Thank you Toby, really helpful. We¹ve been trying out Carbon Copy again and it does appear to do everything we want it to very nice piece of software!
What we need to do now is get a shell script to mount a windows 2003 server share. Anyone got any tips? Many thanks, Matt On 15/08/2011 14:53, "Toby Leighton" <[email protected]> wrote: > My instinct would be carbon copy cloner, running or rather connecting to the > root account of each of the 6 machines and always backing up to the same image > file. With CCC you can select the folders you want to back up as opposed to > doing the whole disk each time. > > Another very good product which would achieve what I think you are trying to > achieve is crashplan pro / enterprise version ( or maybe even the standard > version ) it's free / cheap depending on what you do with it. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 15 Aug 2011, at 13:03, Matt Healey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> Wonder if you could help in any way. I¹m trying to backup all users (there >> are 6 in total) to a storage drive on a server but would like to be able to >> do this once they have all been logged off. Work at a school if you¹re >> wondering why that is and we¹d like to run backups overnight rather than >> effect their usage in the day. >> We need something that is as descrete as possible to doesn¹t interfere with >> the users once they¹re logged in. >> >> Does anyone know of any solutions? We¹ve tried Carbon Copy but that appears >> user specific. Also tried Time Machine but that seems really unstable when >> backing up to our drobo attached to the mac server please shout at me if >> this shouldn¹t be the case! >> >> Thanks very much, >> Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
