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OhEsEcks said:
You could get a bog standard NAS with Time Capsule functionality and have it backup to that. It's a bit more involved setting it up, than an Apple Time Capsule. But it's an option. Works well with Synology NAS's. Though I don't backup to my own as I have a Time Capsule I bought before the NAS (the NAS is where I store all my music, images and videos, the Time Capsule is just for backing up the machines since my music, images and videos easily clogged up my HDDs and Time Capsule).

http://www.synology.com/en-us/support/tutorials/481
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Is there nothing I could run on a Windows machine that would act as a Timecapsule service?

No chance i am buying another bit of hardware :)
 
All you technically need for Time Machine officially is an AFP network share. You can enable unsupported volumes and use SMB (ie. have a Windows server hold the backups), though I have no idea how well this works (use a Mac mini as a server as per my signature, and that works perfectly).
 
yimpster said:
Is there nothing I could run on a Windows machine that would act as a Timecapsule service?

No chance i am buying another bit of hardware :)
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You need an AFP network share to use Time Machine. Windows and AFP don't go together very well. There's some third party software that provides it, but it will cost you.
 
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