On Apr 27, 2009, at 10:32 PM, Jayson Broughton wrote: > For those users we have actually set up external USB disks (there > are so many > different brands out there, but the traveldrives work great) on their > machines. They have to be reminded (which is a pain in the butt > sometimes) > to manually back up their data (backup script on their desktop) to > the drive > every so often. It's not the most ideal situation, but it works > with the > clients that rarely come in but can't afford to lose their data.
I actually have gone that route with the travellers, and Apple's Mac OS X implementation they call "Time Machine" does a phenomenal job, they don't even have to do anything besides plug the drive in. However, I still would like a central copy, although the USB drives makes it less critical to worry about while they are "out and about"... If they don't use their supplied drive, I'm off the hook. But that still doesn't supplant the need to have a central copy of at least a "most recent" network backup in cases of machine/backup drive loss, etc.. I look forward to hearing how your testing works out! Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
