Teknoids

We’re looking at a
contract with Mozy.  The central university is planning to scale up
personal drive shares … (I’d love to get out of the business of
maintaining a large file server service)  BUT it may be some time before
they acquire the drive space.  Especially now with the markets in serious
flux.  So we’ll have to continue to find our own solutions for now.

Mozy looks like it will cost less
than $300/mo to get basic coverage for all our faculty.  While our onsite
backup system is pretty good, I’d prefer to transfer some/all risk to
folks who do backups (and restores) all day every day.  This should help free
up our smart people to do more innovative fun stuff that has more direct
correlation to our educational mission.  Like a lot of us, I’m doing
my best to get out of the business of running services that someone else can
run … it’s been a five or six year process but we’re finally
seeing some progress here.  We’ll keep a few servers but mostly for
sandboxes and cool stuff.

Sorry to be so loquacious …
had an amazing lunch and am still recovering.

www.mozy.com

Phil

Pepperdine Law

From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu
[mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Johnson,
Cyndi
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:44 PM
To: Teknoids
Subject: RE: [teknoids] Laptop Backup

Jeremy,

More questions than answers here…

Do you put your laptops in your domain (if you’re running
something like AD, which I assume you are)?

Do you redirect the My Documents to a network share?

At this point, we have our laptops in the domain and encourage
everyone to use their file share in the building, but when they are off campus,
they are responsible for backing up their own data. Not the best tactic,
I’m sure.

Thanks

Cyndi

Cyndi Johnson
Assistant Dean for Information Technology
UNM School of Law
(505) 277-0695

From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu
[mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kupka,
Jeremiah
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:43 AM
To: Teknoids
Subject: [teknoids] Laptop Backup

Hello All,

I was looking for some information on what others are using
for laptop backup practices. Currently we have been using NTBackup and
scheduling a task for when laptops are in the building to backup data and
occasionally a full system backup. With the onset of Windows Vista and
it’s new backup it appears time to change courses to something that still
allows the picking and choosing of what to backup. As a side note we are
backing up the files to a network share when the laptop is in the office.

Any comments on what is good, bad experiences or just any
info is appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeremy.

Jeremiah
Kupka

University of
Iowa - College of Law

IT Department

href="mailto:jeremiah-kupka@uiowa.edu">jeremiah-kupka@uiowa.edu