[ale] local fileserver to cloud replacement?

[Pete Hardie]

Ah.  Not one I saw used before.

BOFH is, of course, well-known

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 7:39 AM Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pimply Faced Youth
>
> https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/
>
> There are others that date back 20+ years
>
> On March 1, 2021 7:37:51 PM EST, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> PFY ?
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 7:34 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Cloud
>>>
>>> If your BOFH can't put the drives for the server in the backpack of the
>>> PFY on the way to the pub, is it really _your_ data.
>>>
>>> On March 1, 2021 7:23:34 PM EST, Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:00:03 -0500
>>>> Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Snark alert
>>>>>
>>>>> On March 1, 2021 4:02:43 PM EST, Solomon Peachy via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 03:48:49PM -0500, Brent Laminack via Ale
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Our organization wants to move about 3.5Tb of data from a local
>>>>>>> file
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> server
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (windows server 2012 R2) to a cloud-based solution. We want to use
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> OneLogin
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> for SSO and provisioning. What would you recommend? Office
>>>>>>> 365/Sharepoint/OneDrive? Google Workspaces? Box? Nextcloud? any
>>>>>>> recommendations or anti-recommendations would be welcome. Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Questions:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  * How many folks need to get to it
>>>>>>  * Using what mechanism(s)
>>>>>>  * Write-once, or more adhoc?
>>>>>>  * Who manages accounts?
>>>>>>  * Privacy (/regulatory) requirements
>>>>>>  * Reliability requirements
>>>>>>  * Bandwidth/performance requirements
>>>>>>  * Budget
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In other words, "why are you moving it outside your firewall?"
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Because a beancounter read an article about how everything is moving
>>>>> to the cloud and having that on the resume looks good for the next
>>>>> job.
>>>>>
>>>>> I love that feeling of permanence knowing if I don't pay on time
>>>>> every month it all shuts down. And mounting a filesystem over the
>>>>> interwebs is screaming fast (if the user experience is discounted).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> AAAAAND:
>>>>
>>>> I love that feeling of security knowing that the vendor will back up
>>>> regularly, with total restoreability, as if the data were their own.
>>>> And the fact that I can back it up locally on a 100MBps Internet line
>>>> at 80 seconds per Terrabyte *if* nobody else is using your Internet
>>>> line and if every single cable, device and router between you and them
>>>> is capable of 100mbit. If not, it's nothing a few hours of rsync will
>>>> do it. The vendor won't charge much for your traffic, right?
>>>>
>>>> Also, it your data is sensitive, you can relax, knowing that the
>>>> vendors' server farms in the nation of Northwest Barfalonia, where
>>>> privacy laws are nonexistent, will vet all their employees and prevent
>>>> them from looking at your data (and blackmailing you).
>>>>
>>>> SteveT
>>>>
>>>> Steve Litt
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