Remote connection manager
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@zuphzuph said in Remote connection manager:
@BBigford Please do tell more.
Someone did something they were told never to do... overwrote a production database with a broken, outdated dev one. Happened by putting a dev database on a production SQL server. Tried to do a roll back... turns out he's been messing with it for a week. Oops. Interested to see how this turns out... looking over my monitors, I can see sweat forming on his brow.
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@zuphzuph said in Remote connection manager:
@BBigford Please do tell more.
...and it's on a server that is the core of the company. Someone is on the phone with support right now though. So hopefully it'll get fixed today. If I was him I'd be shitting my pants right now. He'll be pretty lucky if he keeps his job.
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@BBigford Yeah imo he shouldn't... that's really not someone who should be touching production servers/environments...
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@zuphzuph said in Remote connection manager:
@BBigford Yeah imo he shouldn't... that's really not someone who should be touching production servers/environments...
Well we'll see how this turns out. It is reeeeally not good. Just got off the phone with a couple people.
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@BBigford said in Remote connection manager:
@zuphzuph said in Remote connection manager:
@BBigford Please do tell more.
Someone did something they were told never to do... overwrote a production database with a broken, outdated dev one. Happened by putting a dev database on a production SQL server. Tried to do a roll back... turns out he's been messing with it for a week. Oops. Interested to see how this turns out... looking over my monitors, I can see sweat forming on his brow.
Oh this is LIVE AS IT HAPPENS.
Exciting.... maybe we need a thread of "up to the minute disaster news" for this!
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@zuphzuph said in Remote connection manager:
@BBigford Yeah imo he shouldn't... that's really not someone who should be touching production servers/environments...
Developers, in general, should not. It's not a good combination of duties.
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@scottalanmiller said in Remote connection manager:
@BBigford said in Remote connection manager:
@zuphzuph said in Remote connection manager:
@BBigford Please do tell more.
Someone did something they were told never to do... overwrote a production database with a broken, outdated dev one. Happened by putting a dev database on a production SQL server. Tried to do a roll back... turns out he's been messing with it for a week. Oops. Interested to see how this turns out... looking over my monitors, I can see sweat forming on his brow.
Oh this is LIVE AS IT HAPPENS.
Exciting.... maybe we need a thread of "up to the minute disaster news" for this!
-> https://mangolassi.it/topic/10426/i-would-fire-someone-for
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@BBigford said in Remote connection manager:
@zuphzuph said in Remote connection manager:
@BBigford Yeah imo he shouldn't... that's really not someone who should be touching production servers/environments...
Well we'll see how this turns out. It is reeeeally not good. Just got off the phone with a couple people.
How recent are the backups?
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@scottalanmiller said in Remote connection manager:
@BBigford said in Remote connection manager:
@zuphzuph said in Remote connection manager:
@BBigford Yeah imo he shouldn't... that's really not someone who should be touching production servers/environments...
Well we'll see how this turns out. It is reeeeally not good. Just got off the phone with a couple people.
How recent are the backups?
I verify my backups, so I saved the day.
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@scottalanmiller said in Remote connection manager:
@BBigford said in Remote connection manager:
@zuphzuph said in Remote connection manager:
@BBigford Yeah imo he shouldn't... that's really not someone who should be touching production servers/environments...
Well we'll see how this turns out. It is reeeeally not good. Just got off the phone with a couple people.
How recent are the backups?
1AM this morning (they start after close of doors cause they typically take around 8 hours. So we lost a day, but better than a week.
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@BBigford Nice! ... Do you guys not have translogs or anything to get closer to current?
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@dafyre said in Remote connection manager:
@BBigford Nice! ... Do you guys not have translogs or anything to get closer to current?
I'm not sure about that one. Someone else is handling it with support. I was told in the beginning "incremental for a week, then full backups at a week is ideal". I set it at that, but the company said don't do incremental cause they don't help in this instance I guess. So they're switching over, but we lost a day.
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@dafyre said in Remote connection manager:
@BBigford Nice! ... Do you guys not have translogs or anything to get closer to current?
We do keep translogs, but the way that he messed with it, and nobody knew until a week later, really messed with "what is really current?"
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@dafyre said in Remote connection manager:
@BBigford Nice! ... Do you guys not have translogs or anything to get closer to current?
The reason I didn't know for sure about that one cause some production systems temporarily get moved over to circular logging.
Every time that happens I chirp up with "well if we have a catastrophe, backups won't be the same." This being one of those instances... but nobody had circular logging enabled it looks like. So things weren't totally screwed.
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Remote Desktop Manager by Devolutions here.
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@sully93 said in Remote connection manager:
Remote Desktop Manager by Devolutions here.
That one is kinda pricey for just the Remote Desktop Manager, isn't it?
Edit: I stand corrected. They do offer a free version.
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For RDP connections: https://terminals.codeplex.com/
For VNC connections: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vncaddressbook/
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@Shuey said in Remote connection manager:
For RDP connections: https://terminals.codeplex.com/
For VNC connections: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vncaddressbook/
Terminals is ok... still has it's quirks too. Seems like literally every RDCM software does though.
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@zuphzuph said in Remote connection manager:
@Shuey said in Remote connection manager:
For RDP connections: https://terminals.codeplex.com/
For VNC connections: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vncaddressbook/
Terminals is ok... still has it's quirks too. Seems like literally every RDCM software does though.
The problem is that next to every non-MS RDP client I know uses the FreeRDP lib behind the scenes. That's why they all show the same quirks
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@zuphzuph said in Remote connection manager:
@Shuey said in Remote connection manager:
For RDP connections: https://terminals.codeplex.com/
For VNC connections: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vncaddressbook/
Terminals is ok... still has it's quirks too. Seems like literally every RDCM software does though.
What kind of quirks do you notice? I've never noticed any with Terminals and I've been using it for several years now (and it's continually in development). You've definitely piqued my interest now :D.
