What's the best way of backing up files over a small network?

MikeHunt79

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I've got one server with Ubuntu 7.10 and a raid 1 drive setup, and I want to back up the files from 5 other PC's all running various flavours of windows onto the Raid 1 drives...

What would be the best way of doing this?

I'm thinking that there is 2 options:

1) Windows file sharing
2) Set up an ftp server on each windows rig.

If there a way I can make windows file sharing offer access to a whole drive with a password? So far I can only share a drive, but I've found no way of making it ask for some sort of password...
 
Samba file sharing would be one way to ask for a password to access a drive on the Ubuntu machine.

The basics are:
1) User has account on Linux Machine
2) Set up same user as a user on Samba
3) Run Samba with a script telling it what's shared and who has access.
4) When you try to access the drive on Windows through Network Neighbourhood, it should ask you for a password.

There's plenty of info out there.
 
Setup a shared drive on the server, then enable it on each machine and either just manually copy the files into the drive everynight or setup a little batch file in windows scheduler to do it for you.
 
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