[DM-MUG] Backing up strategies and ideas....

[Victoria L. Herring]

I am in the midst of trying to move from REtrospect to another 
program [not sure which yet] for backing up my small office network. 
I have read the TAke Control of Backing Up ebook and been downloading 
and trying out various types of software.  I have plenty of La Cie FW 
Harddrives....I'm wondering about whether I should use my 17" G4 iMac 
as the main machine to run the backups [which might mean going back 
to Retrospect and it's client software, which I had been trying to 
get away from because of proprietary nature]...or getting an 
inexpensive Mac [Mini, eMac, iMac???] to act as the network 
server....I have an extra Cube, but it's too lovely to hide it 
somewhere to just do backups.....

any ideas or suggestions of the cheapest and most reliable way to go? 
With the new BackUP software from Apple, some offsite storage may be 
possible but first I'm battling the issue of figuring out the 
hardware and software configuration.

I've tried and find okay, they each have different features: 
Silverkeeper from LaCie, MimMac, SuperDuper, NTIShadow2, and there 
are others....too many!!!
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