I'm not sure what you mean?
MangoPenguin
joined 1 year ago
the issue is when the OS forcefully installs that update and breaks your system without you doing anything.
The crowdstrike update was pushed out by their own software I thought, not the windows update system?
Plus crowdstrike has caused similar issues with Linux systems before, so the solution is to just not use crowdstrike and similar solutions on any OS.
The issue is not that Windows had a broken update, that can happen and it’s fine, the issue is when the OS forcefully installs that update and breaks your system without you doing anything.
I would have thought most businesses with windows would do staged rollouts.
Gotcha, that's handy.
Honestly just replace the CMOS battery on a schedule if it's a big deal, a UPS is nice to have but it doesn't really solve that specific problem.
Some BIOS manufacturers allow you to disable all halts on errors.
That will be reset to default if the CMOS battery is dead and power is removed though.
Server hardware will reset CMOS if the battery goes dead too.
You're not really at risk of DDOS in that case, I wouldn't worry about it.
Yeah sounds like snapshots is the way to go!
Oooh yeah I can imagine RAIDz2 on top of using spinning disks would be very slow, especially with access times enabled on ZFS.
What backup software are you using? I've found restic to be reasonably fast.
You start the backup, db is backed up, now image assets are being copied. That could take an hour.
For the initial backup maybe, but subsequent incrementals should only take a minute or two.
I don't bother stopping services, it's too time intensive to deal with setting that up.
I've yet to meet any service that can't recover smoothly from a kill -9 equivalent, any that did sure wouldn't be in my list of stuff I run anymore.
Can't say I've ever had issues, but PeaZip is good and integrates nicely.
I find quite often that the Live version of a distro will work perfectly, but after install some hardware won't work anymore.