Teknoids

UOregon Law uses EMC Retrospect as well to back up our faculty and
staff's laptops./workstations. It is reasonably reliable but is
beginning to show signs of "neglectware" as it ages (and makes the
rounds between different companies).

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On Oct 7, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Steve Winckelman wrote:

> 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
>>
>> jeremiah-kupka@uiowa.edu
>>