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Thread ID: 38692	2003-10-15 06:04:00	Simultaneous backup	xineohp (3165)	Press F1

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183529	2003-10-15 06:04:00	Can any tell me what is the best hardware/software option for doing Simultaneous backups for network computers. Cheers	xineohp (3165)
183530	2003-10-16 17:49:00	The easiest way to do this, would be kind've like what our school does. All user profiles and files (My Docs, Cookies, etc) are stored on the server and come from there (via the use of a network drive) which also manages network logons. This ensures that users don't keep locally stored profiles on a machine that they only use once and never use again, and makes it easier to backup the machines. Then, our school has (all the machines are the same) made an image of the HDD of one of the machines which is stored somewhere in the depths of the server. This means that the admin just runs around with a Ghost disk and then has to image everything off the server once it's ready. However, if this is impractical for your purposes, then the next best bet would be to manually backup each machine and store it on the server - I'd reccomend doing a basic install of everything and backing up there so the machines are nice and tidy when you restore from a backup. Then it's just a matter of downloading Windows Update which are also stored on the server (get the pattern here)? Now, as to my "storing everything on the server" policy, while this might require several nice HDD's, what it ensures is that backing up only requires one machine to be done, and not 100's over an entire network. But, it's easy enough to have one dedicated server for files and then another server for the rest. So, our school will do a backup of the file server once a night using an external backup server which ensures the job is done. This backs up to tape and then the tapes are cycled on a weekly basis (so Monday night last week goes back in for Monday Night this week). Then, on Friday a new set of tapes are put it and then stored in external storage for a year before being brought back into circulation. Otherwise Symantec Ghost should do the trick?	cyberchuck (173)
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