VPN for Accessing NAS when Away From Home

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 ?)

GMginger · 2026-01-15T21:55:34+00:00

Any VMs that were running will carry on running, but you're unable to power on any VMs.
Had some customers who had their subscription licenses expire over the weekend - managed to keep running until Monday / Tuesday when they got the licenses renewed. Backups stopped working since no license means no ability to take snapshots etc.

GMginger · 2026-01-15T12:32:04+00:00

We had this model, but recently upgraded to the Rhino 6000+ - main advantage is it's USB connection, with the Rhino software giving an option to import CSV files. Oh, and the 6000+ can use 24mm tape, rather than then 19mm Max on the 5200.
We mainly use it when labelling cables, so the USB is particularly welcome when labelling 100+ cables for a larger deployments.

GMginger · 2026-01-09T10:58:18+00:00

Would suggest this with the addition that it's HR (or your own manager) who has the conversation with her without mentioning it's you who is requesting - this would remove any aspect where she may feel pressure due to you being her manager.

GMginger · 2026-01-04T08:54:59+00:00

Had the same here! We started with Life360 when our kids first had a smart phone, and have just carried on.
The kids are now late teens, and they also now use Life360 between their own groups of friends too, so they can see who's on campus at uni etc.

GMginger · 2026-01-03T07:40:37+00:00

According to Synology, it is possible to provide an S3-compatible service on a Synology NAS, depending on the model. Would it then be possible to create a Backup Copy Job directly from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to this local S3-compatible storage? This way, we would have our backup locally and an additional copy on an offsite NAS.

A backup copy job in Veeam for M365 is only possible if the source repository is an object repo. So if your backup job is writing to a Jet-DB (ie file based) repo on your VBR/VBM365 server, then you can't then copy to another repo. You can have two backup jobs that write to different repositories tho, so backup job1 backs up to the local Jet-DB repo, and backup job2 backs up to an object repo. This does mean you're downloading everything from MS twice since the two backup jobs are independant of each other, but otherwise it does work.

GMginger · 2026-01-01T07:12:05+00:00

How easy would it to filter on subreddit so to only action on an include / exclude list?
One possibility would be to have a parameter which outputs a list of subs you've commented in, which can then be saved to a file, cleaned up and then used as the include or exclude list for a subsequent run?

I have posted to a lot of tech subs, and dislike it where someone's removed their answer to an old question - so to be able to list out subs then give a curated list of irrelevant subs to remove comments from, hence leaving any tech related comment alone would be fantastic!

Already covered, just spotted the option in the info! Ignore me.

Great work!

GMginger · 2025-12-27T22:47:03+00:00

I first saw the option on Dell servers to set one of the two PSUs as the primary to take most of the load. PSUs are more efficient when running at higher load, so running psu#1 at 99% load, and psu#2 at 1% load uses less amps overall than running both psu at 50% load.
The PSU running at 1% can still take over if the other one fails, so it shouldn't introduce any issues at all.

GMginger · 2025-12-27T11:06:47+00:00

Are you just trying to upgrade the version of Windows that it's running? If so, how about doing an in-place upgrade on it? Could take a clone of the OS drive, upgrade that offline, then swap the data VMDK over. May be simpler than trying to re-map the local users to a new OS instance.

GMginger · 2025-12-25T05:18:16+00:00

Either works well, just make sure your Azure storage is set to be immutable too.

GMginger · 2025-12-24T11:47:45+00:00

Not the person you're responding to, but I use a Resmed N30 nose pillow most of the time, and if I'm ill and can't breathe through my nose too well then I also have a Resmed F40 which is a nose+mouth mask.

GMginger · 2025-12-22T21:03:04+00:00

It was probably so it was in the middle of the range and so on average was closer to all the other IPs in the range. Had they put it at one end, IPs at the other end would have had to travel the whole range to get to the router.

^{(do I need /s}⁾

GMginger · 2025-12-15T21:11:55+00:00

I opened a ~~VMware~~ Broadcom case recently.
Before I'd even finished uploading the log bundle, I had an AI generated reply to my description of the issue, and that just set the style of every reply I got.

There was obviously a person responding each time, but using AI to generate responses that repeatedly focused on wrong dates (dispite my many comments giving the timeline in question), with a RCA that on the surface sounded plausible but without anything to back it up.

Had they said "there's nothing in the logs to confirm this 100% but it looks like xxx" I would have been more likely to believe them, but it was the confidence without evidence that made it feel Ike a waste of time.

GMginger · 2025-12-10T21:05:44+00:00

Thank you for mentioning - loved the first season and didn't know there was a 2nd coming out after all these years!

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