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Aug 11 2019, 08:29 PM |
I am really not looking forward to work tomorrow. On Friday morning I switched on my computer by my machine, it wouldn't open up my database located on the server, it said "Unrecognisable format", I tried again, same result, reboot same result. All of my databases are backed up to three locations AND locally on my hard drive so that if the server dies I can still get to my stuff. The same thing happened with the local files.
I logged onto another workstation to try there, at that point one of the lads said "Phil, my shortcuts are saying "location unavailable or location moved", then another lad said the same, then another lad said "Phil, all of my CNC programs have the words "No more ransom" after them and they won't open. Long story short, the server did a backup over night and got infected with some malware, anyone who logged on that morning got all of the modified files. Luckily our general manager came in late, I had disconnected his computer from the server so he still had a clean backup from late Friday afternoon (it backs up any changed files every half hour or so). Tomorrow the company that looks after our server and all IT is coming in but it looks like a long day possibly into the night with big headaches -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Aug 11 2019, 09:32 PM |
Yeah we discussed isolating thing but the production schedule showing due dates, what stage in production things are at etc needs to be viewed by all operators with different levels of what can be seen, also the operating systems need updating regularly etc.
I've just ordered a second lap top for accessing the server and the Internet and my engineering stuff will be on an isolated laptop. It will still be a ball ache because as I complete each batch of components I record it on an excel database and copy & paste the info into an email to the people that answer the phones so it's in their head and easier than keep opening up the production schedule. Have to be done manually now ffs. Want the wanna cry virus in 2017? We have Avast Business AV which I would have thought would have old stuff covered. This post has been edited by Phil66: Aug 11 2019, 09:34 PM -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Aug 12 2019, 06:32 AM |
I'll let you know how it goes.
-------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Aug 12 2019, 08:11 PM |
Well, it's coming in at around £2000 at the moment, he says four days to install three new hard drives into the server, disinfect all workstations, upgrade any computers that are running XP or lower to Win10, set up the network and test. He normally charges £400 per day but is doing it for £300 per day, and has capped it to four days, if it goes over there will be no extra charge.
When we first installed the server it took around three days to get it all installed with the emails and the drive mapping to 10 workstations etc so it doesn't seem too bad. On top of that, I've ordered another laptop for me so I'll have one connected to the server and one isolated, a 500gb external drive to back it up and a box of 16gb USB sticks for internal use only including visitors like the accountant who likes to have a backup of the accounts. We will also have to replace any computers that can't handle Win10, all of the computers except for three just connect to the server, they don't have internet or email access. -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Aug 12 2019, 09:28 PM |
Well we pay this guy for a service contract to look after things for us, his company also fitted our cctv, our general manager's cctv and one of the other director's cctv, so he does look after us. Our general manager knows quite a lot about computers and networking but can be a little too frugal trying to save money.
I'm going to ask about a three tier backup, grand parent > parent > child rather than the single update that we currently do now. We currently use SyncBack but could do with one that can do an intelligent tiered backup, you have schedule over 7 days in SyncBack which isn't helpful with three tiers on individual drives. Cheers Phil This post has been edited by Phil66: Aug 13 2019, 06:31 AM -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Aug 13 2019, 06:31 AM |
Cheers Todd.
I had forgotten, our GM did do a manual two tiered backup to external hard drives which he keeps at home. Phil This post has been edited by Phil66: Aug 13 2019, 10:43 AM -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Aug 17 2019, 08:24 PM |
Well it's finally up and running, need some new data transfer software for some of the CNC machines as the computers were running XP and now all are Win10.
Many creases to iron out so a few more headaches and we'll be good. -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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