I agree with ASB on this. Long ago I set the policy that we redirect the desktop and 'My Documents' folder to the network. If you are so foolish as to not save important documents to a network share or to either of those supported 'local' locations you are out of luck if something happens to your workstation.
As to efficiency in restoring user files, I'm a firm believer that *some* processes should be painful for the end-user and this is one of them. I would be looking at root causes if you are doing so many restores that it is problematic working with the SE team. -Jeff On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > Multiple backup solutions is generally a *BadIdea™* > > It's expensive and can cause conflicts with agent overlap, etc. > > The problem you're described seems organizational and operational, not > necessarily technical. Someone higher up in your org needs to want to see > this work out better/faster/cheaper or whatever, or it's not really going to > go anywhere -- especially since it will require a budget. > > As for AV, if you already control it, I'm not sure what the problem is > there. > > > *-ASB* > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:45 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Looking to see what other orgs of about 400-500 users do. We're >> effectively a software developement shop, so we have a couple hundred >> servers (of which about 30 are in my arena, ton of dev ones that only >> developers maintain)), plus about 450 workstations. The issue we're how best >> to miantain the environment - specifically the "middle" where antvirus, >> patching, backups and software deployment land. >> >> >> >> Specifically I'm thinking backups and antivirus .We currently use Tivoli >> for our servers and workstations - the trick being we only back up one >> folder in folks' workstations. The Se team owns/operate the entire Tivoli >> system, the problem is we run into enough issues that going between the >> Service Desk guys and the SE team it's cumbersome to resolve issues. I'm >> wondering at what point the SD guys might want to roll with their own backup >> solution, or perhaps is there a better way to manage our current setup? >> >> >> >> Antivirus is almost the reverse of this as I manage our AV, including all >> the AV on our servers...nothing like a fuzzy line.. >> >> >> >> Dave >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
