He will until the first time he needs to recover said machine and it
takes a month to dribble the files back.
What I would do is backup the local 7 to a local machine, dribble THAT
to the cloud and on those laptops, bring them in the office for a good
solid full backup and then merely do syncs of the critical data to the
cloud.
Anything more than that and you won't get a full backup in a reasonable
time frame.
But he needs to find this out his own way.
I would go with Acronis as that gives you the best options for full backup
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/cloud/backup/
Susan Bradley
Still migrating the msmvps.com blogs but we're getting closer.
blogs.msmvps.com/bradley is the new url and redirects are in place
Have I mentioned how much migrations are REALLY painful?
On 8/28/2014 2:00 PM, Art DeKneef wrote:
I told him. He seems to think this is a good idea. The Internet connection
has (does occasionally) have issues that they installed a second line from a
different provider for just that reason. In a rural area here in Arizona.
Art DeKneef
Avanti Computers
Mesa, AZ
480-649-4430 Office
480-529-4430 Mobile
-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Remote full computer backup to cloud
Does he have any idea how long a full backup to a cloud backup provider
takes? I'll bet he doesn't have fiber and has various speeds of
connectivity. It takes me weeks to dribble up a large backup.
On 8/28/2014 12:57 PM, Art DeKneef wrote:
Have a new client that wants to backup 15 computers, possibly to the
cloud. The cloud seems to be his preference right now. 7 computers are
in an office with the other 8 being laptops that rarely come into the
office. There is no server (Yeah I know), mix of Windows 7 Home and
Pro, Windows 8 and Pro, varying skill levels. They buy whatever fits
their fancy and price when something breaks. Hopefully I can get them
to see the value of consistency of hardware.
He wants to backup the whole computer, not just the business stuff. I
mentioned a small server or NAS device for the office but that still
leaves the laptops. They use a couple of 1TB USB drives in the office
now but there have been a few instances where they haven't worked
correctly between the different computers.
I'm currently looking at Carbonite, Mozy, Crashplan and Copy but they
all seem to just want to backup files and folders, not the whole drive
based on my first glance.
Anyone have any experience backing up remote computers they would like
to share while I research some more?
Thanks
Art DeKneef
Avanti Computers
Mesa, AZ
480-649-4430 Office
480-529-4430 Mobile
