Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

3-10: Back Up Local Data Stores for Availability, Mobility, and Resiliency

Solution overview

Type of solution	Guidance and scripts
Features and tools	Robocopy, VBScript, scheduled tasks, Group Policy logon and startup scripts
Solution summary	Create a mechanism through which data that must be accessed locally can be backed up to the network stores with full management control over the timing of synchronization.
Benefits	Enable management of UDS data that is not managed well through redirected folders, offline files, and roaming profiles.

Introduction

You will likely encounter a small number of classes of user data that cannot be supported effectively by redirected folders or offline files. Such data must therefore be accessed from a primary store on the ...