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Time Machine and Windows

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SoundTheSurrender

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Is it possible to network Time Machine to read a folder on a Windows Machine?

I want to set up a Leopard Machine that reads two My Doc folders, one is my Mom's and the other is my Dad's.

Is this possible?
 
Are the systems networked? I don't think Time Machine can back up another networked system, but I could be wrong.
 
Windows Home Server. Check it out. Now $499 from HP for 500GB, and you can slap any old HDDs you have in there at-will.

If you'd rather not spend that, then set up a sync job to sync the important documents on the other machines to yours, then back it up with TM. Or set up a sync job on the Windows machine to map a drive to the share on the TM box and copy the given data.
 
If you're worried about running it locally, You may find someone willing to write a perl script to back the folders up. I'm far from an expert with perl, but it seems like it would be easy enough to append the date the My Documents folder name and copy it (not necessarily in that order).
 
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