Backing Up Laptops In a Small Business?

Bithmus writes "I have been tasked with finding a way for our company to handle our laptop backups. We currently have nightly backups of our servers, but no backups of laptops. In our business we develop, implement, and sell another company's software; I guess that makes us a Valued Added Reseller. During development our consultants will create copies of a customer's database on MSDE on their laptops. If a hard drive crashes, all of the work done on that laptop is lost. There are other files that need to be saved, but the databases are really the important items. Ideally these databases would be stored on the SQL servers and the other files stored on the file server, but this is not happening. What do Slashdot readers do to protect data on laptops or computers outside of a local network?"

Comments

Re:File synchronization... If you must...

[Scutter]

The system works well, and for small businesses can easily store 1.5TB of data on a single 250MB HDD (make sure to mirror).

Really? That's some AMAZING compression. Still, where would you find a 250MB hard drive these days?

Re:File synchronization... If you must...

[Penguinshit]

I hacked early versions of this software back when we were backing up PCs running Win3.11 and SuperTCP. Craig wrote it in about ten minutes and even way back then it was fairly robust.

Nice to see it survives to this day.

Lots of Carbon Paper

[Arthur Grumbine]

I just have all my users print out all the data from their hard drives, in binary, onto carbon paper. Daily. The costs may be prohibitive for you. But the peace of mind for me is priceless.