For corporate use I would establish a clear mandate of sync to iTunes to back up your data; you are responsible for it, not IT. Being able to sync over wifi should help with this as they don't have to deal with adjusting cableage.
On Wednesday, June 5, 2013, Corey Quinn wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, you've basically got two options for backing > up iDevices: iCloud, and iTunes. > > Ignoring entirely the pig's breakfast Apple tends to make out of online > services, iTunes is still the superior option for this, because (provided > you have encryption turned on for the backups) it'll grab the credential > store as well, meaning that after restore you don't have to stuff creds > into 40 apps by hand. > > That said, I'd not trust local storage on an iPad for anything > "Important," which is why most of the stuff I use syncs with "the cloud" > via Dropbox, Evernote, etc. If my iPad gets snatched, I'm out some time to > get a new one, but I haven't lost data. > > How difficult this is going to be depends largely upon your userbase, of > course. > > -- Corey > > > On Jun 5, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Ski Kacoroski <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > $employer is moving to get a lot of iPads. $employees have the > expectations that anything they have on any $employer owned device will be > backed up and that IT can get their data back. As near as I can tell there > is not a way to backup iPads at an enterprise level. Does anyone know if > such a beast exists? What does your $employer do to back and protect the > data on iPads? > > > > cheers, > > > > ski > > > > -- > > "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it > > connected to the entire universe" John Muir > > > > Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [email protected] <javascript:;>, 206-501-9803 > > or ski98033 on most IM services > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > > http://lopsa.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- -- ~*~ StormeRider ~*~ "Every world needs its heroes [...] They inspire us to be better than we are. And they protect from the darkness that's just around the corner." (from Smallville Season 6x1: "Zod") On why I hate the phrase "that's so lame"... http://bit.ly/Ps3uSS
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