Need some Backup Help

[Richard Wilson]

All,

I have a Linux Workstation running Fedora Core 3 with a SCSI Tape Drive
attached (a very nice DLT 3 drive that was being excessed by my
company...)

I want to use it to back up my XP laptop and thought it would be a
simple case of sharing the C drive using Samba and then any decent Linux
backup utility... I had a tar working until it hit C:\WINDOWS and took a
permission failure...

I had shared the entire C drive, (read only) and was using an ID with
admin privs on the XP system... but no, Uncle Bill wants to protect me
against the folly of sharing \WINDOWS....

Is there another approach I can take, one that perhaps might make the
tape drive appear local to the XP system?  I am no Samba expert, but am
willing to try.

Or are there some other tools that this list can recommend?

I really want a clean backup of the XP system -- I plan on
repartitioning it so I can install Linux and dual boot; but the open
source tools I have for repartitioning (Gnu PartEd) don't guarantee
results...

Thanks in advance, 
-- 
Richard Wilson
r dot wilson (nine) at cox dot net