Recent content by Richard_41

You are right.. How you explained below is how I normally do this.. install windows, take a backup, install apps take a backup. I know I have some exclusions but I think your list might be bigger/better. I did notice last night that while playing around with the windows repair screens that...

Thanks for the guidance. I started with a clean install - at least to the definition that i started with bootable media and almost certain I did delete all the existing partitions. I installed my software and did the acronis backup. It then ran for weeks. What is throwing me is that after...

I have a windows 10 PC that I use for my media server. About 5 months ago I reinstalled the machine from scratch to clean up the machine and remove applications I didnt need on the server any more. When machine was set up I added an Acronis backup schedule. It seems to run fine but every...

My original question was more about how I can figure out where this app is connecting. ESET didnt help. Glasswire did show the connection was being made and I saw a new IP pop up. Then I ran ipconfig /displaydns to see what name they were requesting. ultimtly, I likely could have just did...

Is there windows firewall software that alert on any outbound connection an app makes and ask you to approve it first. I kind of remember something like this from many years ago but couldnt anything modern. Issue is I have a piece of software that the vendor released a bad update right...

I am looking for a used service to run Milestone Xprotect. it is a multicamera surveillance software program. In the past I have run this on fairly light hardware and it isnt too hard on the cpu but it will run 24-7 I am looking for a used Supermicro 1U server on Ebay. I like supermicro as I...

Overall, i think my crashplan issue is CPU. I am pegging one of the cores of the CPU. Crashplan has a de-dupping algo that only sends the changed part of a file. In my case this was the first backup but I assume it creates the same hashes so that they can be compared against later. They...

I am doing a crashplan local backup(both boxes have 1 gig cards and connected by a 1 gig swtich). I believe my crashplan is the bottleneck . But every measurement I take is in a different unit of measure and is a bit confusing. Here is my issue. I am using Crashplan and the box to box...

this does seem like a real raid controller.

I am looking at building a server to run a camera security system. I have seen some deal on some supermicro xeon 1u servers. Many have X7DBU motherboards. These have 6 SATA ports and list as supporting a different set of raid types for windows and Linux. On a pervious server build I used...

I am setting up a small office for my brother. He needs to run the following servers. Would you virtualize these or use 3 pieces of equipment 1)Small Linux server running asterisk phone system (Small as in ATOM processor with 8 GB of storage is totally fine) 2)Medium Windows server running...

I am setting up one, maybe two, rack mount servers in my brothers small business that I want to remotely manage. This trick is I want to be able to manage it before an OS is installed. . Once these two PCs have an OS there are a ton of remote management or remote desktop tools I can use but...