backup software help

[okey]

hi guys

I have got a pc at work which acts has a server for about 5 other pc's, but i am thinking about putting another hdd in it, so i can backup certain data on it, every night.

what programs do you guys suggest, which are fairly easy to use, ie. once setup all it takes is one click to backup

thanks

[mc.dodd]

you could try..

StorageCraft ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3..

http://www.storagecraft.com/products...rotectDesktop/


provides quick and reliable disaster recovery, system migration and data protection for Windows desktops and laptops. ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3 provides hardware independent restore for physical to physical system (P2P) recovery. ShadowProtect Desktop 3 also supports conversion from physical systems to virtual environments (P2V), virtual environments to physical systems (V2P) and virtual environments to virtual environments (V2V).
ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3 is very complementary to VMWare™ Workstation and M*cros*ft™ Virtual PC for quick and reliable disaster recovery. VMWare Workstation 6.0 includes full support for ShadowProtect backup image files for simple conversion from physical systems to virtual environments.

ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3 provides the following benefits:
•Supports Windows 2000, XP and Vista.
•Bare metal recovery of Windows desktops and laptops in minutes.
•Restore or migrate backup images to and from physical systems and virtual
•environments (P2V, V2P and V2V).
•Hardware independent restore of backup images to different systems (P2P).
•Schedule automatic full and incremental backups.
•Bootable recovery CD provides automatic hardware detection and network support.
•Simple view to quickly recover files and folders or update backup images.
•Compress and encrypt backup images for efficiency and security.
•Save backup images to USB, Firewire, NAS, SAN or any network location.

Save backups to any location:
ShadowProtect backup can be saved to USB, FireWire, an attached storage device or network location.
Schedule automatic backups

ShadowProtect provides an easy to use scheduler so that point-in-time backups can be taken automatically
while you work. Schedule full or incremental backups of your system and data.
Save backups to any location

ShadowProtect backup can be saved to USB, FireWire, an attached storage device or network location.
View backup files for quick file and folder recovery

ShadowProtect point-in-time backups can be assigned a drive letter as a read-write or read-only volume.
The mounting features of ShadowProtect allow you to restore files and folders or update an existing
point-in-time backup.

Perform remote or bare metal system recovery

The ShadowProtect Recovery CD allows you to perform a bare metal system restore in minutes. The Recovery CD features allow you to remotely recover your system and data without physically visiting the system.
Boot CD does it all:

The ShadowProtect Boot CD is self-contained so it's not even necessary to install ShadowProtect. It boots either VistaPE or WinPE (your choice) and does everything from backups to bare-metal system restores!

[Mr.James]

Windows Backup... Can be scheduled to run at nght so you just set it and forget it.