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 pstanisci on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 8:02am.

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Gary, I saw it fine from here on
IE 7… are you happy with that service, we’ve used Ustream.tv and that has
worked well too.

 

From:
teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu
[mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Gary Moore
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 2:36 PM
To: Teknoids
Subject: RE: [teknoids] Laptop Backup

 

oh
I know the forum.  But I know I had a few users with IE including myself
and it was working for us (just checked right now as well).  What version
of IE?

>>> On 10/2/2008 at 2:23 PM, in message
<0K8400HVFJ36YG00@mail.lls.edu>, Fekade Tadesse <Fekade.Tadesse@lls.edu>
wrote:

I have heard there are some issues
with mogulus . Check this
http://www.mogulus.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98&page=3

 

From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu
[mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Gary Moore
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:07 0
To: Teknoids
Subject: RE: [teknoids] Laptop Backup

 

ok, we'll take a look.  I believe
we have used mogulus with IE and didn't have an issue.

>>> On 10/2/2008 at 1:51 PM, in message
<0K840002JHLOLGF0@mail.lls.edu>, Fekade Tadesse
<Fekade.Tadesse@lls.edu> wrote:

I am using IE

 

From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu
[mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Gary Moore
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 10:08 0
To: Teknoids
Subject: RE: [teknoids] Laptop Backup

 

Fekade, what browser were you using?

>>> On 10/2/2008 at 12:44 PM, in message
<0K84000CAEICLGC0@mail.lls.edu>, Fekade Tadesse
<Fekade.Tadesse@lls.edu> wrote:

Unable to open it. Flash is
installed.

 

From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu
[mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Gary Moore
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 7:44 0
To: Teknoids
Subject: RE: [teknoids] Laptop Backup

 

Hey, we're doing a webcast today of
our supreme court panel using Mogulus at noon eastern today.  If you are
interested in viewing, take a look at the link below.

 

href="http://law.hofstra.edu/Media/media_webcast.html">http://law.hofstra.edu/Media/media_webcast.html

>>> On 10/2/2008 at 10:31 AM, in message
<6D3BA712A50A264D9356CF5DF4036C913D5DEE@unmsol.lawschool.tld>,
"Johnson, Cyndi" <johnson@law.unm.edu> wrote:

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

From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu
[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

 

 

From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu
[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.

 

href="http://www.mozy.com">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

 

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