*Gets out of hibernation* what year is it?

[layla17]

Great to meet you RS... congrats on the L1 tech job.

[TurcoLoco]

[quote=Red Squirrel;30413]You should download it to your home PC, what if the server goes ka boom? lol
[quote]In Blank's case we have to substitute what if with when.

Also it is not where the data is placed but verifying the backup data is good and also finding it when sh.t hits the fan that matters.

And again, in IANAG's case, "poor fan" is all I can say!

[Red Squirrel]

Or a very powerful fan.

Actually speaking of backups I asked one of the higher IT managers where I work if theres any objection to me using a portable HDD to do backups of my VMs and stuff and he started going on about how I should be storing everything on my H drive and that using personal hardware is against company policy.

1: I don't think my quota quite allows me to store 40+ gigs of data
2: the VM PC is not on the same network. (we have 2 PCs, one for our internal stuff, and one for external customer support/testing etc)

Well if the PC dies, its the company's loss, not mine, really. Will slow down production as I recoop from the loss.

[cauzomb]

You should put in a suggestion to upgrade. Make notes of current capacity and required capacity and your projection of "when" they will be out of space for backups with their current configuration; and emphasize the downtime that will be avoided and how much that down time will cost them if it happens... If they don't have enough to do it, that's really lame! Even the computers at stuffed pizza have a mirrored array with enough capacity to handle the data, without wierd "quotas"

[TurcoLoco]

Why do you backup on the VM side? I never backed up any of my VM data, were you referring to snapshots or something?

As much as I use VMware and like it, it is a huge resource hog.

[Gizmokid2005]

We never got to use VMs at work...we had/still have to rely on knowledge and screenshots.modemhelp.net to view screenshots to fix issues...

[Red Squirrel]

I'd probably backup the VMs since its faster, just copy whole folder over and your done with. (like, do it overnight type of thing)


The way we're setup is we have an internal machine for email and other stuff like that, and an external machine for testing as well as customer network access through VPN we have a VM for each client as multiple VPN sessions tend to not play well with each other. All those VMs have lot of saved information like profiles, passwords etc... Basically it took me a good month or so to have all my VMs setup so I can fully support customers, since the information such as passwords I may only use once every few months, and is scattered throughout the office, we need some kind of database with all the information really, but its horribly organized.

If it were me I'd get rid of the internal/external machine thing and come up with a solution to do it from one machine. I'm sure theres a secure way to do it thats more practical. Like maybe have two nics, you bridge the VMs to the external nic, and block them from accessing the host machine.

But I could go on, theres lot of stuff at that company I don't agree with, but hey, they pay my salary thats all I care for.