Posts made by PSX_Defector

Not here mind you.

I just pulled the cardinal sin. I insulted a moderator, not even in a joking sense.

Let's see how quick my profile gets deleted at the place that shall not be mentioned.

@scottalanmiller said:

Joint community keg stand time!

I'll take the joint.

If you RDP to it straight from the internet, no, not really.

If you VPN into the network, pull the gateway off the thing. It won't be able to get to the internet but will be seen in the local network.

@Bill-Kindle said:

@PSX_Defector said:

@Bill-Kindle said:

@PSX_Defector 5mill objects? What the hell was that? It sounds like fun in itself.

A certain movie website's back end image server. 5mil might be a bit of an understatement. Customer has two hosts, both of them got borked on it's settings at the same folder level. My colleague who was working on it yesterday at this time did it via the GUI and was still at work until 6:00PM. I been doing it piecemeal via the command line, which seems to be moving very fast. I've got permissions on folders laid out, just applying it to the individual objects.

I'm just watching the number fly by.

I see, that sounds like a boat load of fun. Using any PowerShell or is this *nix kind of stuff?

Wish it was Unix. chmod -r 777 and we are good to go. Nope, good old Windows 2003 and the command takeown.

A little early for scotch. It's still well before noon, and that would be a sin.

Beer is beer, it's good and good for you. It has all your necessary vitamin A's and B's, where when you drink scotch all you get is vitamin A and S. Sometime P.

@Katie said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I'm on cup three of my coffee here.

Only cup 1 - I think I may need a drink tonight after hours.

After hours? What is this after hours you speak of?

I'm drinking one right now.

Probably means that a certain someone has left the building.

@Bill-Kindle said:

Even I got BH'd for saying tally-ho because I quoted PSX, no words, no pics. Interesting day indeed.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was because of the "[F] this thread, I'm out" image. Collateral damage and all.

@Bill-Kindle said:

@PSX_Defector 5mill objects? What the hell was that? It sounds like fun in itself.

A certain movie website's back end image server. 5mil might be a bit of an understatement. Customer has two hosts, both of them got borked on it's settings at the same folder level. My colleague who was working on it yesterday at this time did it via the GUI and was still at work until 6:00PM. I been doing it piecemeal via the command line, which seems to be moving very fast. I've got permissions on folders laid out, just applying it to the individual objects.

I'm just watching the number fly by.

Try to be vague, but get "Huh?" instead.

Let's put it this way, it was all about butthurt.

Between my having to apply permissions to a folder that contains ~5,000,000+ objects and a call from someone from a place that shall not be named, it's been a rather interesting day.

Or you can get out of that area and come to Dallas. We always need generalists, mostly because we work on so many different technologies.

Just yesterday I was working with the backup engineering team on resolving an issue with a slow backup. I had to know Windows VSS cache settings, identify network ports, read Cisco configurations, and understand Commvault and it's fun with the tape libraries.

@RobQ said:

@PSX_Defector I'm one dude, and if we have a disaster I'll be pulled in a million directions. So installing OS's is something I'd rather not do.

Then keep some base templates with the info. Restoring the OS is about a five minute deal in that case. Installing from scratch is ~45 minutes to get to a functional OS level. Restoration is what is gonna take a long time.

Either way, it's set it and forget it for the most part in a "holy shit the world is ending" scenario. Most often your gonna be doing restores of morons who jacked with the files. Or like what greeted me this morning, someone jacking with all the permissions on their content server, all 4,000,000 images.

PCL to PS conversion.

With regards to backups, why the hell do you need a bare metal backup? It takes minutes to rebuild an OS and with Unitrends doing a system state restore is pretty simple as well. That's the only thing you get when you backup the individual VHDs.

I would stick with Vmware. If not for any specific reason than it just works. Plus you have goons who know it pretty well.

For hardware, yeah, no need for a SAN. Perhaps the Dell VRTX would be up your alley?

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-vrtx/pd

I've bought a similar product from these guys in the past. Wouldn't do a server with it, but I have done a patch panel and switch with it. Works great.

@Dashrender said:

Where's A.J. or PFX when you need them?

Busy. Stupid implementation engineers not testing shit before sending it out to support. You don't need to team a heartbeat NIC for a cluster.

With that and being on call over the weekend, I haven't had a chance to do anything this week.

@Nic said:

@Dashrender said:

@Nic said:

Get an ASUS:
http://www.amazon.com/RT-AC66U-802-11ac-Dual-Band-Wireless-AC1750-Gigabit/dp/B008ABOJKS/
Put Tomato on it, and then crank up the power until you drown out your neighbors. At least that is what I do because I live in an apartment and can see 30+ wireless networks from my unit.

So you're the reason I can't get online.

There will be no flashing another firmware.

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

Only if you live next to me Actually the reason I started doing it was because someone else was drowning out my signal. I got a signal strength app on my phone and my own router wasn't the strongest signal in my own apartment.

You know, they have these things called "channels" that allow you to reside on another frequency to prevent this kind of crosstalk. I recommend channel 13.

See, this is what happens when you got non-techs on a tech board. N00b!

I would grab a LiveCD version and use Pendrive to set it up on the USB stick.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

Then it's just a matter of fixing the host to ensure it will boot from USB.

The full blown installer looks slightly different though.