Re: [SAGE] Backing up remote PCs

["Lance A. Brown" <brown9@niehs.nih.gov>]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 16:55, Sean J. Schluntz wrote:

> Look in to Dantz Retrospect for Windows.  It can do encrypted IP based
> remote backups over the Internet.  Inexpensice, easy to use and it
> pops up nice little Window "I'm going to back you up now, ok? <yes> <delay>"
> 
> I haven't tested their idea of encryption, but that can be hanced by
> any number of firewall options on any number of different firewalls.
> 
> I have found that with all of the backup solutions out there, you can't
> beat Retrospect for small offices with Macs or Windows boxes (and they
> have a new Linux client now also I hear, haven't tested that either.)


Keyword small:  Retrospect bites hard when you try to scale up the
number of clients per server.  We learned that here the hard way.  We've
not used it over the Internet so I can't comment on that functionality.

--[Lance]

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