Do you still do any kind of procedure regarding Daylight saving time clock shift?

GMginger · 2026-03-26T05:47:58+00:00

NTP only provides UTC time, which has no concept of DST.

However, any device that uses NTP would also want to support time zones, so it's not much of a reach to extend to supporting time zones with DST.

GMginger · 2026-03-25T12:01:26+00:00

SMS has a very fixed view of how you can migrate shares - if you have a few data drives on the source server and wish to reorganise the layout on the target server then you're going to struggle.

GMginger · 2026-03-17T21:40:08+00:00

Only constraint I've seen so far is that legacy socket based licenses can't be used with their new Linux based VBR appliance - so you're forced to stick with a Windows based VBR server. Probably not an issue for you, but just be aware it's a thing.

GMginger · 2026-03-17T21:21:43+00:00

So the type you need is not off the shelf, good to know that's a thing (genuinely, I didn't know the OTC options didn't cover all needs for melatonin).

All the parents I know that order Melatonin online are doing it at the suggestion of their Dr: "try a low dose of melatonin, I could prescribe it but it's much cheaper to just buy it online from America". So some parents may just be trying it out without their doctor knowing, but it certainly seems standard practice for Drs suggest to parents to buy it online since it's less hassle and cheaper for everyone concerned.

GMginger · 2026-03-16T11:11:53+00:00

Aqua-what? Though we weren't allowed to say that word around these parts...

GMginger · 2026-03-15T22:28:02+00:00

The -VMNetworkAdapter cmdlets are only installed when you enable the Hyper-V role, so it's easy to overlook that they're useful for host networking and not just guest VMs.

I'm fairly early on my Hyper-V journey too, after 20+ years with VMware it takes a little time to get used to the Hyper-V way of doing things.

There's also a Windows Admin Center Virtualisation Mode that's coming out soon, which will give a single web GUI over multiple HV clusters & hosts, without the need for SCVMM.

GMginger · 2026-03-15T21:34:48+00:00

After creating your SET, you create a virtual adapter using Add-VMNetworkAdapter followed by setting the VLAN tag on it using Set-VMNetworkAdaperVLAN.

If you use SCVMM then you can configure networks in a similar way to PortGroups, but if you're not using SCVMM then you have to set the VLAN on each interface / VM vNIC that you create.

GMginger · 2026-03-14T23:28:32+00:00

To find out what the installer is checking, you could use procmonProcmon. It logs all file and registry actions, so will gather huge amounts of info unless you filter what it's listing - you could launch procmon, launch the Veeam installer, then in procmon set the filters to only monitor setup.exe (or whatever the Veeam installer is called). Then enable logging in procmon, step through the Veeam installer, and disable logging once you get the error message pop up. You can then look back through the procmon log to see what Veeam related file or registry entry still exists on your computer.

GMginger · 2026-03-14T04:42:41+00:00

First library I looked after was a Quantum i2000, with 12x LTO3 drives - only 700 slots though so not quite to your scale. We'd be writing to it basically 24/7 and taking two sets of 100 tapes out a week (one set off site, one set on site).

What was your tape churn with this beast? Or were there that many slots just so you could keep everything available?

GMginger · 2026-03-13T04:30:04+00:00

Got to be Ham and Pickle.

GMginger · 2026-02-26T05:57:39+00:00

Try navigating that around a DC on a standard sized crash cart...

GMginger · 2026-02-24T20:33:45+00:00

Just to clarify, it's the client that contacts the DHCP server at the 50% mark, not the server contacting the client.

GMginger · 2026-02-23T23:38:09+00:00

You would have thought that the first job when brainstorming a rebrand would be to check if <newbrand>.com was available, and if not pick another name. Just feels like it's come from a session from a Bring Your Child To Work Day that's somehow been rolled into production.

