I would definately make the employees store their data on a central share somewhere. If I had to backup individual computers I would go mad. You can setup a samba server and make sepearte folders for each person if that is a concern, then you just run a backup routine on the fileserver. On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 09:38, Gordon Chamberlin wrote: > Well, I'm finally convinced that tape backup machines are evil. > > I'm considering going without a tape backup and do IDE hard drives or > perhaps even writable DVDs. (Do they make rewritable DVDs yet?) > > I have to backup windows workstations. There are about five of them. > I'm going to backup "My Documents" and Outlook email. > > I don't want to create shares on each workstation as they'd be visible > by all. I know that I could reduce permissions to make the shares > readable by a single user/machine. > > I'd also like to only backup changed files, and encryption would be > nice. > > Either client pushing to server or server pulling from client is fine. > Right now, I think it would be easier to run something on the client > that pushes data to a server. > > My question is: > Does anyone know of a program that does this: backup changed windows > files to a remote linux machine that I can execute at defined times? > > I'm willing to run samba on the linux server. > > I realize this may be off-topic as I am trying to do things on windows > machines. Just wondering any of you have tried to solve a similar > problem. > > Thanks. -- Eric Katherman