Give him the link to the old FRAM filter commercial. Pay me now, or pay me
later. Or as good ol' Phillip Crosby would say, "It always costs less to do it
right than to do it twice." Looks like they're already beyond the "right"
point, but they could probably still get away with twice instead of three times.
--
There are 10 kinds of people in the world...
those who understand binary and those who don't.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Art DeKneef
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 2:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Remote full computer backup to cloud
I agree. But the education so far hasn't been sinking in. It's another example
of them doing something on their own and going deeper down the rabbit hole.
Then realizing that to get back out it's going to be costly, take some time and
be disruptive for a while. It's getting them to the point for them to see that
is the best way to go versus continuing to limp along.
Art DeKneef
Avanti Computers
Mesa, AZ
480-649-4430 Office
480-529-4430 Mobile
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew S. Baker
Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 9:11 AM
To: ntsysadm
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Remote full computer backup to cloud
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]<mailto:[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<tel:480-649-4430> Office
480-529-4430<tel:480-529-4430> Mobile
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
On Behalf Of Ben Scott
Sent: Monday, September 1, 2014 8:57 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Remote full computer backup to cloud
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Art DeKneef
<[email protected]<mailto:[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
