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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
I was going nuts at work trying to convince folks to BACK UP their data - the company provided USB sticks even! But no.
I finally surrendered and set up a SugarSync account on every PC in the place! So much easier than continual arguing and the inevitable finger pointing after a crash!
SS - sign up for SugarSync, DropBox, whatever - it backs up automatically for you!
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At a previous employer, we took some pains to make sure data wasn't
stored on local PCs. Email was all in Exchange Server, read through Outlook. Word documents, Excel spreadsheets et al lived in appropriate directories on servers. When the user sat down and logged in with a domain ID, the login process connected them to network shares, and the server directories containing the stuff they were working on appeared as mapped drives in Windows. The servers all got backed up every night.
People could and did store personal stuff locally, but if their PC crashed and burned it was their problem. Their work was safe elsewhere.
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Dennis