Nick Andre wrote to Gamgee <=-

Active directory uses a database that depends on logfiles to "play
back" a set of transactions in case of failure... and apparently
depends on every file being present in the set.

A funny saying from when I worked as a backup operator decades ago: "Jesus
not only saves, he backs up too!"

Leave it to Microsoft not to have redundant backups of its logs in a
database in case of emergency...

-- Sean

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On 13 Aug 23 13:10:06, Sean Dennis said the following to Nick Andre:

A funny saying from when I worked as a backup operator decades ago: "Jesus not only saves, he backs up too!"

Leave it to Microsoft not to have redundant backups of its logs in a database in case of emergency...

I could never understand why \Windows\NTDS is "unprotected" or not hidden, because one missing log sends everything into a freakin' tailspin.

Nick

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Re: Re: Fun with domain cont
By: Sean Dennis to Nick Andre on Sun Aug 13 2023 01:10 pm

Leave it to Microsoft not to have redundant backups of its logs in a database in case of emergency...

Classic microsoft.
Speaking of backups, I should probably go make another tarchive of my system.

candycane

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Nick Andre wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I could never understand why \Windows\NTDS is "unprotected" or not
hidden, because one missing log sends everything into a freakin'
tailspin.

A design flaw. If MS took some ideas from Linux, Windows could be so, so
much better.

-- Sean

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candycane wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Classic microsoft.
Speaking of backups, I should probably go make another tarchive of my system.

Me too. I need to set up an AWS S3 Glacier instance for the BBS. I use the excellent "s3cmd" program to interact from the command line for backing up
the BBS.

Another terrific program is Duplicati which is free, open source, and can
back up to 20+ online cloud services as well as traditional services like FTP/SFTP and NFS (I think; I'd have to check again on NFS).

Also, if you want to set up a file server, I recommend XigmaNAS. Based on FreeBSD and uses ZFS for its filesystem.

-- Sean

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Re: Re: Fun with domain cont
By: Sean Dennis to Nick Andre on Mon Aug 14 2023 06:57 pm

A design flaw. If MS took some ideas from Linux, Windows could be so, so much better.

Yeah, but backwards compatibility (which to be fair is pretty good) ties their hands.

candycane

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Re: Re: Fun with domain cont
By: Sean Dennis to candycane on Mon Aug 14 2023 07:01 pm

Also, if you want to set up a file server, I recommend XigmaNAS. Based on FreeBSD and uses ZFS for its filesystem.

Neat, I have a spare rPI i could use.

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On 14 Aug 23 22:13:46, Candycane said the following to Sean Dennis:

A design flaw. If MS took some ideas from Linux, Windows could be so, s much better.

Yeah, but backwards compatibility (which to be fair is pretty good) ties the hands.

This 100%.

Nick

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On 14 Aug 23 18:57:16, Sean Dennis said the following to Nick Andre:

A design flaw. If MS took some ideas from Linux, Windows could be so, so much better.

Looking back now I wished in the 90's that Windows NT was pushed over Windows 95 and especially 98. NT wasn't perfect but was farrrrrrrr superior to 95/98.

MS should of left things totally alone with 3.1, never got involved with IBM OS/2 and instead just told the world that NT is the future Windows... yes people would of been upset to adopt with having to buy better hardware to run NT but it would of been an effective cut-off from 3.1-design to NT-design.

With 95/98 ending up being more popular than NT, that stupid flawed 3.1-era cooperative-tasking single-user mentality influenced a lot of authors to write software in a halfassed way. Then we all saw MS chasing its tail trying to
fix later on in the 2000's what NT was able to do from the beginning.... ie. reliable OS kernel, seperate profiles, user/directory permissions etc etc.

Nick

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Yeah, but backwards compatibility (which to be fair is
pretty good) ties their hands.

I'm talking of things like using a microkernel instead of a macrokernel, being able to update the OS without rebooting, support for more file systems, the ability to move the install to another computer (creating a generic setup instead of a device-specific setup), and things like that.

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Re: Re: Fun with domain cont
By: Sean Dennis to Candycane on Tue Aug 15 2023 07:42 pm

I'm talking of things like using a microkernel instead of a macrokernel,

Whats a microkernel?

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Whats a microkernel?

A microkernel is a kernel that is the heart of an operating system but it has the bare essentials and all other functionality is outside of the kernel meaning that you can have a small, fast setup if you with to configure it since Linux loads its drivers into RAM, unlike Windows which embeds its drivers into the kernel itself. This also allows one to have a very precisely configured system with no additional bloat that can be used on many different computers unlike Windows.

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