Saving to local disk? Remove all the risk!

While most network administrators will request that everyone repeats the mantra 'save anything that matters on the server', it's not always that simple.

Traditionally, saving important documents on the server has been viewed as a good discipline. The server is backed up daily to tape and the chances of losing valuable work are minimised. There is always the opportunity to recall work from the backup should something get lost.

However, as the size of files increases, it's becoming more common for work to be saved onto the local hard disk and then copied back to the server later - perhaps at the end of the day - if the user remembers! Add to this the fact that both Quark and Adobe are actively recommending 'Save to local drive and then copy to server' in numerous tech-info documents on their websites - and we have a potential problem on our hands.

The perfect solution here is to use PresSTORE Synchronise to regularly synchronise 'work in progress' areas from users local disks back to the server automatically. This can happen at regular intervals and even be configured to keep several versions of documents as they change through the day. Everything important then gets included in the server backup, and users have the added benefit of access to old versions of files that they would have otherwise irretrievably overwritten.