Item Subject: How do You Assign PC Volume Labels?
Good question... BUT are you really going to be backing up an
individual's pc ? Here at AMOCO we all have our PC's on our desktops
as part of our distributed environment BUT...for a user's data to be
backed up we require that they store it out on the attached server.
THIS ALSO REDUCES LICENSING COSTS ! (sorry IBM) There are numerous
ways to set up networks but here is a misc example...
Say the company decides that DOS, WINDOWS, some OFFICE pkg, & some
MAIL pkg is the minium that workers need to perform their duties. In
keeping life simple these go on with no bells & whistles. So if a
disk goes bad in a machine it is a no-brain'er for someone to restore
their "BASE" work environment. BUT you will always have those few,
like myself, who say "Hey, but I also need blah, blah, & blah!" Well,
if I install the nonstandard packages to directories mapped to the
server then all I have to do is also stick my configuration files out
on the server and everything is recoverable in a heart beat. That is I
crash my hard drive... service tech comes in, replaces it, and plops
on the base software. I then copy my autoexec.bat config.sys win.ini,
etc, etc, etc from my base directory on the server and ba-boom-baby,
I'm up and running again. Then I have also been using a dir on the
server to save all my *.xls, *.doc, *.blah to so I didn't have to
worry about those.
Ok, that doesn't fit your needs, option/2... if every pc has a
predefined internet id (ip addr) use the host & part of the domain...
ie. if I'm 111.222.333.444 my drives would be 333-444C 333-444D
333-444E and so on
Ok, you don't like that one either... Humm ;-) say people have a
logon id... dcook then my drives would be dcookC (or D or E )
Try to fix them to something already in place that will carry through
the business... we tie all our pc poop back to a/the userid... then
when I'm at the office the machine on my desk has node name myuserid
then when I go home and dial in with the at home pc, boom same node
name (different ip address) or when I'm in another state with my lap
top, I dial in, boom same node name...all of my poop is on the server.
Thing to remember is pick a method and stick with it because it will
be a bear to change things later if many PC's are involved...
later
Dwight
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Subject: How do You Assign PC Volume Labels?
Author: ADSM-L at unix,sh/dd.RFC-822=ADSM-L\@VM\.MARIST\.EDU
Date: 2/28/96 5:58 PM
Forgive me if this has been discussed before, but our site has been
having discussions about the best scheme to use for volume labels
on Windows and OS/2 clients. We were wondering what other sites
do. If you e-mail me directly, I'll summarize the responses and
post them for all to see.
Things that we wondered about:
o Do you have a scheme to predetermine what a volume label should be?
o How do you handle PCs with multiple partitions or drives?
o When a user's PC is upgraded, do you use the same vol label on the
new PC or assign a different one?
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