It *is *a PITA. I never claimed it was optimal. Its cheap, and efficient - when performed properly. Lots of small businesses have done it for decades. The point was, if you are worried about the issues of a single point of failure with a single drive - introduce a drive rotation. Cloud based backups are not always feasible because of bandwidth considerations, as this discussion has been dancing around the core issue of.
We're all just spit-balling here. -- Espi On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
