From: "Geo" 

"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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