>>Is there any backup system already in place on the server or elsewhere? If so, you might be able to piggyback on that.
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>As I mentioned...did I mention it? Damned flu. Anyway. They are faithfully backing up every night by copying the data to a local hard drive then to a zip disk. They, and the staff person who get's stuck doing it after hours, would like to automate it.
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>The data easily fits on a CD. Several times over. I'd rather not to tapes since it's not a huge amount of data, and there's something really nicely accessible about a CD. So easy to find your data.

I agree 1,000% about accessibility. I was just wondering what they're doing to back up their entire server/workstations etc. Surely they don't want to reinstall everything from scratch if they lose a server or WS hard drive? If they're in a POS environment they likely have to minimize downtime.

I'm a bit sensitive to this issue because the drive in my main W2K box crapped out yesterday evening and I just got it back up this afternoon after getting a replacement drive. Would have been a disaster without good backups.