OP has users that are often "out of the office" - are they expected to take multiple drives with them, and rotate these "offsite"? Sounds like a huge PITA to me.
Surely something that runs an agent that backs up daily deltas to an offsite location (CrashPlan, Iron Mountain), or back to "home base" via permanent connection (Direct Access + Windows Server Essentials 2012) would be a bit more robust? The admin gets reports/alerts, and you're getting software to automate an otherwise boring task that users are simply not interested in doing. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2014 10:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Remote full computer backup to cloud On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > Rotate more than one drive. Take the most recent drive off-site. > Make it a *daily* procedure/task for the user. Often times with > unprofessional people; anything less than daily will be neglected. s/less than daily//; s/unprofessional// :-) I've had the best results with having the computer send email to someone else, who's responsible for monitoring the backups, but not changing media. That way the watcher isn't watching themselves. You're still depending on the watcher to do their job, but it's better than just one party. Plus the reports can serve as a permanent record. -- Ben
