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| I currently work for a healthcare company, and due to HIPPA standards
we have to backup a computer when an employee is terminated. We
currently use the old DOS command xcopy to get this backup.
This allows us to pick which folders to backup, etc. The main
difference from the off-the-shelf products, is the batch file stores
which file folders to overlook. This takes place no matter which PC is
hooked up.
I'm looking for a different solution that will quickly backup the PC's,
allow us to decide which folders to backup (this has to be configured
once and then never touched again), and then allow us to save a copy on
the network and on DVD automatically.
Of course these are might thoughts. If anyone knows of a better
approach please share.
Thanks for your input
Jay2k
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| Matthew Martin 2005-10-03, 5:57 pm |
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Hi,
Try Argentum Backup at:
http://www.argentuma.com/backup.html
Free to try, $25 to buy.
Although it has no integral support for CD/DVD writing, you
can use some packet writing driver for this, or copy backups to
DVD manually.
Regards,
Matt
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> I currently work for a healthcare company, and due to HIPPA standards
> we have to backup a computer when an employee is terminated. We
> currently use the old DOS command xcopy to get this backup.
>
> This allows us to pick which folders to backup, etc. The main
> difference from the off-the-shelf products, is the batch file stores
> which file folders to overlook. This takes place no matter which PC is
> hooked up.
>
> I'm looking for a different solution that will quickly backup the PC's,
> allow us to decide which folders to backup (this has to be configured
> once and then never touched again), and then allow us to save a copy on
> the network and on DVD automatically.
>
> Of course these are might thoughts. If anyone knows of a better
> approach please share.
>
> Thanks for your input
> Jay2k
>
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| Howard Kaikow 2005-10-04, 2:46 am |
| "Jay2k" <jrcarr@indiana.edu> wrote in message
news:1128367030.937181.310870@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I currently work for a healthcare company, and due to HIPPA standards
> we have to backup a computer when an employee is terminated. We
> currently use the old DOS command xcopy to get this backup.
>
> This allows us to pick which folders to backup, etc. The main
> difference from the off-the-shelf products, is the batch file stores
> which file folders to overlook. This takes place no matter which PC is
> hooked up.
>
> I'm looking for a different solution that will quickly backup the PC's,
> allow us to decide which folders to backup (this has to be configured
> once and then never touched again), and then allow us to save a copy on
> the network and on DVD automatically.
>
> Of course these are might thoughts. If anyone knows of a better
> approach please share.
>
> Thanks for your input
> Jay2k
Dantz Retrospect allows one to define backup jobs.
Each backup job could select different, or the same, files to back up and on
which media.
And you can backup multiple versions of the same file.
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| Curious George 2005-10-06, 2:46 am |
| On 3 Oct 2005 12:17:10 -0700, "Jay2k" <jrcarr@indiana.edu> wrote:
>I currently work for a healthcare company, and due to HIPPA standards
>we have to backup a computer when an employee is terminated. We
>currently use the old DOS command xcopy to get this backup.
There isn't a backup system in place? Or is it one with very little
retention and no archival?
Or are you saying you need to make a snapshot of an employees system
upon termination which is separate from the normal backup routine?
>This allows us to pick which folders to backup, etc. The main
>difference from the off-the-shelf products, is the batch file stores
>which file folders to overlook. This takes place no matter which PC is
>hooked up.
>
>I'm looking for a different solution that will quickly backup the PC's,
>allow us to decide which folders to backup (this has to be configured
>once and then never touched again),
What's wrong with simply editing the batch file or making another,
perhaps similar, one?
> and then allow us to save a copy on
>the network and on DVD automatically.
If possible, giving the users disk space with quotas and accounts that
are stored on the servers could simplify archival and removal or
obsolete accounts and encourage introducing a proper company wide
backup scheme, or a simpler more effective one. Lets say the
employees use roaming profiles and their favorites & "My documents"
etc are stored on the server. The server is already being backed up
daily (including the user data) & upon termination you simply disable
the account and wipe the PC they used. Voila a copy of the user's
data is still on the server (exactly as they left it) and backups
already exist. If you use "folder redirection" you don't even need to
delete anything from their desktop when they leave.
Saving to a dvd totally "automatically" is a bit problematic at least
to the extent that they don't hold a lot and media changes are manual.
But whatever media you use there's really got to be someone choosing
the user account to be moved offline and making sure the appropriate
storage & space is there. (that is if you need to "move" the data
offline and don't like the suggestions above)
Also if you want to do well with HIPAA the backups should be
encrypted. Either xcopy has to go or your backup scripts need to go
one step further.
>Of course these are might thoughts. If anyone knows of a better
>approach please share.
It sounds like you want advice on backup & archival strategies rather
than which off-the-shelf program ppl here like for their desktop (as
others seem to be responding).
If you want to deploy a company-wide backup scheme with an extra
automated system for archiving /moving terminated employee user data
you need to provide more information. There's not enough here for
very specific, detailed advice.
If all you want to do is take a snapshot somewhere of a user's data,
that is separate for you normal HIPAA-required backup scheme, a simple
batch file or even free program like ntbackup are useable. all you'll
really need to have it accomplish is to move the data to some network
share and it'll enter the normal backup/archival system like the rest
of the data. Such a process would require some minimal hand holding -
but need not be much more than the sysadmin choosing the fired
employee's account that has to go & including say a "terminated users"
folder in the main backup job, perhaps scheduling ther server to
delete the folder after x days.
Keep in mind the better organized the system the users use to save
their data the simpler the backup/archival scripting system needs to
be. You might even want to focus on general account management rather
than specialized archival systems.
Just some thoughts to chew on.
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