I backup 5 machines across the network, once a week. I use the aforementioned Stomp (Seagate/veritas) backup as a scheduled job, using my "server" machine that is hosting the USB 2.0 hard drive to control the backup. 2 are wireless, 3 are wired, they are all sharing the C: ad D: drives to the server machine.

It starts at 11pm and is finished before 6 am.

I backup everything (including the OS folder) as I've got the space on the disk, the bandwidth on the network, and I'm too lazy to separate out specific folders.

In the event of a crash, I'd likely reinstall the OS and applications, then restore the docs and other important stuff from the backup, in that order.


[This message has been edited by skofarrell (edited 08-18-2003).]