What Are You Doing Right Now

Reid Cooper

Scrambled eggs and coffee. Good morning Mangoes.

hobbit666

Watching "How to train your dragon" with the kids before getting ready for bed.

Reid Cooper

@hobbit666 said:

Watching "How to train your dragon" with the kids before getting ready for bed.

Barely Sunday brunch time here!

JaredBusch

Taking the kids to the pool at the park district.

scottalanmiller

Bed time around here.

nadnerB

Just about to hit 10AM and I'm onto my second coffee... three hours early.
The first one didn't even touch the sides.

Joy

Monday morning but it's Chinese New Year.. few people are around and Holiday in the Philippines.

Dashrender

Watched Dark Matter (sci fi) on Netflix.. it's pretty awesome so far.

scottalanmiller

@Joy said:

Monday morning but it's Chinese New Year.. few people are around and Holiday in the Philippines.

Also known as Lunar New Years. Steam has a big sale on to celebrate.

scottalanmiller

We got up early to clean the house today.

scottalanmiller

Just got a random call, in Greek, on the ancient house phone. That was weird.

NattNatt

Just got in to work...for some reason, on a Monday it takes me about 20 minutes longer than any other day...

scottalanmiller

@NattNatt said:

Just got in to work...for some reason, on a Monday it takes me about 20 minutes longer than any other day...

I think that I tend to be up earlier, rather than later, on Mondays.

NattNatt

@scottalanmiller said:

@NattNatt said:

Just got in to work...for some reason, on a Monday it takes me about 20 minutes longer than any other day...

I think that I tend to be up earlier, rather than later, on Mondays.

Yeah, I may need to leave 10 minutes earlier on a Monday in future...

scottalanmiller

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1432794-how-to-implement-windows-server-in-our-organization

First Windows server ever for the company OR the IT guy... yet it is Server 2008. Something fishy there?

scottalanmiller

A backup vendor asking if "big commercial databases" run from USB drives or FTP. Seriously?

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1432565-the-best-storage-for-big-databases

Here is the OP before the vendor takes it away:

Greetings for all!

Please tell which modern storage devices/solutions you are using (or just feel a most convenient) for big databases, especially commercial-level DBs with at least several thousands of daily transactions?

Fast external drives (USB 3.0, eSATA)
NAS units
Local FTP/SFTP/FTPS servers
Internet-connected storages (clouds, distant FTPs)
Dedicated storage vaults
Other device types

It is also very interesting why you are using or suggesting a particular storage. Your answers are very important for our team, to develop better, faster backup practices for big databases.

Thanks for sharing your opinions!

Best regards,

Nataliya (Handy Backup Team)

scottalanmiller

Clearly that "backup vendor" isn't sure what databases even are. Not something you want to find out about your backup people.

hobbit666

Downloading Xen iso

scottalanmiller

@hobbit666 said:

Downloading Xen iso

XenServer?

hobbit666

@scottalanmiller said:

@hobbit666 said:

Downloading Xen iso

XenServer?

Yeap, though it was about time to give it another go and look at XO after all the posts I see raving about it