Has anyone out there had experiences in a small-office setting with: changing users' behavior in regards to managing their data; setting up best practices for backing up information properly;
Lottsa Luck...
Here's how we do it:
1) If you can - get the users to always save their stuff under one directory, say, C:\data\
2) Set up a Linux or BSD box to do a G-zipped, SMBtar of each C:\data\ each night.
3) If the workstation is trashed then you have to reinstall the OS & the Apps. At least you have the data availible.
4) The backups on the "SMBtar" server sit on the hard drive. Get a big drive for it.
5) Buy a commercial backup system for the NT server and get full backups of it as often as possible.
Also for the workstations: you could just do an SMBtar backup of all files with the "archive" bit set, by going through the admin$ share. Don't bother to save the system or the Apps. ( or the swap file! )
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On that note: around about 200 million people have managed to live in Russia, for quite a few years, without anyone coming in to save them.
So why not Mars?
Really, my man!
There is *nothing* you need to learn about windows systems. Gather together all your extensive knowledge & experience & put it all to use! Immediatly!
In other words: Just use CygWyn.
http://www.cygwin.com/
And may I be the first to wish you Luck on your new assignment.
( If all you have availible are windows tools, well, yer gonna need it. )
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Hear hear! Well done.
Has anyone out there had experiences in a small-office setting with: changing users' behavior in regards to managing their data; setting up best practices for backing up information properly;
Lottsa Luck...Here's how we do it:
1) If you can - get the users to always save their stuff under one directory, say, C:\data\
2) Set up a Linux or BSD box to do a G-zipped, SMBtar of each C:\data\ each night.
3) If the workstation is trashed then you have to reinstall the OS & the Apps. At least you have the data availible.
4) The backups on the "SMBtar" server sit on the hard drive. Get a big drive for it.
5) Buy a commercial backup system for the NT server and get full backups of it as often as possible.
Also for the workstations: you could just do an SMBtar backup of all files with the "archive" bit set, by going through the admin$ share. Don't bother to save the system or the Apps. ( or the swap file! )