Re: Workstation backup

What about such solution like Symantec with DLO option or other I do not know?


MarcusB

Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS] wrote:
Hello MarcusB,

Lanwench give s you the best two possibilities you can use, folder redirection and/or offline folders. So you have to choose with the risk that offline folder's are not that optimal solution.

So create a batch file for the users on there desktop to run a robocopy command to copy one special folder from the local machine to the network with updating only the changes they made in the network location. Then the user has the option with one mouseclick to backup it's data to the network. With the correct robocopy switches, ofcourse you have to test, that will work.

You will not find an automated way without using folder redirection and/or offline folder.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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It is company data but users mostly work from home without connecting
to
the network att all.
Our Environmental Policy motivate people to work at home, thus they do
not need drive to work if they can do the work from home. Usually they
are 2 times per week at the department. They do not need Internet to
do
their work therefore many of them are not connected to the network at
home.
Therefore solution which will make backup when they are back at the
department and when they work on the network will be the best. On the
server can be copy of their local data but the last one is always on
the
local workstation.
Any suggestion?

MarcusB

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:

MarcusB <marcusb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi, You see, therefore folder redirections is nothing to have. Many
people at our department want backup of their local folders. I tried
Symantec with DLO options but it showed up that backup is somehow
encrypted and compresed thus you are not able to read it without the
software used to make backup.

That's normal.

The best solution so far was running script starting robocopy but
than we don not have control if the script stoped working or not.

Correct.

I think your users are not the ones who should make the decision
about where
to store company data or how to back it up. It's your job to make
sure they
have a reliable and safe place to store their data & from which to
access
it. However, I've made my
suggestions and of course it's your network to run - good luck.
/MarcusB

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:

MarcusB <marcusb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think that desktop users should also have all files locally.
They will not accept if the newtork will be down and they can not
work

If the network goes down (as in, all servers are gone) then you
don't *want* them to work. Offline files can be dangerous - I have
seen many people lose data. And even for laptop users you would
never want to make *shared* data available offline, anyway; just
data to which only the user has access. The right thing to do here
is
make sure you've got a reliable
network and it doesn't go down often.
MArcusB

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:

MarcusB <marcusb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes we have 200 workstation and AD with 3 domain controlers.
Worksations are most laptops which are not conected all the time
therefore I do not know if folder redirection will do the think.
Do you think?

Yes, you should use folder redirection (with offline files
enabled for laptop users; disabled for desktop users). No data
should reside exclusively on a workstation.

MarcusB
Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
MarcusB <marcusb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What backup software you can recommend for making backup of
the
workstations. Lets suppose we want that My Documents folders
will be backed up on all workstation. Every time new file is
created or the old is updated backup will be done.
We want that backup will be not encrypted and we can read it
without need to have any software.
MarcusB

Workstation backups are slow and error prone, and are best
avoided. The real answer is to store all your data on the
server. Do you use AD? If so, you can use group policy to set
up folder redirection for My Docs, Desktop, and Application
Data, even. If you don't use AD, you can at least re-point
everyone's My Documents manually to their own folder/drive
letter on the server.



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