Laptop Backup

Submitted by jkupka on Wed, 10/01/2008 - 10:46am.

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

 

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RE: Laptop Backup
Submitted by Cyndi Johnson on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 8:35am.

Kevin, which of the Altiris suite are/were you using for that? We
use Deployment Server for imaging…but I don’t know how it’d
handle backups.

Thanks.

 

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 Bailey,
Kevin
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 8:04 AM
To: Teknoids
Subject: RE: [teknoids] Laptop Backup

 

Greetings, All,

 

We’ve been using Altiris
to back up laptops for a few years, but the support burden has grown to the
point where we have decided to outsource this service. We just finalized our
contract with EMC for Mozy Enterprise and are phasing out Altiris.

 

We are eagerly awaiting the Mac
client for Mozy Enterprise – the number of faculty using Macs has been on
the rise recently, though it is not yet a big deal and most of our mac users
are comfortable using Apple’s MobileMe or other service to back their own
data up.

 

 

---------------------------

Kevin J. Bailey

Yale Law School
ITS

Network
Services and Student Computing

 (203)
432-0821 Help Desk

(203) 432-4045 Office

PO BOX 208215

New Haven, CT
06520

United States

http://www.law.yale.edu

 

 

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[mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Bohl,
Phillip C.
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 4:48 PM
To: Teknoids
Subject: RE: [teknoids] Laptop Backup

 

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

 

 

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[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:
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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

 

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

 

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