One of the faculties here is starting into workstation backups.

Their policy was that the user stored their files in C:\DATA and they
ONLY backed up that directory tree.

But they discovered that, despite best efforts, not all of the user's
data ends up in C:\DATA.  As an example, the Netscape (or IE) bookmark
file.

We are doing some experiments on backing up the entire contents of the
hard disk.  The effect is that the ADSM server will now hold 500
copies of Win95, Office, Netscape, ... but all these files do not
change very often.

The exclude list will exclude the Netscape/IE cache files as they do
change often and are not candidates for a restore.

Russell


> we backup 150 servers but will wtart with 500 portable PC's (Win95).
>
> We will force a limitation to the C:\DATA with some exclude/include stored
> in an optset, equivalent to
> Exclude ?:\...\*
> Include C:\DATA\...\*.
>
> We plan to keep only 2 versions, the extra one for 10 days, the retain only
> for 90 days.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rene Lambelet
> Nestec SA - 55, Av. Nestle - CH-1800 Vevey
> Tel: ++41'21'924'35'43 / Fax: ++41'21'924'45'89
> E-Mail: rene.lambelet AT nestle DOT com
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joel Cooper [SMTP:jocooper AT DTTUS DOT COM]
> > Sent: Monday, 23. November 1998 07:05
> > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject:      Your experience....
> >
> >      My firm is just starting to try out ADSM. I am being given the duty
> > of
> >      working out workstation backups... something we've not offered
> > before.
> >
> >      Are you backing up workstations? What retention policies are you
> >      offering your users?
> >
> >      Thanks,
> >      Joel Cooper