[WinMac] Re: Riddle of the Mac/NT mirror
Darryl Lee(lee[at]darryl.com)
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:13:00 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Brooke. i'm cc'ing this reply to the WinMac mailing list, which
you really should subscribe to, because we talk about this kind of
stuff all the time. (See http://www.darryl.com/winmacfaq/)
Anyways, assuming that your server is an NT Server, and that your
network is Ethernet, i don't see any reason why you shouldn't make
those whiny users work straight from the server.
That is to say: get rid of the "Work to be Backed Up" folder that's
local on their Macs, and just make an alias (call it the same thing)
that points to their home directory on the server.
Find your orneryiest user, and try it on him/her first. If you can
swing it, don't even tell them (a la the "Folgers Crystals" trick).
Unless something is severely screwed up on your network, i think the
network should be able to deal with it.
--Darryl
> Background:
> We have an NT network and mostly mac clients.
>
> Problem:
> It used to be our policy to backup our departments locally (using Retrospect),
> however we are slowly moving towards backing up everyone via the server. The
> only hitch is the Design departments who work on enormous Photoshop files and
> don't feel it would be pratical to copy files back and forth from the server all
> day. They have become very fond of their "Work to be Backed Up" folders and it
> is hard to get them to change.
>
> Is their any type of 'mirroring' software that would swoop in at 2a.m. and
> mirror the contents of each "Work to be Backed Up" folder with a Staff folder on
> the server?
>
> That is the only solution I can come up with... and at this point I will take
> almost any suggestion.
>
> Thanks,
> Brooke
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