Amiga File Server - Page 115

Viceroy · 14 February 2019, 21:56

Just the windows virus checker built in to W10

zipper · 15 February 2019, 13:31

I suppose it craps on that old stuff on the Iso, 52 files in the Bin drawer and total 3712 unpacked; F-Secure finds nothing. If you can nominate something suspect it could be still sent to https://www.virustotal.com/ to be scanned by 60+ scanning engines.

pgovotsos · 20 February 2019, 23:38

I often get warnings from anti-virus programs on Windows when copying Amiga files. I have no idea why a Windows program would flag an Amiga program that can't run under Windows. I just hit ignore and it works fine.

It seems like badly written rules are doing it. The first few times I submitted them to the support for the program and they updated so they weren't recognized as a virus anymore. After the first few I stopped bothering and just ignore them.

The specific programs I use are Eset and Malwarebytes. Make sure that you turn off the setting to automatically quarantine suspected files. Malwarebytes has this set by default and moves them even when you ignore. I consider that a bug but they won't change the quarantine behavior.

Dunny · 21 February 2019, 00:45

It's all just bytes, innit? A Windows AV program won't be aware of what the executable format for an Amiga file is, nor what 68k code looks like - it just looks for patterns of x86 code that are known to be associated with the things that PC viruses do. And because all files are simply lists of numbers, those certain sequences that are flagged on a PC may be entirely innocuous on an Amiga - but there's no real reason for the AV to know that, and nor should there be.

BullyDog · 21 February 2019, 01:16

That's quite true. It looks for patterns recognized as a viral infections and flag em as such.

Seeing that the Amiga files are nowhere near Windows executables I would say that it's safe to ignores the flags.

Leandro Jardim · 21 February 2019, 19:45

Nevermind, sorry...

Falcon57 · 22 February 2019, 03:33

Hello,
I have uploded some files in ~Upload zone under my name Falcon57

Games - Public Domain
Psycho Squares Deluxe v1.0 (1994)(Dark Unicorn)(SW)[h Floppy International][AMOS]
Pyramid Game, The (1994)(Pacific)(SW)[h Floppy International][AMOS]

Applications - Public Domain
VideoMaxe v04.20 (1993)(Sürken, Stephan)(SW)[h Floppy International]

Turran · 27 February 2019, 15:42

FTP server have an issue so its down for a little.

Edit: After a restart, the boot disk has no partition. Very fun. I can either try for days to fix the disk or restore it from a backup. Sadly, the full disk image backup is one year old. It boots from that one but I now have to restore all the FTP users / web contents and database stuff from yesterdays backup.
The data itself on the FTP is on another disk which is fine so no worries there (also numerous backups on everything).

Use the google drive if you need something right now!

Edit2: Looking good so far. Good Disaster Recovery exercise if nothing else... Still working on it so not up yet.

Edit3: Done with the restore. Taking a fresh disk dump in case something like it happens again. Should be up within the hour.

Edit4: And we're back!

Turran · 27 February 2019, 21:03

Default setting for the FTP server I am running is "max users:300" and we've hit that. So those of you who got a "sorry, no more users allowed on site" error when trying to register, try again. I've raised the limit.

DamienD · 27 February 2019, 21:20

Cheers for fixing do quickly Turran

NLS · 27 February 2019, 23:44

But how did it loose the partition?
If just the disk map was messed, it could be recovered in minutes, not days.

Turran · 28 February 2019, 08:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by NLS

But how did it loose the partition?
If just the disk map was messed, it could be recovered in minutes, not days.

Tried that. Did not find any superblocks on it. No idea. My guess its vspheres Virtual Flash Read Cache that messed up. Turned that crap off as it messed things up for me in the past.

NLS · 28 February 2019, 11:27

Yikes. At least all ok now.
Thanks for keeping this strong.

