Backing up several Windows machines to a Linux server

[Kam Leo]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:44:42 -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
<m3freak at rogers.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-21-01 at 20:33 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > I think backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) is excellent and
> > probably the best of the free ones.  It uses a clever scheme of
> > compression and hard links for identical files to greatly reduce
> > the disk space needed and gives you a nice web interface to browse
> > the archived files and do restores. In general it doesn't require
> > any client software.
> 
> I agree with Les.  BackupPC is awesome.  You should definitely give it a
> try.
> 
> I don't think you will be disappointed.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ranbir
> --
> Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
> Systems Aligned Inc.
> www.systemsaligned.com
> 

How about using Window's own backup utility.  Just save the backups to
a networked drive (samba?).  You can even create a script to
automatically perform the backup.