The new and old Garmin trackers:
Andy’s Garmin tracker is the one on the right, and that model has been discontinued. The new model, the Mini 2, is on the left.
His is still working fine, but I want to make sure he has a backup if something happens to it. So I decided to buy the Mini and learn to set it up and use it. I was starting to feel comfortable using it and was feeling good about the whole thing. I was happy to give my brain a break from the initial learning curve and take my time playing with it, gradually learning more features.
Unfortunately, life is seldom that simple. Sucuri, the company that does the firewall and backups for my blog emailed me this:
Hello!
We recently rolled out a major upgrade to the Sucuri Backup platform.
However, we found that the new backup platform is unable to connect to your hosting server using the FTP/SFTP credentials you previously provided.
The most common reason for this is that your hosting server is either blocking these connections, or is configured to only allow them from specific IP addresses.
To help ensure the backup platform can connect properly, can you ensure the IP addresses linked below are allowed/whitelisted for FTP/SFTP connections as appropriate on any firewalls or security applications on your hosting server?
Please also ensure that any existing blocks are removed, as allowing the IP addresses doesn’t do this automatically on most platforms.
Our backup platform IP addresses can be found here:
https://pastebin.sucuri.net/ixzb1l3g9ysjf2o
Please let us know once this has been completed so we can re-test the backups and ensure everything is working as expected.
We will keep the ticket status set to ‘waiting’ so we can review it once we hear back.
Best regards
The Sucuri Support Team
What?? I didn’t even want to know what they were taking about. I didn’t want to deal with it. They don’t have phone support so I submitted a ticket telling them I needed help, and will forget about it until I hear from them.
In the past I used to hate having things like this hanging over my head. I would tackle problems right away and push to get them finished and off my plate. That changed a lot when I read this quote:
Work is precious. Save some for tomorrow.
So now patience it is, for the most part.
As luck would have it, Sunday’s Calvin and Hobbes reinforces that idea. Click on picture for higher resolution.
Yes! I enjoy learning new things, but I want to enjoy the process. Calvin and Hobbes are right, having fun is important. We need to keep our priorities straight.
September 23, 2025
Well I didn’t even understand what they were talking about in that email you got. I would have had to ask for help for sure.
I’m all for having fun.
Yes! Fun it is.
Great attitude, and I love Calvin and Hobbes! I am sorry about the hassle with Sucuri.
It’s been resolved. See tomorrow’s post. 🙂
…too complex for my little mind.
🙂
I just got an email from Google, it said they were deleting my account, they are not it is a scam. did you verify this is not a scam? I have no clue what any of it means and don’t want to know. yikes. good idea to wait for them to contact you…
It was real. But it has been resolved.
I wish someone would translate that message into plain English! Please let us know if they respond … or, if there’s a back-door end around.
Calvin and Hobbes is always great!
It has been resolved. See tomorrow’s post.
I hate when I get messages like that. I didn’t understand a thing in yours up above.
That was my first reaction too!
I just hand off messages like that one to Dave to deal with. I am so lucky to have him.
Here Andy does the cars and other things, I do all the computer stuff.
Forget learning new things, this is confusing and SO irritating!!! WHO would even be able to learn or even understand it? Keep me posted.
See tomorrow’s post. It turned out to be not so bad.
That looks like spam. Some of the emails look real but they look like they are trying to route you to their servers to hack into your computer. Also with no phone help, that sounds super fishy.
No, I’ve been using them for years now. It was legit.
I don’t know what those are in the first place…let alone the message you got being understandable at all to my low-tech mind–lol!
Mostly the automatic backups work fine and it gives me peace of mind,
Yes, let Calvin and Hobbs handle the techie stuff!
🙂
Good luck to you!
Thanks!
I find this confusing. I wish you all the best! I love Calvin and Hobbes. 🙂
Thanks! I love Calvin and Hobbes too. 🙂