First a Company policy about data location must be adopted.  We allocate
drive letters in 4 categories for the user on centralized file servers.

        A personal drive (only the user can read/write to this)
        A group drive (only users in the same department can read write
this)
        A division drive (only users in the same division can read write
this)
        A corporate (all corporate users can read/write here)

Occasionally, users request locked down folders in the shared areas.

The whole point here is some kind of data management that meets your
corporate needs.  At the time this was created, backing up clients was a
dream, but we still feel it is the best way to go.  We have about 10K
clients.

We use a corporate desktop/laptop image and standard upgrades to it to add
software not all users require.  So, if you fail, you just restore the
image.  Yes, the customer loses their customization.

We are looking at doing TSM backups for laptop users, but only upon their
request.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Northrop Grumman Information Technology
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: Rolf Meyer [mailto:rolf.meyer AT SUBNET DOT DE]
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 7:47 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Workstation Backups and TSM


Hallo

On Freitag, 24. Januar 2003 21:39, Pucky, Todd M. wrote:
>
> For sites that do not do workstation/desktop backups:
> What is the best solution you have found for backing up end users'
> data?
>

We do backups for one of our customers only for server systems (file, appl
and database). The client have no access rights to save data to their
harddisk except on c:\temp and must use the fileserver shares.

Restore a destroyed client is just a reload of a prepared image (saves a lot
of time).

Greetings

Rolf Meyer
System Consultant