Thank you Toby, really helpful. We¹ve been trying out Carbon Copy again and
it does appear to do everything we want it to ­ very nice piece of software!

What we need to do now is get a shell script to mount a windows 2003 server
share. Anyone got any tips?

Many thanks,
Matt


On 15/08/2011 14:53, "Toby Leighton" <[email protected]> wrote:

> My instinct would be carbon copy cloner, running or rather connecting to the
> root account of each of the 6 machines and always backing up to the same image
> file. With CCC you can select the folders you want to back up as opposed to
> doing the whole disk each time.
> 
> Another very good product which would achieve what I think you are trying to
> achieve is crashplan pro / enterprise version ( or maybe even the standard
> version ) it's free / cheap depending on what you do with it.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 15 Aug 2011, at 13:03, Matt Healey <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> Wonder if you could help in any way. I¹m trying to backup all users (there
>> are 6 in total) to a storage drive on a server but would like to be able to
>> do this once they have all been logged off. Work at a school if you¹re
>> wondering why that is and we¹d like to run backups overnight rather than
>> effect their usage in the day.
>> We need something that is as descrete as possible to doesn¹t interfere with
>> the users once they¹re logged in.
>> 
>> Does anyone know of any solutions? We¹ve tried Carbon Copy but that appears
>> user specific. Also tried Time Machine but that seems really unstable when
>> backing up to our drobo attached to the mac server ­ please shout at me if
>> this shouldn¹t be the case!
>> 
>> Thanks very much,
>> Matt 

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