Personally I think it is an overkill backing up everything. What is it that the client want to accomplish? We are talking about 1000 machines with an average of 3-5GB disk space requirement min. What about the employee who loaded 5 GB of music files to his "My Documents" folder? Now you have illegal copy of music files on your network. Does the client want to back those up? Too much resources are required to accomplish a task that I think it is not necessary or practical.
Workstations=Use one single ghost image for identical machines. Same for laptops. If the client runs Vista then you don't even need that many images. Perhaps one for workstations and one for laptops. Enable Shadow Copy on file servers and redirect "My Documents" folder to the network with GPO. Someone deleted a file it takes a few seconds to restore it from yesterday. If a machine dies, reimage. -Z.V. -----Original Message----- From: Active Elk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Desktop Backup The client is looking into 2 options. One is to backup everything and the other is to backup data only. Wei Yu ----- Original Message ---- From: "Vue, Za" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Friday, 2 May 2008 9:28:00 Subject: RE: Desktop Backup What exactly do you want to back up from the clients? Z.V. -----Original Message----- From: Active Elk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Desktop Backup Hi, My client would like to have a desktop/laptop backup solution. They have about 1000 users. May I know for those who has done this before, what have you recommended and for those who have done it, how did you do it? Thanks. Best Regards, Wei Yu __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Singapore Answers Real people. Real questions. Real answers. Share what you know at http://answers.yahoo.com.sg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ______________________________________________________________________ Search, browse and book your hotels and flights through Yahoo! Travel. http://sg.travel.yahoo.com ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
