+1 on this I had this scheduled for a couple of laptops where I knew what days
and times the person was required to work onsite. Worked very well. I never
worried about 2-way as this was to a restricted backup share the user could not
find. The users were told if there were any issues where a restore was needed
they had to contact me directly to get the restore done.
Jon
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] File sync laptops to server
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 23:50:57 +0000
>
> I forgot to mention this earlier, but one problem with Robocopy is that you
> can't do bidirectional syncing with it. If you don't need bidirectional
> syncing though, then robocopy is perfect since it's built in and hence
> available automatically on all computers.
>
> We use bidirectional syncing to allow a laptop user to switch back and forth
> between a laptop (where we have FreeFileSync installed) to a desktop (where
> we have folder redirection implemented) and have the same Desktop and
> Documents. However, this may not be needed depending on your environment.
>
> -Aakash Shah
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Terry Dickson
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:39 PM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] File sync laptops to server
>
> In the past one office I worked for wanted a free option, I just used
> Robocopy in Windows 7 to accomplish the task. Worked better than the 9+
> Months I tried to get offline files working.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of James Rankin
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:06 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] File sync laptops to server
>
> I redirect special folders to something like c:\users\user\DataNow\Documents
>
> Then the DataNow client syncs it up with the remote location of
> \\server\share\user\DataNow\Documents when they're in the office.
>
> Lots of other solutions work the same way (DropBox, Google Drive, etc.)
>
>
> On 28 January 2014 23:01, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> All laptops here. They work remote almost daily.
>
>
>
> I used the word 'workstation' where I probably should not have.
>
>
>
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rankin, James R
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 4:41 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] File sync laptops to server
>
>
>
> You can use Folder Redirection GPOs effectively to redirect your
> users' special folders to the place required
>
> Sent from my (new!) BlackBerry, which may make me an antiques dealer,
> but it's reliable as hell for email delivery :-)
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: "Sam Cayze" <[email protected]>
>
> Sender: [email protected]
>
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:37:13 -0600
>
> To: <[email protected]>
>
> ReplyTo: [email protected]
>
> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] File sync laptops to server
>
>
>
> A lot of these solutions offered depend on your users actually
> putting files in certain locations on your disk, or initiating the backup.
>
>
>
> If you want something totally automated, you need to set something up
> that grabs the user's files.
>
>
>
> Such as:
>
> My Docs
>
> Desktop
>
> Signatures
>
> Firefox Profile (Or just the bookmarks file).
>
>
>
> I skip My Pictures and My Music (User are trained NOT put work
> related files here)
>
>
>
> Possibilities:
>
> Script it from the server to go out and grab these files. Or, I
> personally use SyncBack Pro on a server to grab these files from all
> workstations every 3 hours throughout the day. It provides one central place
> to manage them. I've also configured it to do a lot of reporting and alerts.
> All these backups go to one Folder, with a subfolder for each workstation.
> Each night I back up the top level folder with my normal encrypted backups
> that go offsite.
>
>
>
> If you want something more hand-off, I'd suggest Mozy Pro for
> Business or CrashPlan. (But I recall you specified no 3-rd parties).
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 12:01 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [NTSysADM] File sync laptops to server
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> A small office (5 users laptops with docks) 1x 2012 server (can add
> more if required , hyper-v)
> All laptops are windows 7 pro, what would be the recommended solution
> (preferably windows as software is charity pricing)?
>
> They are out of the office about 50% of the time, all office docs and
> PDF's
>
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> JP
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> James Rankin
> ---------------------
> RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization
> Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
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