On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> Our company has standard builds for clients and servers, so restoring a >> laptop is a simple matter of laying down the standard company build again > > Yeah, we do that too. But surely you don't think that's all there is to it, > do you?
Not as such, but then I didn't design the system. :) Actually, for most of the remote sites it works fine because there's very little additional software. Most of those guys are in sales and have everything they need for their jobs. Since they travel a lot, the dedupe backup solution has worked very well for them. In our case, a very small percentage of users has the authority to install additional software themselves. Everything they need, or additional software they have requested, gets pushed to their workstations via SMS. > based on their job requirements and preferences ... Not to mention ... Some > of them have dropbox, skype, firefox, chrome, Cygwin (that's a big one), > octave ... and so on. Some people prefer VNC, and others X tunneling, and > others Exceed OnDemand. Some Xterm, some Putty. Cygwin alone takes like an I use Cygwin, but I admit it's pretty bloated. Stuff like VNC is actually blocked by the corporate firewall, if you can believe that. But yes, you make an excellent point. NetBackup is fully capable of doing what they call a "bare metal restore". I haven't tested Avamar with that functionality, but it's on the increasingly longer list of things for me to do come January. The other thing that we're investigating for mid-term solutions is a virtual desktop solution where we can back up the virtual images locally in the datacenter. -Adam _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
