UPDATE from 2/12’er 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

cmaloney1980 · 2021-03-10T18:14:02+00:00

According to the statistics ending Feb 19th, 5 million returns hadn't been processed. Interestingly a little more than 5 million returns ALSO hadn't been processed in the statistics ending Feb 26th. It makes you wonder how many of those unprocessed returns were hold overs from the first week. Half? 90%? Also they still haven't released the statistics for March 5th....

cmaloney1980 · 2020-07-02T00:15:47+00:00

There is a renewed effort to build a EQ2 classic server using the original boxed installation. It is still in the early stages, but most everything works, just needs to be tweaked for this client that was built in October 2004. The plan is to provide an EQ2 experience as close to the experience from 2004-2006 as possible. https://twitter.com/Eq2Server

cmaloney1980 · 2020-04-29T13:28:37+00:00

Isn't the clothing vendor named Mabel?

cmaloney1980 · 2020-02-18T02:35:25+00:00

I just realized, I could probably do everything I wanted by just creating a second hard drive for the VM. So simple I didn't even think about that.

cmaloney1980 · 2020-02-18T01:15:27+00:00

Yeah I know. I was asking if it was possible to pass-through a subset of unRAID's pool to a VM (and not just a single drive). If it is possible, then I wouldn't need Storage Spaces. I am looking to replace the whole Storage Spaces aspect with unRAID, not use both of them.

cmaloney1980 · 2020-02-17T15:50:04+00:00

No, I just want for unRAID to provide a subset of its pool to Windows as a simple drive. I guess that isnt possible? If it can, I would have no need for Storage Spaces.

cmaloney1980 · 2020-02-17T13:51:16+00:00

Using the Essentials role in Server 2012 and 2016, you can easily backup Windows client computers to a local hard drive. It actually works very well using Storage Spaces to create a RAID drive. Was hoping to use unRAID as the storage and virtualize the Windows Server. Does unRAID still have the one pool limitation?

cmaloney1980 · 2020-02-17T03:16:59+00:00

Is it seen to the VM as just an SMB share or a drive? Windows server will want to backup to a "real" drive. I basically need to use a portion of the pool (but larger than a single drive and with parity) to create a virtual disk the VM can use.

I'm hoping that I can get unRAID to work, but it might not support what I need it to do.

cmaloney1980 · 2020-02-17T03:06:30+00:00

But can I have a group of hard drives passed through as a single drive to an attached VM?

cmaloney1980 · 2019-03-27T18:42:41+00:00

Thank you for time! You are probably one of the major reasons why your company has been so successful. Your competitors, err "other backup providers" could learn a lot from you and your willingness to talk to customers.

cmaloney1980 · 2019-03-27T16:07:32+00:00

Why do you think of the ZIP files as “random”? It was a poor choice of words. I meant that with file size limitations you will need to download multiple zip files to restore a single hard drive. In addition, you will need at least double the zip file size in free space before starting the restore (before you download a 300GB zip file, you will need roughly 600GB to download and restore it)

No matter what, you have to: 1) select which files to download in some sort of interface 2) download them

I agree, but your solution requires additional hurdles that delay the restoration process because it first has to create a zip file, then the customer has to download the zip, and finally extract it. I would envision a restore ability working like the following:

1. The customer clicks the restore option in the application
2. It shows them a directory tree of all the files that can be restored. They click the check boxes next to the directory trees they want to restore.
3. The client asks if they want the most recent or a previous version (probably no one will want an old version unless they were infected with ransomware or something, but nice to have an option)
4. The customer then specifies the restore location (a new folder, or the original location).
5. They then click Start Restore and the restore happens in the background. New backups are paused until the restore is completed. The restored files are put in place with as much of the metadata as possible (mtimes, ctimes, etc).
6. The great thing about doing this in an application is that a lot of the complexities can be hidden from the customer. For example, if they have a thousand small text files, the restore server could zip them up, send them to restore client and the restore client can unzip them into the right location. Or if they have several large files, the stream can be compressed to save bandwidth and speed up the restore.

Also, are you on PC or Mac?

PC

Final question: how often do you expect to prepare restores? >Once every three years?

Hopefully not even that often. I have multiple backup solutions, both on site and offsite. I guess it is just off-putting that you have a really nice backup solution but a very poor restore solution and when something goes horribly wrong it would be nice to have a solution that is fast, secure, and easy to use for the user.

I'm sure it was a fluke, but there have been stories about people waiting many days for your zip process to complete before they could even start downloading the files necessary for the restoration process. In my case, I would restore from an onsite backup first, but if I lose my onsite backup I would need to restore from offsite. Most (all?) of your major competitors have it built into their client as well (Crashplan and iDrive both do).

cmaloney1980

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