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: Taylor Armstrong <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:45:37 -0500
In addition, this isn't an "officially supported" solution (although I
know it works :) )
Issue I see there is that we don't have space on the SAN to do
full-disk backups of every Mac. We normally backup document folders,
but not /apps, /system, etc.
Might be something to think about though.
The FileVault solution proposed by Tim is interesting, but I'd have to
see what the impact would be on local performance, since some of the
machines in question are used for video editing... might have to
change the workflow a bit, but it might work.
thanks!
Taylor
Joel Esler wrote:
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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