Falcon57 · 07 March 2019, 21:02

Hello,
I have uploded some files in ~Upload zone under my name Falcon57

Games - Public Domain
Malediction v2.0 (1994-12)(D'Heeger, Sebastien)(AGA)(en-fr)(SW)(Disk 1 of 2)[h Floppy International]
Malediction v2.0 (1994-12)(D'Heeger, Sebastien)(AGA)(en-fr)(SW)(Disk 2 of 2)[h Floppy International]

wobbly · 08 March 2019, 02:32

is the server down ?
I can not login with my old login..
or has something changed ?

DamienD · 08 March 2019, 09:16

Works fine here wobbly

Just checked the EAB File Server Admin console and your account looks fine i.e. not disabled or deleted.

Turran · 09 March 2019, 09:57

Some fun stats. Note that "last year" only goes from May 2018 - Dec 2018 so the numbers are missing 5 months.

Quote:

Download stats for the "ftp" account last month
Total Files: 1037352
Total Downloaded: 852.80 GiB
Unique IPs: 2705

Download stats for the "ftp" account this year so far
Total Files: 3009686
Total Downloaded: 2109.80 GiB
Unique IPs: 6394

Download stats for the "ftp" account last year
Total Files: 10270421
Total Downloaded: 9657.67 GiB
Unique IPs: 17529

Crashdisk · 10 March 2019, 22:55

Small questions about the GoogleDrive mirror.
How does synchronization work? How often is it updated?

Turran · 11 March 2019, 17:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crashdisk

Small questions about the GoogleDrive mirror.
How does synchronization work? How often is it updated?

The FTP server just uses google drive (https://rclone.org/drive/) to do a rsync. This is done at midnight each day (CET).

Leandro Jardim · 27 March 2019, 01:29

Turran, sorry for asking, but did you slow down the server speed? I ask because I have a 5 Mbps connection, but when I download I can only reach the average of 80 Kbps.

By coincidence that was since I changed my laptop, and I'm not sure what's happening. HTTP transfers are normal but transfers to your FTP are slow. (the login itself is fast)

15 February 2019, 13:31	#2282
zipper Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: finland Posts: 1,837	I suppose it craps on that old stuff on the Iso, 52 files in the Bin drawer and total 3712 unpacked; F-Secure finds nothing. If you can nominate something suspect it could be still sent to https://www.virustotal.com/ to be scanned by 60+ scanning engines. Last edited by zipper; 15 February 2019 at 13:39.

21 February 2019, 19:45	#2286
Leandro Jardim Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Legoland Age: 45 Posts: 1,461	Nevermind, sorry... Last edited by Leandro Jardim; 21 February 2019 at 22:44.

27 February 2019, 15:42	#2288
Turran Moderator Join Date: May 2012 Location: Stockholm / Sweden Age: 49 Posts: 1,571	FTP server have an issue so its down for a little. Edit: After a restart, the boot disk has no partition. Very fun. I can either try for days to fix the disk or restore it from a backup. Sadly, the full disk image backup is one year old. It boots from that one but I now have to restore all the FTP users / web contents and database stuff from yesterdays backup. The data itself on the FTP is on another disk which is fine so no worries there (also numerous backups on everything). Use the google drive if you need something right now! Edit2: Looking good so far. Good Disaster Recovery exercise if nothing else... Still working on it so not up yet. Edit3: Done with the restore. Taking a fresh disk dump in case something like it happens again. Should be up within the hour. Edit4: And we're back! Last edited by Turran; 27 February 2019 at 20:20.

27 March 2019, 01:29	#2300
Leandro Jardim Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Legoland Age: 45 Posts: 1,461	Turran, sorry for asking, but did you slow down the server speed? I ask because I have a 5 Mbps connection, but when I download I can only reach the average of 80 Kbps. By coincidence that was since I changed my laptop, and I'm not sure what's happening. HTTP transfers are normal but transfers to your FTP are slow. (the login itself is fast) Last edited by Leandro Jardim; 27 March 2019 at 11:57.

