I neglected to include: - Expect your backup times to vary wildly and/or increase exponentially without any idea or expectation of size/time/etc. If your backup window pushes over into the following day, this can have many other detrimental impacts on performance, productivity, etc. - If your switching equipment is sub-par, you can possibly expect multiple torrent use to cause equipment failures.
-- Espi On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Kish N Kepi <[email protected]> wrote: > We keep a lax environment – our users are local admins on their Windows > laptops and we not stop them from installing any software they want – the > only caveat I ever say is ‘don’t be stupid’. And yes, we are a hi-tech > house, well beyond the startup stage. > > > > During a conversation about potential changes to the way we do backups > today, I stated that the current back up routine specifically excludes most > media files, and also that I’d used psexec to kill utorrent processes. My > boss, who is actually quite knowledgeable in IT matters, had a response > surprised me: why? Why not backup the media files? Why not allow torrent > traffic? His points were as follows: > > 1. We give them laptops and smartphones and expect them to be > available at all hours of the day – that’s convergence of home and office > life – why shouldn’t we backup the photos of their kids, pets and vacations > too? > > 2. Do we have bandwidth issues? We have a broad link to the internet > and only at periodic peaks do we hit anywhere near our limit > > 3. Legality of torrents? Really? How many people care about the > legality? > > 4. Malware? We have other protections in place. > > > > I couldn’t come up with any answers that sounded reasonable to me, so at > this stage, we’re planning increase our backup storage capacity. > > > > Does anyone here have answers that I lack? Sorry for cross-posting, but I > this question is bothering me, and I know that many people in this for a > have strong, well-formed (and well-expressed) opinions > > > > Kish n Kepi >
