Hi all,
Hopefully someone with more knowledge on this than me can suggest the best way to get this working. First of all I'll point out that I'm a programmer but thanks to working for a small company an accidental system/database/IT support/everything administrator too - I'm sure a few of you can relate
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My company is moving offices to two more locations and I'm wondering how we go about setting up a decent backup system to cope with all of this. The server at the current office will stay as it is.
Here's a crude diagram of the current set-up (blue) and new locations (yellow):
Currently there's no active directory system being used and all files are stored on users' local machines (there are user share folders on the server however which are auto-backed to the NAS) and synced to the external drive and taken offsite whenever I get around to it, I did set-up active directory a while ago but never got the chance/go-ahead to actually move everyone over to it :/.
I really want to avoid having a bad backup scheme with the new locations and was wondering how others would do it? I can see that having separate servers at each new location with some sort of AD or simple rcopy of users' documents from their own machines which can sync over to the original office server every night etc would be a simple solution?
Am I missing anything?
Cheers
.
Hopefully someone with more knowledge on this than me can suggest the best way to get this working. First of all I'll point out that I'm a programmer but thanks to working for a small company an accidental system/database/IT support/everything administrator too - I'm sure a few of you can relate
!My company is moving offices to two more locations and I'm wondering how we go about setting up a decent backup system to cope with all of this. The server at the current office will stay as it is.
Here's a crude diagram of the current set-up (blue) and new locations (yellow):
Currently there's no active directory system being used and all files are stored on users' local machines (there are user share folders on the server however which are auto-backed to the NAS) and synced to the external drive and taken offsite whenever I get around to it, I did set-up active directory a while ago but never got the chance/go-ahead to actually move everyone over to it :/.
I really want to avoid having a bad backup scheme with the new locations and was wondering how others would do it? I can see that having separate servers at each new location with some sort of AD or simple rcopy of users' documents from their own machines which can sync over to the original office server every night etc would be a simple solution?
Am I missing anything?
Cheers
.