Hey i'm having trouble trying to work out the best way to do this.. or whether it is even possible
Currently on this business network there are around 20machines. They are all connected to a terastation
I created shared folders on the terrastation for all the desktops for all the documents to be stored here.. and therefore I can map a drive from the desktop the terrastation so that the files can be used. This means that none of the files are therefore actually stored on the desktop (C drive) which is exactly what we want. Therefore I can simply now take a backup of the terrastation and it will back up all the documents for every desktop.
The problem arrises when I try set this up for laptops. This is because the laptops aren't always plugged into the network. On occassions the laptops will be used out of this building and therefore the documents are needed on the C drive. The only basic way I no of being able to back these files up in one go. Is by each user of the laptop to simply drag and drop / copy and paste there documents onto the terrastation. However this isn't really practical and therefore this query is to see whether it is possible to create a form of syncronisation so that when the laptops are plugged into the network the files can be moved / copied to the terrastation. I am aware that they would be needed in the C drive still but I need a form of being able to have the laptops automatically copying the files from the hard drive to the terrastation for a daily back up.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Mark
Currently on this business network there are around 20machines. They are all connected to a terastation
I created shared folders on the terrastation for all the desktops for all the documents to be stored here.. and therefore I can map a drive from the desktop the terrastation so that the files can be used. This means that none of the files are therefore actually stored on the desktop (C drive) which is exactly what we want. Therefore I can simply now take a backup of the terrastation and it will back up all the documents for every desktop.
The problem arrises when I try set this up for laptops. This is because the laptops aren't always plugged into the network. On occassions the laptops will be used out of this building and therefore the documents are needed on the C drive. The only basic way I no of being able to back these files up in one go. Is by each user of the laptop to simply drag and drop / copy and paste there documents onto the terrastation. However this isn't really practical and therefore this query is to see whether it is possible to create a form of syncronisation so that when the laptops are plugged into the network the files can be moved / copied to the terrastation. I am aware that they would be needed in the C drive still but I need a form of being able to have the laptops automatically copying the files from the hard drive to the terrastation for a daily back up.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Mark