Re: Robocopy monitoring keep alive

By "shares" I meant the administrative shares that Robocopy will use to sync
data from workstations' partitions with the storage location on the server.

The whole ideea is that users store their data on workstations (partitions
other than the system one), and then have a backup of these data with
robocopy /MON on the file-server. It is a design that the client insisted
on, but at the moment I try to convince him to have it in a standard setup
(home shares on the server).
I also think the workstations backup is a bad ideea from the start, but he
would not have a standard file-server infrastructure from the beginning.

Emil.



"Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message
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Hello Emil,

My suggestion will be to remove shares on the local machines and use the
server as central data location with either one share with subfolders and
correct NTFS permissions for the users/groups of the domain or create for
anybody one share with ofcourse also correct NTFS permissions. You will
create
your own a big overhead of work with the syncronizong of local shares to
a server. And then run a backupo to tape or other harddisk from the server
share, so you are sure that you alwways can restore data.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Hello everyone,

I need to keep in sync shares from about 15 workstations with a vackup
location on the file server (it will be a 2008 SBS server).

I've read Robocopy's documentation, and in my opinion it is very good
for
what I need. I intend to run it with /MON parameter, so it will keep
in sync
all the shares I need backed up.
I intend to start Robocopy at start of the (2008 SBS) system, so it
will
stay resident and keep shares in sync with the backup location on the
server.
My concern is how to detect when the robocopy process has died and
re-initiate the robocopy command again.
Do you have any suggestions ?

Thank you,
Emil.




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