Backup idea on a network in an office

I have a small office with 20 Windows Pc's on a network (peer to peer type). I was wondering how to backup the Pc's. I would like to backup on a weekly or daily basis. I've tried to have the user's backup themselves but they don't always.
Is there something I can buy hardware wise?
Looking for ideas

 

Have been using SyncBack for number of years for Auto/Manual data backup, excellent program.
You have two global approaches. If ONE computer holds all the backups, you only need to install SyncBack on that computer. Create a backup profile/unique destination folder for each computer you want backed up. For automatic backup, you do not need Syncback loaded. Use XP's Schedule Task to run each backup profile at stated time. The other approach would be to install Syncback on all of the computers and create one backup profile in each program. You can save it on same computer or send to any other computer. Now would be the time to consider an additional "offsite" backup scheme to complement onsite. With external HDD so cheap, consider two and rotate each week... keeping last weeks at home.

 

Perhaps an unfashionable answer, but I'd recommend you invest in a server with tape backup. This will give you the following advantages:

• Moving from peer-to-peer to client/server will make it far easier to manage users. In particular, adding new users and sharing network resources throughout the network. You'll also have just one place to update when things change, for example, if a new system is added you won't have to update all the existing network resources to work with the new system - just update the server.
• Tape backup together with Windows 2003 shadow copy, allow you to not only backup, but also archive. That is, it is easy to roll back to previous version when every day problems occur. Many simpler backup systems are fine for disaster recovery, but not so good for sorting out those "I've just realised the spreadsheet I edited three weeks ago was actually better before - can you restore the old version" or when the finance director realises they need to review the figures as they were at year end three months ago.
• Tape backup can be used to back up and archive your documents, and you can still use a large NAS (network hard-drive) to store disk images along side, for disaster recovery.
• Centralising your main data can allow you to invest in good server hardware to store it, with sturdy systems such as a good quality RAID system hot swap. It can also make network design easier, by allowing you to position your main shared resource centrally on the fastest part of the network.

 

There was a product froom Belkin that was a box that a hard drive of your choice was installed in , came with software and would do unattended backups
Windows XP pro has a backup software - i do not know its capabiltiies
There is network backup software from veritas and you can search for others
Backing up your data ( especially unattended) is a very wise thing to do
It can save you a ton of heartache and aggrevation
Good idea