That was ace - such a blast, and great to see everyone. Will definitely be heading up next year!

Overheard at Netgear water cooler:

Engineer 1: "I know, let's make the customer's backup device delete everything if it's confused about account status."

Engineer 2: "totes, great idea."

lol - the ultimate in ransomware protection. watch they don't raise prices, that's a premium feature

Hey guys - how goes it? Just popped by to say hi but it looks like I can help with a Q too: @Breffni-Potter if you have a 10-node Store, for example, and one of the nodes is hit by CL, you will still have access to your data, period. If the -mount node- is hit by CL however, and CL maliciously encrypts all drives it can write to (so including any mapped network drives etc.) then it would maliciously encrypt the Store data too.

In general, you can put a bullet in any machine running AetherStore and not notice. AetherStore will notice and automatically re-replicate the data that was on that machine onto other nodes in the system - no manual intervention required and your data is still accessible while this goes on in the background.

Who needs cryptolocker when you've got these guys?!

@Breffni-Potter looks like you killed the AetherStore Drive Manager process, or the AetherStore Daemon service. Restarting the Daemon service or running 'aetherstore-drive-manager.exe' in Program Files -> AetherStore -> Core will cause the drive to re-mount on that machine. If you killed the process manually then you probably know how to restart it an alternative (and much simpler) solution is to just log out/log in and it'll re-mount by itself.

@Breffni-Potter ah - well-spotted. Please refer to the 'last sync' column in the data grid for the time being - looks like we've addressed that in v1.2.4 (releasing soon). As an FYI: you'll get a notification on the home screen of your dashboard when there's a new version available, and there's an 'update all' button that will push out the new version to your nodes automatically.

I see a backlog of a couple q's - gotta finish up some work here at the moment but I'll hop back in a bit and make sure to get you across all the info you need

@Breffni-Potter said:

I'm deliberately trying to break it but so far it keeps coming back to life.

That's what we like to hear very good.

@DustinB3403 Which locations would you include? Just document scrapes of My Docs / Downloads / Desktop? Full disk diff? Or that frustrating 'somewhere betwixt' region, including user-installed applications & associated system/registry data? Once heading down this road it's hard to know where to stop...

lol - the ultimate in ransomware protection. watch they don't raise prices, that's a premium feature

Who needs cryptolocker when you've got these guys?!

Overheard at Netgear water cooler:

Engineer 1: "I know, let's make the customer's backup device delete everything if it's confused about account status."

Engineer 2: "totes, great idea."

@DustinB3403 Which locations would you include? Just document scrapes of My Docs / Downloads / Desktop? Full disk diff? Or that frustrating 'somewhere betwixt' region, including user-installed applications & associated system/registry data? Once heading down this road it's hard to know where to stop...

That was ace - such a blast, and great to see everyone. Will definitely be heading up next year!

@Breffni-Potter ah - well-spotted. Please refer to the 'last sync' column in the data grid for the time being - looks like we've addressed that in v1.2.4 (releasing soon). As an FYI: you'll get a notification on the home screen of your dashboard when there's a new version available, and there's an 'update all' button that will push out the new version to your nodes automatically.

I see a backlog of a couple q's - gotta finish up some work here at the moment but I'll hop back in a bit and make sure to get you across all the info you need

@Breffni-Potter looks like you killed the AetherStore Drive Manager process, or the AetherStore Daemon service. Restarting the Daemon service or running 'aetherstore-drive-manager.exe' in Program Files -> AetherStore -> Core will cause the drive to re-mount on that machine. If you killed the process manually then you probably know how to restart it an alternative (and much simpler) solution is to just log out/log in and it'll re-mount by itself.

@Breffni-Potter said:

I'm deliberately trying to break it but so far it keeps coming back to life.

That's what we like to hear very good.

*I guess you'd notice if it was the machine you were working on at the time plus, the noise...

Hey guys - how goes it? Just popped by to say hi but it looks like I can help with a Q too: @Breffni-Potter if you have a 10-node Store, for example, and one of the nodes is hit by CL, you will still have access to your data, period. If the -mount node- is hit by CL however, and CL maliciously encrypts all drives it can write to (so including any mapped network drives etc.) then it would maliciously encrypt the Store data too.

In general, you can put a bullet in any machine running AetherStore and not notice. AetherStore will notice and automatically re-replicate the data that was on that machine onto other nodes in the system - no manual intervention required and your data is still accessible while this goes on in the background.