Re: [SLUG] Backup System - Any recommendations

[David Kempe <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Trent for this scenario backuppc is what you want.
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html

is not an imaging solution though - for that you will need to pay money. 
For about 1-2K acronis true image enterprise server does what you want 
and more - live imaging to central server, without shutting down the 
windows machine. There are free imaging solutions, but they all require 
shutting down the PC

dave

Trent Murray wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone recommend a backup solution that can be run centrally from a
> linux box and can also backup windows boxes on a  LAN
>
> Apart from performing basic incremental data backups it will also need 
> to be
> able to perform disk imaging over the wire (e.g disk images of windows 
> boxes
> to be stored on the linux server to prevent me from having to 
> reinstall XP
> and every other application known to man when disks fail)
>
> Compression is also a must have.
>
> Thanks again for your thoughts and suggestions! =)