From: "RobertB." 


I think Retrospect on Windows runs clients on each of the machines it backs
up, but I'm not using it on my Windows machine.

FYI, what about Ultraback, which is what I've been using on NT?


In article , "Geo"
 wrote:

> "Randy H"  wrote in message
> news:41c5da99$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Look at Retrospect, from Dantz (who got sucked up by EMC, IIRC.)
>
> When you install it, do you control it from the machine it's installed on or
> does it give you some silly web interface or other remote control interface
> to configure it?
>
> I ask because I don't want any remote controls. I just want a nice simple
> backup program like what we used to have back in the early NT4 days except
> updated to handle the file permissions of todays NTFS.
>
> I really don't want a bunch of client applications and crap that has to be
> installed on all the systems that don't have a tape drive just to make a
> backup of them.
>
> My idea of the ideal backup program is one that doesn't open up any ports on
> any machines, it just uses standard windows networking features to backup
> the machines and allows creation of a boot CD to restore them. It looks like
> Dantz has the boot CD part covered but I'm unclear on if it requires agents
> on all the remote machines you want to backup.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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