Sure thing, atleast when you have to manage companies with less than 200 Users.
If you have larger companies with 1000+ Users, where they are all working at the same schedule (8am-5pm), some of them will even work longer so your time windows for backups goes from 8+ hours to a small amount of maybe 5-6 hours and you have to backup a few hundred GB everyday, you'll be more happy to have spend some extra money on better Speed.
USB is an option if you have to do a small backup like once a month but not if you're doign it daily.
I doubt very much if there are companies that do full backups of every computers every day. I also doubt if they require their employees to do those backups. All critical data is stored on file servers which normally use some type of RAID and are automatically backed up over night to off line storage. Many majored corporations even use multiple mirrored servers. CAT 7 or 8 may be needed between the servers and the main switch bank to handle the traffic but after that the switches distribute the load.
Any company that's wasting storage and backup licensing on client endpoints should be laughed out of business. A general use laptop or desktop should be the most disposable part of IT operations. Data policies are easy to write and enforce from an IT perspective that anything not stored in a shared resource such as a network drive, SharePoint, Teams, database, etc is not backed up and no heroic efforts will be made to recover any such data. With OneDrive and other data mobility tools there's very little excuse for any company to be backing up every endpoint on their system when they can deploy a new machine, redirect some folders to a resilient data source and everything is there.
Special purpose machines, like a workstation that controls some kind of instrumentation, are good candidates for backups, but the regular computers for Joe, Jane, and Tom: no need to back them up unless you just want to throw away storage space and really make the sales guy for your backup system make his quarterly goal in one sale.
I've proved mathematics wrong. 1 + 1 doesn't always equal 2.........
Especially when it comes to sex
Depends on the adapter also. I used to have an el-cheapo that worked fine. That broke and the current el-cheapo will not do it for some reason. I do have an hdd toaster that I use for that purpose. Clonezilla is what I use, hasn't failed me yet. The only bad thing about clonezilla, is it doesn't work with nvme very well. At least for me.
I've proved mathematics wrong. 1 + 1 doesn't always equal 2.........
Especially when it comes to sex
I've gone back and forth on whether or not I should say this. But what the hell.
Everyone once in a while a person will pop in this forum and they have this attitude like they know it all and they ramble on and on about how things are supposed to be done. I'm not gonna call any name. It should be obvious who I'm talking about. Hint: he's been posting in this thread.
It should have been obvious to him that rthonpm knows his shit. He's not gonna pull the wool over his eyes. slim saw thru him, too. It's no shame in not knowing something and it's an opportunity to learn. People who pretend to know more than they do never learn anything.
Rant off.
Growth is found only in adversity.
We do not back those up as there are not supposed to be any important files on there. We only backup daily the DMS, All Fileservers and VM Hosts + Weekly the DC's.
Still makes for a great amount of storage considering this is one of the leading architects company in germany.
From what i've heard, many Businesses in the United States don't give so much on their data then the ones in germany/eu but thats just a rumor over here.
Anyways, this whole topic just went from "How can i clone a HDD to a SSD" to "How should we do backups and what network would i need" so i think this is getting out of place now
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