jacobwilliamroy

I am looking at migrating a Windows server (Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard) and I am wondering if there is some way to learn what files are being read. I know the operating system keeps this metadata but I have also learned that this metadata is unreliable. Is there a third party tool or some kind of powershell script I can use to track this data?

I'm talking about greater than 5 TB in size. Rclone looks really good because I can just give it a bandwidth limit, point it at google drive and fire and forget. But I'm curious if that is the best way to do this? What does HN think?

So to make a very long story short, at my job we are using Storage Replica to replicate two servers that are sitting right next to each other: one server is a mirror of the other and vice versa. We are using Storage Replica to do this since these are Windows servers but I have a few really big problems with Storage Replica:

1) The documentation is very poor

2) There is no way to configure automated failover in our current server-to-server configuration (I've been at this for over forty hours. Don't ask. It's not possible)

3) We would want to have a third, client computer that is able to manage the Windows Storage Replica servers but Storage Replica is a Windows Server feature and so can only be installed on Windows servers which the client is not

Is there another availability solution which does not share these flaws with Storage Replica? I am currently researching such but I am having a hard time searching the web for a Storage Replica replacement so I am also asking here if anybody knows of one.

So I have an SFTP server [Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 6.8.0-55-generic x86_64)] and an SFTP client (Windows 11): the client downloads files from the SFTP server. I had an idea to implement integrity checks by hashing the file on server side and also hashing the client's copy of the file after it is downloaded, then comparing the hashes to ensure the data was downloaded correctly. My question is: should I spend time implementing this? Does the OS already do this? This seems like something an OS should do.

Windows licensing is really complicated: I never know how much it's going to cost, how long it's going to take, for example, to install Windows 11 Pro on 80 different computers. Or it's not clear what the upgrade path would be from Windows 7 home to Windows 11 Pro. Is there something I can read or a course I can take so I can learn more about Windows licensing?

So at work I wrote some python to match colors in photoshop. Basically it takes a CMYK color, an attribute (lightness, hue, chroma) a direction (-1 or +1) and a scale factor between 0 and 1 and it picks a certain number of colors from a database for which only that attribute is modified. The good news is that it works, but there are two problems: 1) it's really slow taking around 2-3 minutes and 2) it produces a lot of garbage which right now I work around by just increasing the number of colors for it to pick, which does not make it go slower. I figure it's time to ask for help. Where do I go to talk to people about this? Is there like an IRC channel or a forum for graphic design? I know Onyx Graphics has a product that does a similar thing and it's a lot smaller and faster than my solution but it doesn't work in every case.

I've been trying to program a google sheet using Apps Script but most of the time, when I have an idea how to do something, it turns out that my idea is not something Apps Script can do and I have to implement it myself. For example, I thought there would be a function where you put in a number and it spits out a string of letters: 1 maps to "A", 27 maps to "AA". It turns out apps script has no such function and I had to implement it myself.

Apps Script has a huge API but I barely use it mostly because it doesn't really do anything I want to do. The fact that I'm not really using the API tells me I'm doing something wrong. Is there a book I was supposed to read or something? I already read the documentation google provides and it wasn't really helpful.