From: "Randy H" 

Yes, You install clients on the target machines.  The professional version comes with
2 client licenses.

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> "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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