Thanks. I'll need to look into that more. Art DeKneef Avanti Computers Mesa, AZ 480-649-4430 Office 480-529-4430 Mobile
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Monday, September 1, 2014 8:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Remote full computer backup to cloud If using Windows Server Essentials 2012, then it has an option of creating an SSL VPN automatically for you (there's a little balloon prompt that comes up asking if you'd like to stay permanently connected from anywhere). If you enable this, then there'll be a permanent SSL tunnel back to the office (I guess it's a scheduled task that kicks this in), and the backups can keep happening via the agent. The admin(s) also get a nice daily emailed report showing which machines have failed to backup recently Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Art DeKneef Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2014 1:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Remote full computer backup to cloud Replying to previous answers. Environment recap. No server currently. Clients mixture of 7 Home and Pro, Windows 8 and 8.1 Home and Pro. Desktops in office, laptops in field that end the day in the users home where they plug again. He likes the idea of laptops with an external hard drive for backups. His concern is having the laptop backed up consistently every night. Automatically as well. Users would probably do this for the first week or so and then start to gradually begin to forget. Everyone has Outlook so thought of recurring reminders or emails. But the user can still just ignore these anytime they felt too busy. Two external hard drives and rotating them probably wouldn't fly either. The original idea of backing everything to the cloud was nixed pretty quick once he heard some of the costs and time involved. Thus him asking for other alternatives again. For the office a server and a couple of external hard drives for offsite storage has been proposed. Proposal is for Server 2012 R2 Essentials. This covers the backup issue for the office computers consistently and automatically. It's just these pesky laptops. :-) As for the DirectAccess idea, he would need to upgrade all the laptops at least to the Enterprise version. Which wasn't included in any of the proposals. He even questioned why he needed to upgrade the Home versions they have. It's a challenge either way. Art DeKneef Avanti Computers Mesa, AZ 480-649-4430 Office 480-529-4430 Mobile -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Monday, September 1, 2014 8:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Remote full computer backup to cloud On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > My point is that we’re not really addressing the underlying problem at all. The underlying problem is a business-owner who doesn't understand technical issues ignoring the advice of people he hired to understand said technical issues for him. Which, I expect, is why we're trying to come up with ways to cram a enneadecagonal peg into a tetradecagonal hole. -- Ben
