Back in the office after a week long break! Been catching up on emails so far!

Looking forward to the Ghost Recon: Wildlands Open Beta that starts tomorrow - and finally moving over to Intel tomorrow - Getting a 6700K processor and an ASUS Maximus Hero VIII motherboard and 16GB Hyper X DDR4 RAM! Should be a bit of an improvement to my Phenom II X6 and 12GB RAM!

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Working from home today, anxiety playing up so couldn't drive this morning...so chilling with loud rock music and smashing through tickets!

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

About to try my first EVER Earl Grey tea

How?

Half lemonade half sweet tea, half whiskey....

3 halves?

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

About to try my first EVER Earl Grey tea

My Grandma loves them....

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Did I read this right.... he bought 600TB of storage to build a SAN, with only 6GB of RAM for all of it, and didn't even know how he was going to use it before buying it? Now this is what being rich looks like.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1965085-recommended-os-distro-for-fc-target-storage

....ouch.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NattNatt you enjoy snow?

I do! I'm still a child at heart

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NattNatt you enjoy snow?

Maybe he's just a fan of six inches.

Was waiting for some comment like that...

Jealous

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Played a lot of For Honor yesterday. Really fun game. Open beta right now.

It looks good, but not my style of game!

Yeah, I bought some games through uPlay directly as they were cheaper//bought keys for uPlay...

Going to buy the Collectors Edition of Ghost Recon Wildlands when uPlay responds to me about why my discount code isnt working when it should... £91 for the full game, season pass, headset, collectors edition skull, map, soundtrack, random bag and postcards from bolivia and bonus in game content...this is the most I've ever spent on a game :')

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Got my daughter's laptop loaded up with new games for her to try. She forgets that we have a Big Fish account with like forty more games that she never really looks at.

True first world problems, too many games accounts

It's true. Steam, GOG, Origin, BigFish.

Yeah, I've got Steam, GOG, Origin, uPlay, Blizzard and a few others that I can't remember the names of...

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Got my daughter's laptop loaded up with new games for her to try. She forgets that we have a Big Fish account with like forty more games that she never really looks at.

True first world problems, too many games accounts

Just had my first review, and now back on the desk, currently rebooting a few customers servers.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Our doctor's office just emailed us to tell us that 2+ years of medical records were lost because they weren't testing backups. They kept getting a "your backup was successful" message, but no one looked to see if that was true.

So not only did they totally lose their medical records system (um, really?) but they don't have working backups.

I'll hold my hands up on this too, we are terrible and testing.

But that's about to change as i'm reviewing our entire backup and testing procedures over the next month or two.

We check all customers backups every week, and the majority get a test restore done at least once a month too, just to be on the safe side - so might be worth doing test restores as well - no good making sure the backup works if you're unable to restore the data if it does die!

If by checking you mean looking at the logs.... That's not really checking. A restore is the only real check. Of course having logs that day the backups were successful is a good first step.

Full logs checked every week, and any warnings/errors raised to be fixed

Checking means actually doing a restore. The doctors office that just lost everything has clear logs, too.

Fair enough, that's once a month then!

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Our doctor's office just emailed us to tell us that 2+ years of medical records were lost because they weren't testing backups. They kept getting a "your backup was successful" message, but no one looked to see if that was true.

So not only did they totally lose their medical records system (um, really?) but they don't have working backups.

I'll hold my hands up on this too, we are terrible and testing.

But that's about to change as i'm reviewing our entire backup and testing procedures over the next month or two.

We check all customers backups every week, and the majority get a test restore done at least once a month too, just to be on the safe side - so might be worth doing test restores as well - no good making sure the backup works if you're unable to restore the data if it does die!

If by checking you mean looking at the logs.... That's not really checking. A restore is the only real check. Of course having logs that day the backups were successful is a good first step.

Full logs checked every week, and any warnings/errors raised to be fixed

Trying to figure out why one of our customers servers just turned itself off.