Dear Morgan, Corey, and the List, I would initially agree with Corey, but at this stage of Cloud Storage, their terms, and personal privacy, I would rather try to backup to a locally attached Hard Drive or NAS or Corporately a network supplied storage location. I would then remind and/or educate the person(s) on their responsibility for performing maintenance of the data on the same device(s).
My other point would be that a locally attached device would perform a backup at a much faster wire speed than wireless speeds and network bandwidth and a few other aspects. Which would impact the amount of time to accomplish this task. These points would impact any computing system and not just Apple devices. This would be my general addition to this discussed topic. “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” Albert Einstein --- On Wed, 6/5/13, Morgan Blackthorne <[email protected]> wrote: From: Morgan Blackthorne <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Anyone have ideas on how to backup iPads To: "Corey Quinn" <[email protected]> Cc: "LOPSA Discuss List" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 1:42 PM 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]> 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], 206-501-9803 > or ski98033 on most IM services > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > 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] 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 -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
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