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Rick Watson
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I was looking at moving the users I support to Vista backup. We currently
use a 3rd party product to tape, but as data keeps getting larger, writing
to tape becomes more and more ineffecient. Only one computer at a time can
write to the tape system we have.
So I started moving computers to Vista for file backup. The lack of control
over files was a little annoying, but it works well enough for what I need.
We backup to NAS, so all the computers can backup simultaneously (if they
need to). But then in further reading, I hit a major stumbling block. It is
how full backups are done after the first.
As everyone knows, making the end user an Admin is just a disaster waiting
to happen. So none of our users are Administrators. But one must be an
Administrator to run backup. OK, I can understand why from a security
perspective, in order to backup files I should have rights to them. So I
set up the first backups and they run under an Administrator context.
However if what I am reading is correct, sometime in 30-90 days, my users
are going to receive a message that they need to do another full backup.
The users are not administrators, so unless I'm mistaken, they cannot do
that. The idea of setting up a time that I can login to use their computer
to backup their machine every month is ridiculous at best.
So, do the future full backups run under the security context I setup? Or
are my fears confirmed, the user is going to have to go in and tell it to do
a full backup, which will fail. Which means I will have to personally run
full backups on 45 computers about once a month?
I hope I'm wrong, but if I am not, I don't see how the backup system is at
all usable for corporate clients.
Thanks in advance for any explanations or ideas,
Rick
use a 3rd party product to tape, but as data keeps getting larger, writing
to tape becomes more and more ineffecient. Only one computer at a time can
write to the tape system we have.
So I started moving computers to Vista for file backup. The lack of control
over files was a little annoying, but it works well enough for what I need.
We backup to NAS, so all the computers can backup simultaneously (if they
need to). But then in further reading, I hit a major stumbling block. It is
how full backups are done after the first.
As everyone knows, making the end user an Admin is just a disaster waiting
to happen. So none of our users are Administrators. But one must be an
Administrator to run backup. OK, I can understand why from a security
perspective, in order to backup files I should have rights to them. So I
set up the first backups and they run under an Administrator context.
However if what I am reading is correct, sometime in 30-90 days, my users
are going to receive a message that they need to do another full backup.
The users are not administrators, so unless I'm mistaken, they cannot do
that. The idea of setting up a time that I can login to use their computer
to backup their machine every month is ridiculous at best.
So, do the future full backups run under the security context I setup? Or
are my fears confirmed, the user is going to have to go in and tell it to do
a full backup, which will fail. Which means I will have to personally run
full backups on 45 computers about once a month?
I hope I'm wrong, but if I am not, I don't see how the backup system is at
all usable for corporate clients.
Thanks in advance for any explanations or ideas,
Rick