Re: Robocopy monitoring keepalive

Hi Emil:

It can indeed be hard to move someone out of their comfort zone. I can't think of a one sentence reply to a business owner who says he wants it his way, but perhaps you could ask him to move one or two shares, then remap them from the SBS login batch file. Once he sees how every workstation does not need to be on to use the shares, and (if the DNS settings and WINS are setup correctly) how much better this works, he should allow you to move the rest.

rem to remap the drive letters from the workstation to the server
rem first disconnect the old drive letter

net use t: \\workstation\share /delete

net use t: \\server\share /persistent: yes

this assumes that all the workstations are using the same drive letter and will continue to do so. If not, you will have to do more work to map the drives.

note that this will throw an error the second time it is run, so you will have to add and subtract as the business owner agrees to move the shares.

-Larry

"Emil Fur***" <Emil.Fur***@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uZkq1dLIJHA.728@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
First of all, please excuse for re-posting.

I understand all your opinions and I agree with you. I just need more
arguments so I can convince my client to change the design. I myself tried
to convince him into choosing the centralised storage on the file-server
with home shares, but he insisted on having the workstation backup setup.

I can do it both ways, but I'd just prefer to have a clean and scalable
network infrastructure, having in view later changes and administration.

Thank you all,
Emil.



"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ewubxKKIJHA.1556@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Emil Fur*** <Emil.Fur***@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

Hi - did you see my reply to your other post, in which I suggested that you *not* keep data on the workstations but keep it all on the server? I also recommended that you post to the SBS group, but I didn't mean the identical post, given that I already spent quite some time replying to it. I meant future posts that pertained to SBS.

To recap - you're not making proper use of a client/server centralized network if you store data on your workstations - don't. Store it all on the server. If absolutely necessary, use offline files or similar - I use that only for laptop users, however.




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