Posts made by JaredBusch

@whitecat said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

small, not-for-profit corporation

Worst type of organizations in the US.....

@JasGot said in Going from Active Directory Domain to workgroup?:

(and thanks for staying on topic!)

Save this...

Good way to make me not care about answering you.

@pmoncho said in Who's making the move to vSphere 8:

Don't know if it is just me, but it seem BOSS card pricing has jumped rather high as compared to other server component prices??????

Since the 2020 chip shortages, and they have not gone down.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Forgot how long it takes Vultr to take a snapshot

@WLS-ITGuy said in Who's making the move to vSphere 8:

Anyone else considering the move?

I no longer have anything on vSphere at any client, so no.

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

If an employee has a good hunch they will not be paid, they might as well go on vacation for two weeks, come back for a day and then walk out a day before starting their new job. --- Seen this happen in the last few years.

Most people have to get PTO approved by their manager. So suddenly taking a few weeks off will not likely be approved.

@dafyre said in 1 large disk or 2 smaller disks for a file server?:

We just built a new Samba file server here

Question, what authentication method are you using? I'm debating this at a client now.

Just told a customer that it is all gone.

In reference to their mission critical B2C system.
They were running it on a refurb Lenovo desktop that they bought from MicroCenter 2 years ago.
No backup software for the application or desktop as a whole in use.

Dead SSD is Dead. Sorry, not sorry. The last update in ScreenConnect showed these stats.

Operating System:Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (10.0.19044) (en-US)
Processor(s):Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 virtual) (X64)
Available Memory:11004 MB / 16296 MB

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Too many to quote using the phone,.. thanks.

so- now it is a bit bitter sweet as I may very well lose all of my accrued PTO,..94 hours.

Will have to see

Dunno about your state, but every state I have dealt with, accrued means it is earned and is 100% required to be paid out.

Japanese fund secures 1 trillion yen to buy Toshiba

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese investment fund has secured about 1 trillion yen ($6.8 billion) to buy out Toshiba Corp. and notified the embattled conglomerate that the amount was offered by a group of more than 10 Japanese companies, a source familiar with the matter said Monday.

But Japan Industrial Partners Inc. failed to meet Toshiba's request to submit a letter of loan commitments from major banks by Monday, the source said, leaving uncertain whether funds can be guaranteed for the takeover estimated at some 2.2 trillion yen in total.

Japan Industrial Partners, which leads a consortium that Toshiba designated the preferred bidder for the potential buyout, appears to be basing its total cost estimate on share price, as the figure equals the company's market capitalization, the source said.

In early October, Toshiba selected the consortium as the preferred bidder over Japan Investment Corp., a state-backed fund seeking to team up with Bain Capital for the buyout.

Toshiba has been struggling to recover from problems such as a window-dressing scandal and a massive loss in U.S. nuclear power business that surfaced in the 2010s.

@Obsolesce said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

Yes, in the server space I'm with you 100%.

Which is the point of this thread.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

December 7th

Pearl Harbor Day is a big thing there?

@JasGot said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

The OS will decrypt it when it needs access.

This means that the data is basically not encrypted as long as the OS is booted. Also, no system works this way.

Encrypted volumes are unlocked by the OS once and remain unlocked. No system that exists in the normal space works like you are wanting.

@JasGot said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

The OS will decrypt it when it or an application needs access.

This is not how anything works. I mean sure, it is what you want, but it is not how anything is actually designed.

@JasGot said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

Self Encrypted Drives seem to be the only way to go.

Generally, SED are decrypted on boot by the TPM, so booting to a USB will still decrypt the drive.

If not, then there is no way to boot the system functional without a user present.

@JasGot said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

encrypted when at rest.

Define encrypted at rest please. From the flow of your post, I assume it means when the server is shut off.

@JasGot said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

software vendor will not allow access to the server OS.

This is an impossible ask. You cannot install applications without the proper access.

@Dashrender said in Turn server into backup storage for remote servers?:

@dafyre said in Turn server into backup storage for remote servers?:

@Pete-S SSH will pretty much only be limited by the bandwidth available for you to suck in the backups.

I actually just finished a script for doing almost exactly what you said just a few days ago. I sanitized it and dropped in in Gitlab if you want to take a look.

https://gitlab.com/dafyre/linux-utils/-/blob/master/autobackup/autobackup.sh

I think I made everything a variable, but since it's sanitized, it's quite possible I missed something.

This one is for pushing backups from the server with data out to the backup server. Once you get it working, just set it up in Cron and go.

Why push instead of pull? Wouldn't pulling be safer - i.e. the webserver has no information about the backup server, so if it's compromised, it can't give anything to the attackers about the backups.

Pull is nothing but stupid complexity. It has no control over the remote system to know when backups are available and you have to pin hole each system to allow the incoming connection.

A push happens as soon as the valid backup is created, so you know that your backup is gone to location 2 almost immediately. Location 2 then sends to location 3 via a cloud sync tool. Preferably location 3 is immutable storage.

@Yonah-S said in Another new server question:

If you want to know how to get something built like that without the constraint of the online configurators - hit me up on private message.

When I buy, this is what I do.

But for quick comparison or rough ideas, the online tools are easy