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by jcbrito_77

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How can I backup my workstations on my network Win98\ME\XP computers?

1.Can I move the My Document folder to the users Personal folder on the network which gets backed up every day. If there is a way how? If you know of a better way how? Help will be appreciated.
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by ann777

Are you using WinNT Server? or 2000? or Novell?

Essentially what you want to do is create a home profile on each of your user's account. That profile sets a default location for data files on a server share.

You can move the My Ddouments...but you don't want to keep doing that. Setup the users profiles and teach your users to use that share for backing up their data files.

by jcbrito_77

We are using Win NT 4.0 service pack 6. We have a script that give them a personal drive. I tried to teach user to use that drive for backups. My manager is requesting all user data to get backed up. Looking for the best way on implementing this.

by curlergirl

Well - the "best" way to do it is to require your users to save ALL documents, databases, files, ANYTHING that they need to have backed up to their user folders on the server, not to their My Documents folder on their local hard drives. That said, you can redirect the My Documents folder to the server location you want them to use in one of two ways - by using a System Policy which will affect all users on the domain, or simply go to each user's workstation, open the properties of their My Documents folder and set the location to the folder on the server where you want them to go. Hope this helps!

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