On 26 May 2011 at 13:47, [email protected] wrote: > We have a file server where users SHOULD be storing their data. However, > users still continue to store their data in My Document and their Desktop. > > I am being told to come up with a solution to backup THAT data. We do NOT > have BackupExec or any other paid-for backup program. We backup data on > the file server to a USB drive using the built in MS Backup tool that is > part of SBS2003. > > Any ideas on the best automated way to backup 10 or so user machines with > their Desktop and My Documents data to a single shared location (we have a > large NAS device which has plenty of space and is shared out).
Batch file in the System Login script: CD /d %userprofile% XCOPY "Desktop\*.*" \\NAS\%computername%\%Username%\Desktop" /m/f/i/s/c/h/y XCOPY "My Documents\*.*" \\NAS\%computername%\%Username%\MyDocs" /m/f/i/s/c/h/y By specifying %computername%\%Username% you allow for users who have profiles on different computers. Just set up a share for each %computername% .... If you run this full-screen, when this starts taking a long time and the user starts to complain, tell him he needs to keep his docs on the server, not on his desktop or in his MyDocs. You could also back up %AppData%\Mozilla\*.* to grab any Firefox profiles and Thunderbird email profiles if those exist and %AppData%\XXXX where XXXX is any program which has a local profile which needs backing up (e.g. Microsoft Outlook stores some stuff like NK2 files and the like locally). Users have to log off and back in for this to work. If they don't do this in your situation, you could create a Scheduled Task that runs daily as the logged-in user. Down side of Scheduled Tasks is maintaining the password when the user changes the password. ~ 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
