We have 50-60 users that work remote and aren't in the office, and we have several execs that are in the office perhaps 50% of the time and a couple dozen other frequent travelers. For the developers we use SVN, "always local" users use either SharePoint or a mapped drive.
Reading your replies and thinking through this I wonder if we need to re-evaluate the scope of who we back up and who we don't, not sure I'll get management buy in to not offer it at all. ASB you're correct, the problem is organizational...we have a lot of that around here. It's the downside of a growing company, they sometimes still think in "we have just 50 employees, not 500" and don't comprehend some decisions they make don't scale without significant extra cost/effort (Mac OS as a workstation machine, for example). David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ________________________________ From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 1:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server team, desktop team, and me in the middle.. What stuff do you need to backup from workstations? Code can be solved by having a central source code control repository (TFS, SVN etc). Most other things are documents (use file servers) and email. Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 13 October 2010 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server team, desktop team, and me in the middle.. 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]<mailto:[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
