Personally, unless the money is *really* really good, I would say that the first order of business is to educate this particular client enough to at least trust your technology guidance and recommendations.
Otherwise, the pain for all parties will be quite unbearable, and the time wasted will be quite extensive. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market...* On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Art DeKneef <[email protected]> wrote: > That hybrid solution was one of my original proposals for the laptops. > Having the recent company data in the cloud so everyone was working with > the same file. No more having different files on different users computers > depending on who was working on the file at that time. Yes it is a mess. > "One" of the things he would like to fix. > > > Are end-users responsible for their own system administration? > HAHAHAHAHA! Yes. Everyone here is their own local admin. With all the > rights and privileges that go with it. The 2 laptops I have looked at so > far need some serious "cleaning" for being company-owned business laptops. > As for the responsibility, what do you think it is? :-) > > 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 8:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Remote full computer backup to cloud > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Art DeKneef <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > Perhaps a hybrid solution is the best bet? "Cloud" backups for user > data, i.e., the stuff that's really important and/or changes frequently. > Gets you up-to-the-hour backups of everything important, and easy selective > restores. Occasional images of the entire system to an external hard > disk. Gets you the ability to restore a system quickly in the event of > dire disasters; then the "cloud" can restore the rest. > > I'm not sure how to go about managing the system images. Are end-users > responsible for their own system administration? And if the answer is > "yes", does that mean really responsible, i.e., they'll be fired if they do > it wrong, or do you mean they're the ones doing it but they're not > responsible? :) > > -- Ben > > > > >
