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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Submitted by stevew on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 10:35am.

We use EMC Retrospect's proactive backup for laptops.  These laptops
are both on and off our Active Directory.  It was an add on to an
existing Retrospect backup server we were already running to backup up
some of our smaller Windows and unix servers.

It basically makes incrementals of the documents on the laptop when
Retrospect sees it appear on our local network. 
 
Steve Winckelman
University of Minnesota Law School

Kupka, Jeremiah wrote:

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
 
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jeremiah-kupka@uiowa.edu">jeremiah-kupka@uiowa.edu