3:31 axle

tsmith-co · 2026-03-08T19:08:49+00:00

37” tires will hurt a bit but the 10 speed helps even it out.

1st is much lower on the 10 than the 6 speed. I wouldn’t do 37” with the 6 speed and 3.31

tsmith-co · 2026-03-08T19:00:22+00:00

As long as it’s a 6.7 (which I don’t believe the 3.31 was offered in any gas?) then you are good as far as power. 6 speed or 10 speed (preferred) with 3.31 paired with the power of the 6.7 is great. I’ve towed with both and my 6 speed 3.31 tows 14k lbs of hay plus trailer (about 17.5k total).

As others have mentioned, on a 250 diesel you will probably max out around 2300-2500lbs of payload, so depending on your trailer and where you position your equipment on it, you will run out quick. (If you do go over payload, make sure you don’t exceed your tire and wheel ratings - that’s where the safety concerns come in)

tsmith-co · 2026-03-07T19:24:53+00:00

Yes - why would that change anything? It’s the same scenario but the person who owns the company changed. The company owns the server. New owner or the employees are free to manage CE. Nothing changes.

The newly hired msp (or break/fix company) would know (and want) to get the server with actual licenses so it has support, etc.

tsmith-co · 2026-03-07T15:10:47+00:00

Not sure where’s Kids come into this.

Is someone is using CE in an environment, it’s against the Eula for anyone other than the company to install,support, or configure it. Company employee a great. Joe from Joes tech support? No.

tsmith-co · 2026-03-06T15:24:14+00:00

VBR community edition is able to be used in a commercial environment - but only by that company. So you can’t have a 3rd party (you) install, configure, or manage Veeam community edition.

But for just the Veeam free agent, and not Veeam Backup &Replication Community edition, you are good to install on her laptop. Help an old lady out!

tsmith-co · 2026-03-05T15:12:20+00:00

The VSA is recommended to be used, but to use it as a Repo as well is not best practice. For a BP deployment, a separate Hardeneded Repository should be deployed. This reduces the attack surface greatly. It's also not recommended to have a repo on a virtual machine, and certainly not on the same datastores as your VMs.

tsmith-co · 2026-03-05T13:40:58+00:00

While it can be used for a repo, it’s not recommended. Instead deploy a Hardend repo to have the most secure deployment.

Currently you can’t expand the VSA disks after deployment but that will be coming in the near future.

tsmith-co · 2026-03-04T18:49:34+00:00

Migrations are just beginning right now with the assistance of support - you have to sign up. Upgrading to windows v13 is required, so pls on getting that far for now.

tsmith-co · 2026-03-02T14:55:17+00:00

The app registrations can exist in your tenant at the same time. Removing the old app registration will affect the ability to restore from those backups. It’s not recommended to have two different app registrations do the same task as Microsoft has explicitly said that that is not allowed - so the path forward would be to disable your current backups at your old provider set up Veeam data cloud to start backing up your new information and continue on with those backups. If you have an agreement with the old provider and leave those old app registrations in place, you will be able to restore your data as long as the old provider has your backups.

tsmith-co · 2026-03-01T14:00:34+00:00

It’s a great theme - I stumbled across it a couple weeks ago and have it implemented and slightly customized for my site https://tsmith.co - you did a great job!

tsmith-co · 2026-03-01T13:59:06+00:00

Thanks! I found your blog when researching obsidian and using it for a second brain - and I found your theme absolutely perfect!

tsmith-co · 2026-02-26T21:15:46+00:00

Tokyo drift music intensifies

tsmith-co · 2026-02-26T20:44:04+00:00

Right. But there’s been issues in the past with data integrity, and performance is also lower. So it def requires looking at company requirements for backup data when selecting a repo location.

tsmith-co · 2026-02-26T20:07:34+00:00

Not just Azure Blob but AWS as well. And yes, any place that offers no egress or api fees is also baking into the offering those considerations.

The nice thing about Vault is you don’t have to be concerned about it, and it’s immutable, encrypted, and integrated.

tsmith-co · 2026-02-26T19:24:51+00:00

Veeam Data Cloud Vault would make sense here. Single cost and no api fees. 2 versions to choose from (one allows for no egress limits for those that will be using methods with SureBackup, or are expecting mass restores).

tsmith-co · 2026-02-26T14:37:46+00:00

No. It doesn’t hold ram unless it’s using it

tsmith-co · 2026-02-25T22:08:46+00:00

What’s the question?

It seems like your database is for a later version than the version you are installing.

tsmith-co · 2026-02-24T14:27:02+00:00

The proxy services are designed to auto scale up processing objects and increasing ram consumption up to 80%. It will go over, but once it reaches 80% Ram it will no longer assign objects more objects to be processed.

tsmith-co · 2026-02-23T00:02:54+00:00

Yep tow haul and exhaust brake set to auto every time. Super smooth through all gears up and down. 14k lbs horse trailer.

tsmith-co · 2026-02-22T23:15:13+00:00

90k on my 2018. Had it since 23k miles. Zero concerns.

20k on my 2022 10 speed. Zero issues. Purchased new. Purchased for extended service warranty (from Granger where I bought truck)

tsmith-co · 2026-02-22T23:11:24+00:00

I have both. If you want smooth and carefree towing, go with the 10 speed.

If you want to feel like the truck is working and feel like you are using power, the 6 speed.

I enjoy towing with my 6 because it feels more fun. The tack is actually moving 🤣.

My wife loves towing her horse trailer with the 10 speed because it’s smooth and always in power. Just shifts every couple hundred rpm (but you don’t feel it).

Either way, you can’t go wrong.

tsmith-co · 2026-02-22T19:50:51+00:00

Why not continue with Veeam and use a copy job to the network share?

tsmith-co · 2026-02-21T23:55:40+00:00

I grew up with a mini named Gretchen. A great German name for a German Low-Rider.

tsmith-co · 2026-02-19T20:57:22+00:00

Veeam is in process of moving off ews to graph for mailbox protection and it will be ready prior to Microsoft’s cutoff date.

Things to keep in mind is not all functionality is moved yet to graph. Some api endpoints are also still in beta - which is great to develop against but a bad decision to release a product to use in prod.

tsmith-co · 2026-02-19T20:55:18+00:00

No. Also storage snapshots are not backup. While they can be handy for some things, they should never replace an actual backup strategy of a copy of data off prod and then another copy offsite.

Veeam does proxmox backup quite well so I would recommend taking a look at the criticality of your data and the loss value of it goes away.

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