data.
I've used TC for a few years,.. love the product but never gone FDE (full disk encryption) with it.
I see that the forum has been upgraded,..
Interestingly enough, topic relpies are all over the place in the ordering...Is it just my browser or does any one else see this?
@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
Its not that it was taken over by someone else. It is that its no longer secure
No, that is completely incorrect. It is NOT insecure, that was propaganda. It WAS taken over by someone else and determined to be more secure than ever. That is pure FUD and there was no truth behind the claims.
The entire bases of the claim of insecurity was purely that it was no longer supported - a claim that also was not true. It was supported again immediately and ongoing audits continued.
I had some impression that TC wasn't FIPs compliant and therefore not 'usable'.... I could be very wrong in that understanding.
<waves>
There it goes.... be a few days before I hear back I"m sure... I hope to have better news.
Thank you for the suggestions on the process. I know may have done a recovery,.. I haven't had to.
@scottalanmiller said:
There is always the "put it in the freezer" method.
Would you admit you tried? 
Over all I believe I fall into the Generalist field,.. but lean towards Specialist in some areas like desktops.
Not only can I build a server, clone a desktop, build a website - I have been a event clean up technician (okay,.. dishwasher) Office space technician (aka grunt) and more.
I've put a hand on a number of things over the years...
Other than Ontrack and DriveSavers - Who would you suggest as a drive recovery vendor.
@Hubtech said:
I get that this is frustrating, and i'm sure that there is much more going on, but dont let it get to you like this. The best you can do is document to whomever you report to that you think changes should be made, explain why you think these changes should be made, and also explain what a failure cold "cost" the company. I agree this is not the way network shares SHOULD be handled. What size is this business? how many employees? how much profit lost if one of these drive should fail? How long would you guys be "out" if a drive failed?
Yes it is very frustrating. I don't know of any IT person that would just toss stuff together like this was done. It is the worst example of what a 'IT' person could do. I mean really?
Change have been stated needed to be made. Consolidation, replication, and off site backups. And they are good with them. They know things need to be changed - My case was made exactly one year ago today ... Happy 1 year anniversary....
We are a Non Profit, about 300 people across 9 counties. Everyone is pretty much stand alone - some shares are on server class boxes, but the majority is desktop based with an external drive in some capacity. Of course, I have a server that was built with JUST.ONE.DRIVE! REALLY?? I mean WT* I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed,.. but ... I just don't have words to express (well I do,.. but I'm also trying to be professional about this...)
I'm looking at recovery options outside of the office... nothing I can do with it.
@Hubtech said:
i'd love to come in and fix what ails ya
I want to fix it too.. It can be done,... and I know that once it's put right that it WILL be more manageable.
@scottalanmiller said:
Start looking but don't quit yet. See what is out there.
I'd like to not leave,.. but at this point I'm overwhelmed. I know it's a 'How do you eat a elephant?' type thing,.. but in this case it's almost as if the elephant is sitting on me. We all have had (at least I would wager) tough spots... And we manage through.
@thecreativeone91 said:
Contact @Minion-Queen and get NTG to come to the rescue!
Another Question begs to be asked? Is there some kind of brand or model of HDD you are using that are failing so much? are you not replacing them with 3 years? is the not enough cooling, or moisture that could be causing it? I'm curious cause you sound like you have a lot of harddrive failures and while of course it will fail at some point, I honestly haven't had too many drives die during use - especially in servers.
It's not so much as there are so many drives that are failing... it's how this are arranged. You JUST don't used a external USB hard drive as a network share. You just don't - double that in a business environment. When you do, you are saying that you WANT to cause your organization misery but creating multiple failure points that YOU have to then fix - and risk failure of not just the HDD,.. but the organization as a whole.
This drive is a simple WD My Book Essential. Single Drive,.. connected to a Desktop,..doing what a Server and disk array in RAID configuration should be doing. And this was one of four that I have counted.
@Dashrender You can't order from Mirco?
Damn - had the impression I could order from them and ship.. even still,.. the added $35 isn't a deal killer.
@g.jacobse
Guess it was bound to happen.. got hit with the post bug.. Yay me.
