Gundam_MX
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Re: Backing up Outlook E-mail at the office
There is no e-mail server at the office. No MS exchange.
All the e-mails are delivered by a third party ISP.
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Are you looking for offsite, tape, or just hard drive? What kind of budget are you on; non-existent small or large.
I'm looking for onsite backup solution -- through hard drive or tape backup. At most we are looking at a small budget. |
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KoolMoe
Aw Man
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| Buy a big external HD and connect it to an internal server, or buy a lower-end 'NAS' unit (I'm using and like the Thecus 5200E).
However you connect it, make it a mapped drive on everyone's profile.
Install some free/cheap mirroring/backup/sync software on everyone's machine.
Have that software copy the PST file to the network location inside a unique user folder.
As to what software, I've no real specifics, but these may be good to look at:
»www.rsync.net/resources/howto/wi···ync.html
»www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ebcpierce/unison/
As well as commercial backup software, like Novanet or maybe even the basic Windows backup software (which I use on one machine and works reliably, but beware the inability to delete old backups if doing incremental).
KM |
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nixen
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said by Gundam_MX  :There is no e-mail server at the office. No MS exchange. All the e-mails are delivered by a third party ISP. Have you contacted your ISP to find out what your options are with/through them? Yes, I know your supervisor wants "on site", but some things really are better done at the server - waiting to do things at the client is prone to lossage. Not to throw gas on your fire, but... depending on what your 50-PC business is, your company may already be breaking state or federal email retention laws. So, such client-side solutions might really not be acceptable.
said by Gundam_MX : quote:
Are you looking for offsite, tape, or just hard drive? What kind of budget are you on; non-existent small or large.
I'm looking for onsite backup solution -- through hard drive or tape backup. At most we are looking at a small budget. Before you architect your solution, figure out what your legal requirements are. You may only want to "small budget" but legalities may dictate otherwise. Just something to ALWAYS be aware of when dealing with things like email backups for businesses.
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