[K12OSN] Some Back-Up Questions

[Richard K. Ingalls]

What open-source solutions are there for this scenario?

I have a few K12LTSP classroom servers (NFS mount /home from one of 
them) and a web/email server and a proxy server, as well as four 
administrators' PCs that I'd like to back up regularly.  I'd like to 
build a back-up server to handle all of these backups...

1. Do I need two large capacity IDE hard drives and mirror them (for 
the server)?  If so, software mirroring or hardware?

2. Do I need to backup entire hard drives or just the important portions?

3. How can I also backup Windows systems onto this server?  (At this 
point, I'm thinking of using WinSCP2 to manually copy directories onto 
the server).

Any suggestions?
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RICHARD K. INGALLS
Director of Information Technology
Glenwood R-8 School District
West Plains, MO

email..ringalls (at) glenwood.k12.mo.us
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