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Re: OT: Backup Software Recommendations?by telcontar (Beadle) |
on Feb 02, 2007 at 12:04 UTC ( [id://597928]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Just thought I'd add a note about backing up local machines. I think that's generally the wrong approach, and an indication that you might have set up your infrastructure incorrectly. Now I might be wrong, as I do not know your setup exactly, and I do not even know what OS your clients run on. But, if they are windows, you really should map "my documents" and the desktop to a network drive on a file server. That's best practice in such environments (yaheee, Active Directory), it's done with GPOs and Folder Redirection. I've set this up more than once and it works quite well. Backups while machines run can be done with Volume Shadow Copy Service. Etc ... If your clients run on *NIX, use NFS. But data should be stored in a central location, preferably on a server with at least mirroring RAID (depends on the $$$, but you RAID1 is cheaper than data loss ...). As for your requirements:
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