Re: Backing Up


"Brandy Nee [MSFT]" wrote:
Hello Chris,

Thank you for posting to the SBS Newsgroup.

I understand that you want to know how to backup Windows XP client
workstations.

Please see my reply:

1> Please understand that Windows XP Home edition cannot join SBS Server,
therefore you cannot manage them centrally (on SBS Server level). If you
only want the XP Home edition clients to be able to access shared resources
on the network, the answer should be Yes as long as the XP HE users have
the domain user accounts with the appropriate permissions over the shared
resources.

2> Windows XP Professional can join the SBS domain. As Dave suggested, you
can enable My Document folder redirection for those Windows XP Professional
clients and backup the SBS Server regularly. Please see my general steps:

a. Open Server Management\Standard Management\Shares.
b. On the right pane, click Configure My Documents Redirection.

For more detail information, please see:

Recommendations for Folder Redirection
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/DepKi
t/2b24872a-05ca-41be-9887-33acc87a2056.mspx

Group Policy Recommendations for Folder Redirection
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/DepKi
t/616ca5d0-cc7e-46c9-b00f-1f926506435c.mspx

3> Please understand that the NTBackup and the SBS Backup Wizard on the SBS
Server is only used for backup SBS Server itself, not domain client
workstations. From your description, I understand that most of your clients
save those important documents on a SBS Server shared folder, in this case,
I suggest that you backup your SBS server regularly. May I know what exact
goal you want to achieve to back up whole client workstations, please?

To backup SBS Server, please see our Backup and Restore White Paper:

Backing Up and Restoring Windows Small Business Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=487736f8-f6f5-436d-
a82d-0c8d66e2a634&DisplayLang=en

Hope it helps! If you have any further questions or concerns, please feel
free to let me know. I am glad to be of further assistance!

Best regards,

Brandy Nee

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Subject: Backing Up
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I am a Part time IT guy at a real estate management corprate office.
They own about 20-25 apartments that we have managers at that do their
own thing there and have important word docs, excel spreadsheets just
stuff like that. We run a Windows Server 2003 SBS at the office that
the users their put it all on a shared public drive that is in the
Server PC and then that gets backed up on a tape. They all run Windows
XP Home edition but i think a few have Pro but......

I just need some advice on what i can do to backup their pcs without
going to the apartments everyday and do a backup. USB Flash drives for
all the properties maybe? If anyone has a good idea on what i can do to
backup all of their PC's please let me know. Thank You!





I dont think you guys are following me very well. These people are not
in the same building as us they are all over the city and some even
outside the city. Just trying to get some solutions/advice on what i
can do to backup these people's computers off site if possible

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