@storageninja said in What Is an Agentless Backup:

@momurda said in What Is an Agentless Backup:

I dont get the controversy here. Every single agentless backup uses snapshots, always has. Veeam, Unitrends, etc. How else could they work?
edit: For example, I can do a snapshot in XS/xcp, then export that snapshot. That is a real agentless backup. This is exactly the same process Unitrends uses, with a bit of flair added on like dedup and some other stuff like automation.

This is actually incorrect. There have been agentless systems that can mirror data without using a snapshot by leveraging write splitting technology. RecoveryPoint was an early one in the physical layer (and similar storage virtualization engines). VAIO based replication (RP4VM's, Veritas) also can replicate without a snapshot as the API's allow for write splitting to occur at the hypervisor layer giving you access to a "journal" and window you can recover from.

You may use snapshots, or scripts to stun applications WITH these technologies to improve consistency of recovery, but they have existed for a long time and can run without snapshots.

Uhhuh. What is the cost of these solutions? Hundreds of thousands of dollars? Millions of dollars? This is an SMB IT admin forum, not Fortune 100 IT Admin forum.
Any of the solutions you mention here are meant for huge shops with annual multimillion dollar IT budgets.
I could give you specifics, but like all IT products, the price is hidden until you talk to someone on the phone.
I doubt anybody here on this forum is in an environment where these would be considered. One of the examples I see on the web for one of these products is for 2500 vms.
None of them work with anything other than VMware.

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

On season 2 of Voyager.

I think Voyager is underrated. I really enjoyed it. My ordering of Star Trek Shows is as follows:
1.) TOS (It started the whole thing and deserves to be #1)
2.) STTNG
3.) Voyager
4.) Enterprise (Such a shame it was canceled when it was, it was really getting good and had huge potential)
5.) DS9

Too soon to classify Discovery.

Nostalgia aside, TOS is pretty bad. I'm not surprised it got cancelled.

Yes, some of them are very very bad. I am watching them on Prime again. But TV in the 60s was all about hammy over acting. Watch any show from that era theyre all like that.

How was that? it is in my NF queue i think.

I dont get the controversy here. Every single agentless backup uses snapshots, always has. Veeam, Unitrends, etc. How else could they work?
edit: For example, I can do a snapshot in XS/xcp, then export that snapshot. That is a real agentless backup. This is exactly the same process Unitrends uses, with a bit of flair added on like dedup and some other stuff like automation.

Morons going broke investing in Bitcoin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/technology/cryptocurrency-investor-losses.html
Keep buying!

Literally any of these people could have actually made money in the last year by buying an index fund.

@ndc Yes im actually re reading Revelation Space. I read the Revelation Space trilogy a while ago, but then learned there were about half a dozen others in the universe, outside that story. So now im reading again starting at book one.

La Fin du Monde Belgian Style Triple Ale

So many people with masks on today because of the smoke that is everywhere. Can smell it there's so much, but no fires within a hundred miles or more of here.

Find-Module * returns lots of stuff.
3013 at the moment.

It took about 20 seconds for the quality to increase to HD. it was illegibly fuzzy before that

Why would anybody ever call american police for help?

For Learning:
Astronomy A self teaching guide
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620459906/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Student Guide to Mathematics of Astronomy
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107610214/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

For Fun:
Revelation Space, Chasm City

Recently:
Book of Five Rings, Meditations

Just in case anybody here doesnt play Rocket League, it is on sale right now on Steam.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just found this on an older pc, hope the user hasn't been using it.

Amazing, either it was an MSI or that version is so old that did not do automatic updates.

So old, i installed FF 61 and this was still there as a separate installed program!

@eddiejennings Happened to me a few times recently. Once was supposed to be someone else in my building, once across the street, once down the street a bit.

Just found this on an older pc, hope the user hasn't been using it.

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

New Nvidia cards debut
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3298958/components-graphics/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-2070-raytracing-specs-features-price.html
Crazy expensive, could mean 1080/1080ti wont see price drop.

The prices aren't that bad, $1000 and $700 is borderline cheap.

False. In fact, they are 200 dollars more at launch than the 1080 cards they replace.

New Nvidia cards debut
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3298958/components-graphics/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-2070-raytracing-specs-features-price.html
Crazy expensive, could mean 1080/1080ti wont see price drop.

Twinkle Twinkle LIttle Star is better than all their music, and it was written by a 5 year old.

Proof that people like garbage
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/beating-king-of-pop-the-eagles-have-no1-album-of-all-time/ar-BBMafOa?ocid=spartanntp