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The default permissions for a users public folder are set to read only for everyone else except the owner of the folder. However, over an AFP connection, if a user copies a file from that folder to their local desktop, the umask of the local system (the client computer) should be applied and the permissions of the newly copied file should allow the user to read/write.

Can you clarify? When a user copies a file to their local computer, is the read-only attribute still in place?

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We have employed Crashplan <http://www11.crashplan.com/business/> at my organization with great success over the last several months. Backup and restore are pretty straightforward, and as mentioned by someone else, the ability to “seed” backups to a local location before backing up over WAN is pretty awesome. A neat thing about it too, is that it will back up in the background while a user is working, w/out the actual client app having to be open.

If you do end up using it, I recommend QOS’ing your network traffic to limit Crashplan to an acceptable bandwidth max so it doesn’t eat up your whole pipe with those potentially huge initial full backups – and if possible, set up a few backup servers/locations so you can sort of load balance…

Every single laptop in our company is “Crashplanned” and it has worked out pretty great.

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