Back up software

[stabface]

I work at a small office about 15 machines all running winXP, and me running Ubuntu. I built a server using ubuntu server install out of a old pent III, it works well enough for sharing files. But my boss wants something that can auto back up certain drives on machines in the office. like this program. http://www.tgrmn.com/

[Koybe]

On which support do you plan to backup?

If it's disk to disk, just have a look at Backuppc, it's a great peace of software. If you need external backup, look at small software like backup2l or much intersting (and complicated ones) like bacula or amanda.

[stabface]

i am looking for disk to disk, from windows XP workstations backed up on the Ubuntu sambs server back up folders

[derelict]

If the server can access the client shares it seems that you can simply use cron (http://www.scrounge.org/linux/cron.html) to schedule an execution of tar (http://www.google.pt/search?hs=QEc&hl=pt-PT&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=tar+backup&btnG=Pesquisar&meta=) to backup the desired shares.

[Koybe]

If the server can access the client shares it seems that you can simply use cron (http://www.scrounge.org/linux/cron.html) to schedule an execution of tar (http://www.google.pt/search?hs=QEc&hl=pt-PT&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=tar+backup&btnG=Pesquisar&meta=) to backup the desired shares.

That's BackupPC's job with a nice web interface. Go for it :)