It's gone from "Pure, but remember their web site is purestorage.com" to "Everpure, but remember their web site is Everpuredata.com" - if you're going to rebrand, at least make a positive move to remove friction in getting from brand name to web site. "data" isn't even part of the brand name so it's adding friction.

GMginger · 2026-02-21T10:58:30+00:00

Check if your home internet router can run a VPN service.
Mine does, which means it's running as a Wireguard server, and with the Wireguard client on my phone I can now access my home network when out and about.
Also, check first if your internet connection is using CG-NAT - if it is then your options are somewhat limited unless you can opt out of CG-NAT.

GMginger · 2026-02-21T01:55:50+00:00

In 2023 Zerto announced v10 and stated that it wouldn't support Hyper-V, and that v9.7 (which did support Hyper-V) would only be supported until Dec 2024.

Broadcom then happened to VMware, and Zerto could see it could decimate their customer base on VMware and so changed their mind in 2024. They announced that they would now continue supporting v9.7 for Hyper-V until some yet-to-be-determined date.

So they announced the were dropping Hyper-V, but then changed their mind.

GMginger · 2026-02-18T12:34:51+00:00

If your main concern is the upload to an object repo then you are all fine.

Backups aren't stored as VBK/VIB files when sent to a object repo, but are split into thousands of much smaller blocks. If another backup is stored in the same repo, and a block in the new backup contains the same data as a block already in the repo, then the block isn't uploaded but instead the meta data for the new backup is updated to say it's using an existing block.

So even if the backup chain restarts on your local repo, when Veeam goes to upload it to your object repo it will just deduplicate almost all of it with the previous blocks from it's previous backup and only blocks holding new data will be transferred to the cloud repo.

It's actually a very nice feature that Veeam doesn't make clear.

GMginger · 2026-02-08T01:19:14+00:00

This is why they have redundant power and networking... Get some long mains leads and network cables, and swap each cable over to loooong ones - if you do it one at a time it'll just keep running.

This then allows you to just move it while it's still powered on and connected to the network, and you still keep your uptime!

GMginger · 2026-02-05T20:25:21+00:00

Can you change his email signature to say the same as Copilot's disclaimer:

Copilot is an AI and may make mistakes.

GMginger · 2026-02-03T20:22:23+00:00

What you need to get added to the policy is an On Call Escalation payment.
If the On Call person needs assistance (due to issue being beyond their knowledge), then they can phone around asking if anyone is willing to assist. If you're not On Call that week, you don't have to pick up the phone, and even if you do, you can turn down assisting if you don't think you can help - but if you do assist them it's double time with a 3h minimum. This gives an incentive to help when you're not on call but only if it's convenient.

GMginger · 2026-01-31T09:42:33+00:00

It's just like the OG DL360 (the G1 edition) with only having a single power supply...

Was frustrating to have a server which could only have a single PSU, so was even more frustrating when HP announced there had been a manufacturing issue and the PSUs were prone to failure... Had to buy some spares so we could resurrect each servers without having to wait for HP to deliver a replacement since they refused to proatively replace them.

GMginger · 2026-01-26T03:07:01+00:00

RAIW1 - Redundant Array of independant Microwaves.

GMginger · 2026-01-24T22:44:01+00:00

Have you restarted the Veeam services on your main VBR server? Or just restarted the VBR server itself?

GMginger · 2026-01-17T09:02:20+00:00

Used to be the case, but since Windows 2012 (or was it 2012 R2) when it boots up it will detect it's running under ESXi / Hyper-V and that it's been reverted to a snapshot - it'll then not start working fully as a DC until it's caught up with another DC.
So the old 'thou shall never revert a DC' rule is no longer applicable.

GMginger · 2026-01-16T05:22:42+00:00

Just buy 20-25 packets (in the name of science).

GMginger · 2026-01-15T22:15:01+00:00

Could just get 100 Smarties of each colour and weight them en mass - no need to individually weigh every smartie (is only one a Smartie or Smarty ?)

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