Backing up across the network

[phantom404]

I'm trying to backup my sistesr comp and my moms comp through my comp. We are on teh same workgroup and are all running windows xp. I Sharred their drives and can see them across the network but when i go to back up their files(create image), it says i cant copy windows folder, documents folder, boot.ini, etc. I was wondering if there was a way to share these folders so i can copy them?

 

[Genx87]

Make sure they arent logged in, if there is anybody logged in and using a file you will be denied access to the file if you are simply trying to copy.

 

[Nocturnal]

How about just taking their hard drive and taking control/ownership of the entire C: drive and then copying it to your hard drive? That's what we do. The reason why you can't copy those files is because they're actually being used.

 

[phantom404]

How do you so called "take Controll" unless your talking about physically take out the drive and stick it in my comp. What i was wantint to do was set a schedule for the comps to be backed up.

Thanks for the reply...keep them coming please

 

[Slowlearner]

Its going to be difficult to backup if they have files open, and the windows swap file always creates problems. A good folder replication program is available from www.karenware.com called Replicator; you can set the replication/duplication of folder at set times, and it is quite good at handling open files.