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14 February 2019, 21:56	#2281
Viceroy Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sunderland Posts: 946	Just the windows virus checker built in to W10

20 February 2019, 23:38	#2283
pgovotsos Registered User Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: US Posts: 284	I often get warnings from anti-virus programs on Windows when copying Amiga files. I have no idea why a Windows program would flag an Amiga program that can't run under Windows. I just hit ignore and it works fine. It seems like badly written rules are doing it. The first few times I submitted them to the support for the program and they updated so they weren't recognized as a virus anymore. After the first few I stopped bothering and just ignore them. The specific programs I use are Eset and Malwarebytes. Make sure that you turn off the setting to automatically quarantine suspected files. Malwarebytes has this set by default and moves them even when you ignore. I consider that a bug but they won't change the quarantine behavior.

21 February 2019, 00:45	#2284
Dunny Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Scunthorpe/United Kingdom Posts: 1,975	It's all just bytes, innit? A Windows AV program won't be aware of what the executable format for an Amiga file is, nor what 68k code looks like - it just looks for patterns of x86 code that are known to be associated with the things that PC viruses do. And because all files are simply lists of numbers, those certain sequences that are flagged on a PC may be entirely innocuous on an Amiga - but there's no real reason for the AV to know that, and nor should there be.

21 February 2019, 01:16	#2285
BullyDog Registered User Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Texas USA Age: 73 Posts: 184	That's quite true. It looks for patterns recognized as a viral infections and flag em as such. Seeing that the Amiga files are nowhere near Windows executables I would say that it's safe to ignores the flags.

22 February 2019, 03:33	#2287
Falcon57 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2018 Location: France Posts: 12	Hello, I have uploded some files in ~Upload zone under my name Falcon57 Games - Public Domain Psycho Squares Deluxe v1.0 (1994)(Dark Unicorn)(SW)[h Floppy International][AMOS] Pyramid Game, The (1994)(Pacific)(SW)[h Floppy International][AMOS] Applications - Public Domain VideoMaxe v04.20 (1993)(Sürken, Stephan)(SW)[h Floppy International]

27 February 2019, 21:03	#2289
Turran Moderator Join Date: May 2012 Location: Stockholm / Sweden Age: 49 Posts: 1,571	Default setting for the FTP server I am running is "max users:300" and we've hit that. So those of you who got a "sorry, no more users allowed on site" error when trying to register, try again. I've raised the limit.

27 February 2019, 21:20	#2290
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	Cheers for fixing do quickly Turran

27 February 2019, 23:44	#2291
NLS Ancient User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: GREECE Age: 50 Posts: 757	But how did it loose the partition? If just the disk map was messed, it could be recovered in minutes, not days.

28 February 2019, 11:27	#2293
NLS Ancient User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: GREECE Age: 50 Posts: 757	Yikes. At least all ok now. Thanks for keeping this strong.

07 March 2019, 21:02	#2294
Falcon57 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2018 Location: France Posts: 12	Hello, I have uploded some files in ~Upload zone under my name Falcon57 Games - Public Domain Malediction v2.0 (1994-12)(D'Heeger, Sebastien)(AGA)(en-fr)(SW)(Disk 1 of 2)[h Floppy International] Malediction v2.0 (1994-12)(D'Heeger, Sebastien)(AGA)(en-fr)(SW)(Disk 2 of 2)[h Floppy International]

08 March 2019, 02:32	#2295
wobbly Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 130	is the server down ? I can not login with my old login.. or has something changed ?

08 March 2019, 09:16	#2296
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	Works fine here wobbly Just checked the EAB File Server Admin console and your account looks fine i.e. not disabled or deleted.

10 March 2019, 22:55	#2298
Crashdisk Moderator Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: France Age: 46 Posts: 1,982	Small questions about the GoogleDrive mirror. How does synchronization work? How often is it updated?

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