Re: [Fed-Talk] TimeMachine use in Fed space... opinions?
Re: [Fed-Talk] TimeMachine use in Fed space... opinions?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] TimeMachine use in Fed space... opinions?
- From: Joel Esler <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:02:49 -0500
Of course you could configure the TM to backup to your SAN.
But what kind of performance impact would that have? To have a ton of machines backing up, every hour, to a central machine?
J
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Timothy J. Miller
<email@hidden> wrote:
Taylor Armstrong wrote:
As part of our normal 10.5 build, we have disabled TimeMachine, pushing users towards backing up to our SAN (and thus to tape) instead. Most of the incentive for this was the lack of security offered by TimeMachine, since the data on the external drive is readable by anyone with access to the drive itself. (no OD environment to host the backups).
We have a couple of users asking us to reconsider, so I'm curious what other .gov agencies are using. I use, and enjoy TimeMachine at home, but it doesn't seem like a best-practice to use it in an enterprise environment when we have more secure methods. The main justification being put forward is that it would simplify COOP requirements.
If you have an existing workstation backup solution and it supports OS X, I would say use it. There's no need for parallel systems.
-- Tim
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