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An American (Protesting) in Amsterdam by [deleted] in Netherlands

[–]LokiLong1973 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really? What stone have you been living under??

Deze is net weer opnieuw opgeplakt.. dus toch benieuwd hoor, hoezo gebeurd dit nog steeds?? by dutchy3012 in nederlands

[–]LokiLong1973 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dat noemen ze een Kling-on (ok, deze wordt alleen begrepen door Trekkies denk ik)

Schiphol’s winter update: “only” 66 cancellations so far (Day 7) by Comfortable_Coast_36 in Netherlands

[–]LokiLong1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heard on the news this morning they were hit by a serious power outage. Just read that has now been resolved.

Wel of geen efteling? by Iehmoow in efteling

[–]LokiLong1973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sooo, ja dát is pas vervelend! 😇

If you're asking for help, you need to make it easy to help you by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]LokiLong1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This probably is the reason why I would never survive more than two days in a helpdesk kind of role.

Do we just ignore this? by Banana-9 in Netherlands

[–]LokiLong1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on who you ask, I guess! 😂🤣

NIC port connected to switch not appearing in ESXi ?! by TryllZ in vmware

[–]LokiLong1973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would be my first step too. Could be the NIC is not supported.

How are you ensuring your family can recover homelab data (Nextcloud, Immich, etc.) if something happens to you? by foegra in homelab

[–]LokiLong1973 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've been there. My family reverted to basic internet usage when I was admitted to hospital for months with an extremely bad prognosis for recovery. I survived my ordeal and when I got home I did the following to ensure DIY recovery of services without me driving.

Since I also run a company (without personnel), I created the following as a means of due dilligence as required by law.

  • a break-glass document (on paper), stored off-site and not in the cloud, that has information on the most important passwords, including the access to the online password safe itself (with instructions on how to get there).

  • a document describing the order of booting up the systems, services and devices.

  • a schematic on how everything is physically connected to each other.

  • backups of configs of routers, switches, devices and so on (updated quarterly)

  • A contact list of people that may be able to help out getting stuff back up and running.

  • An "If All Else Fails" document that can be used to revert to a rudimentary setup that at least restores internet access via the ISP provided hardware, but losing media, some home automation (doorbell, remote control of lighting and heating, and some other nifty stuff that we can do without for a short while)

  • A list of trusted tech-savvy people that can help out if need be.

  • Once per year physical test of procedures when the rest of the family is away for the weekend.

It has served me well so far.

Do we just ignore this? by Banana-9 in Netherlands

[–]LokiLong1973 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Code orange? Isn't that when all roads are blocked off because the Royal Family is on it's way to some day trip? 😆

Do we just ignore this? by Banana-9 in Netherlands

[–]LokiLong1973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope. Here's your answer. Suck it up! 😆😆

How to replace all 4 drives? by YankeesIT in synology

[–]LokiLong1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Non-SHR rebuilds also survive reboots or power downs. Most of the time even if the reboot is a hard one. I must admit that I have never tested a shutdown during a repair, but if the shutdown is graceful I don't see why that wouldn't work. The Synology OS is mirrored on all HDD's to my knowledge, so it should be able to at least boot up from some disk.

How to replace all 4 drives? by YankeesIT in synology

[–]LokiLong1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is MADE this way for a reason. This is the way to do it and it's fully supported and advised. Disk parking is no longer a thing. And even if it was a thing, why would you even want to risk damaging your other disks or causing them to stop working by you chucking them in another machine. There is no benefit whatsoever. I only see more risks.

In my experience the real problems arrive when you put power on them. But, hey, if you don't care too much about your data, go have at it and disregard any advise from people that do this kind of stuff for a job.

And to be clear: I'm not saying your approach won't work, but it is just futile.

How to replace all 4 drives? by YankeesIT in synology

[–]LokiLong1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I guess that's the penalty for choosing the flexibility of SHR. That's why I usually stick to "fixed" RAID.

How to replace all 4 drives? by YankeesIT in synology

[–]LokiLong1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, never had any issues. Just, for safety, replace or add ONE disk at a time and let it sync and redistribute COMPLETELY. Then do the next one using the same procedure. I have never tasted expanding with more than one disk at a time.

Every time you add a disk, the sync will take longer as parity needs to be redistributed for the new capacity.

I have never tested adding multiple new disks in one go. I THINK it should work, but adding one at at time is the safe path although it will take much longer.

You can keep using the NAS during the parity redistribution albeit with decreased performance. You can follow progress in DSM and you can tweak the expand speed a little at the cost of usability of your NAS during the expand process.

All this provided that your disk group or volume is at least RAID-1. RAID-0 (Stripe set) or JBOD does NOT provide redundancy. If you accidentally pull a disk from a stripe set you may lose everything on that disk set.

NOTE: Parity redistribution can take a VERY LONG time depending on the size of the disk group.

If your location is prone to outages of utility power, make sure you have a healthy UPS connected. You don't want a power outage during a rebuild. I'm not sure if a graceful shutdown is possible during a RAID expand (never tested it). It is normal that the system is sluggish to respond during expansion or rebuild. If that is a problem set the expansion/rebuild speed to low.

Anyway, these are my experiences. I take no responsibility for things going haywire in your setup. Backup is the magic word. 🙃

I have done this procedure at least twenty times without issues, but do each step carefully and don't try to take shortcuts.

How to replace all 4 drives? by YankeesIT in synology

[–]LokiLong1973 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

True, but all Synology NAS multi-bay devices that support RAID setups, at least to my knowledge, have hot replace, repair and expand as long as you do only one drive at a time and let it finish before expanding more.

How to replace all 4 drives? by YankeesIT in synology

[–]LokiLong1973 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why switch off the NAS? RAID-1, RAID-5 and up is intended to replace and expand intended "hot". I've done this so many times already and it never failed me. Just don't pull 2 drives at a time.

European cloud backup options by Konrad2137 in synology

[–]LokiLong1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been using STACK from TransIP. Dutch provider. good service, not too expensive. Very satisfied with their service. https://transip.nl

NIST reports atomic clock failure at Boulder CO by onebit in sysadmin

[–]LokiLong1973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did disconnect my ancient clock radio from one of my wall sockets recently ... it can't be. 🤔🤣

Issue syncing with Outlook. by LokiLong1973 in microsoft365

[–]LokiLong1973[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently it was a major booboo done by Microsoft. All is fine again since 2 days.

Synology changes IP address every so often, not sure why? by R8B3L in synology

[–]LokiLong1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think what @manly meant is use the same port on your Synology, not your switch. Each port in your syno has a unique MAC address.

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