I support the overall policy "use the server for important data". But today we
see in many companies a growing number of Notebooks that have a large amount of
data stored locally in order to work "offline". Almost everybody in the
consulting business seems to work that way. So even if the majority of PCs today
are "normal" desktop machines I'd recommend every ADSM administrator to be
prepared for a lot of clients to be saved in the future. And this is not only a
question of ressources but also of proper concepts - nightly backups just don't
work if the notebook is not in the office at that time ;-)

Regards,
Michael








"Mauro M.TINELLI" <Mauro.TINELLI AT ST DOT COM> on 10.08.99 15:14:46

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 Subject: Re: PC Backups









Simon,

> The corporate policy has always been that if it is
> important then store it centrally.

we do the same!

We have in our site, about 1000 Unix Servers/WorkStations and we do
backup them, but the process is filtered through proper System
Administrators. We also have about 1700 PCs & 50 NT/NetWare Servers, we
backup only the servers and ask the PC users to move their data on
specific areas on these servers if they need to preserve their data.

Mauro, STM