Some Notes on the Machines

By default, at least sometimes, Microsoft OneDrive does not have any backup mechanism in place at all. There is a Previous Versions system however which can be turned on and off:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Restore-a-previous-version-of-a-document-in-OneDrive-for-Business-159cad6d-d76e-4981-88ef-de6e96c93893?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

Here’s a great set of steps for these:

http://blog.jocha.se/tech/azure-ad-sync-event-error-6126-and-6127

The short of it is:

1. Bring up the Syncronization Service Manager (“Synchronization Service” in Windows search),
2. Click on Connectors,
3. Click on “Active Directory Domain Services”,
4. Click Run in the right pane, choose Full Synchronization, click OK, and wait for completion to be reported (it’s fairly obvious),
5. Click Run in the right pane, choose Full Import, click OK, and wait for completion to be reported,
6. Click Windows Azure Active Directory,
7. and do the same two Runs as for the other line item.

For Debian-based and RPM:

http://t-e.cc/install-btsync-on-ubuntu-14-04-from-official-repo/

Prioritizing certain kinds of data, can help a lot in general on Linux. Here’s the FireQOS configuration I just set up on this 802.11g-wireless laptop:

DEVICE=wlan0
INPUT_SPEED=54000kbit
OUTPUT_SPEED=54000kbit
LINKTYPE="ethernet"
interface $DEVICE world-in input rate $INPUT_SPEED
interface $DEVICE world-out output rate $OUTPUT_SPEED

interface $DEVICE world-in input rate $INPUT_SPEED $LINKTYPE balanced
	class priority commit 10%
		match tcp port 22,3389,53,444  # SSH, RDP, DNS, SSL VPN
		match proto GRE
		match icmp
		match tcp syn
		match tcp ack

interface $DEVICE world-out output rate $OUTPUT_SPEED $LINKTYPE balanced
	class priority commit 10%
		match tcp port 22,3389,53,444
		match proto GRE
		match icmp
		match tcp syn
		match tcp ack

Google stores all of your historical Google searches, YouTube video searches and views, and lots of other interesting things. Here’s a new tool to control this.

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

Some articles:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff384840(v=vs.85).aspx).aspx

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2014/06/25/the-end-is-nigh-for-frs/

Here’s a tool. Run this once as administrator on the drive to check, wait 20 seconds and do it again, and if it says you’re good, you are.

http://files.thecybershadow.net/trimcheck/

The current one, official, is described here:

https://blog.resilio.com/official-linux-packages-for-sync-now-available/

This one’s new and comes recommended, I have not tested it yet:

https://www.pcloud.com/cloud-storage-pricing-plans.html

This is very interesting:

http://anydesk.com/