Teknoids

Along those lines, what about something like SharePoint for file
saving? One of the biggest laptop-users departments on our campus is using it
very successfully. They did primarily due to the high demand for off-campus
file share access but they’ve found that even those people on-campus use
it instead of a file share. Just a thought. It doesn’t, of course,
address the issue of how to backup local files created when they are not
online.

C.

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

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[mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Greg
Mathes
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 4:02 PM
To: Teknoids
Subject: RE: [teknoids] Laptop Backup

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

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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

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[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

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