Our company has about 50+ locations around the country. We currently use a zip drive shared on one workstation at each location, and we use some proprietary software we wrote to write the files to the disks.
This is not by any means a very reliable system.
My question for discussion is, how do the big boys do it? How does a large organization do backups of each client. The bandwidth limitations of our WAN (64k frame relay) limits us from using a central server, and we make users keep all their data in the \data folder on the individual machine. We do not have a server at each location, but we could consider a product like the snap drive at each location, but the problem there is how do you back that up in case that goes down. (putting all your eggs in one basket…)
I’d just like to start some ideas flowing about how bigger companies (we have about 800+ employees) do this, because we will certainly grow in the next few years.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
