Teknoids

Jeremy,

We’ve been using Novell’s
iFolder for our laptops for a couple of years now.  It was a bit of a paradigm
shift, as our users were used to keeping their files on their network home
drives (as in Cindi’s model), but remote access meant they had to be
online with a VPN tunnel to access their shares.

With iFolder they have a local copy on
their hard drive, plus a copy on the iFolder server, which is included within our
normal backup routine.  We’re also now rolling out TrueCrypt (thanks
to the recent CALI
session on full disk encryption) to provide security of the University data
that resides on those mobile devices.  While the recommended model has
users move only files that they need to work on into their iFolder, we include
all of their data areas, including My Doc’s.

This does take up disk space, but being as
the networked iFolder server storage is not the primary data repository, we’re
comfortable with using lower cost SATA arrays.

Best,

Greg

Greg Mathes, Chief Technology Officer

University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law

3200 5th Ave. Sacramento, CA 95817

(Office) 916-739-7224

(Fax) 916-739-7388

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

jeremiah-kupka@uiowa.edu