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Here at work the policy is to tell users to save everything to the PC
server at their location. There are shared and private folders they can
choose from. So, by virtue of saving their files to these designated
folders they are defining them as "user files". If they have a local copy
of a file and their PC crashes then it's too bad for them. Every night a
job on the server runs and backs up everything. This segregates the user
files from the PC applications. The downside is that if the server crashes
then everybody has to revert to last night's backup.
At home I set up a folder off of the root on each PC for "files" (kind of
like "My Documents"). There's also the matter of our Outlook Express
e-mail folders and Internet Explorer Favorites folder. I've got another
server PC that copies the files folder, e-mail, and favorites to the
server. If any individual PC crashes then they revert to last night's
backup. If the server crashes then the individual PC'sare unaffected
unless they happen to crash at the same time. I need to add another backup
of the server to DVD but that hasn't happened yet.
Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN 46571
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Jeff Crosby
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A while back there was a discussion about how and what to back up from PCs
that got me to thinking. (Dangerous, I know)
The more I think about it, the more the PC backups we do don't make sense.
We back up the entire PC to tape via Backup Exec or Tapeware or some
equivalent. But if a reload is required what would actually be done, from
a
clean slate, is to install windows, reinstall software, then bring in the
actual "user files" such as those contained within My Documents.
So if I was going to back up only "user files" on a PC, how does one go
about determining what are "user files"? The Documents and Settings
directory with all subdirectories would be an obvious one, but what else?
It would really depend on what applications were installed and how those
apps behaved. How does one go about ascertaining that, if it's even
possible?
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Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company. Unless I say so.
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