Backup of 100+ Mac clients (10.4,10.5,10.6) ... alternatives please

We have been using Retrospect Workgroup 6.1 successfully for many years on OS X Server v10.4 & v10.5 to backup Mac OSX Clients on 10.4.
With OS X Server 10.4 was fine, no problems really.
With OS X Server 10.5 it was OK, but occassionally we would have to reinstall the latest Retrospect Client v6.2.234.
It's fine on PC's BTW :-O
Now with Mac OS X 10.6 clients, and Mac OS X 10.5 Clients w updates, the Retrospect Client reinstall is now down to bi-weekly and I'm totally feed-up.
I don't believe Retrospect 8.x wil be any better.
Retrospect Workgroup 6.1 should have been solved first, and quite honestly I'm not paying for 5-10 new versions and multiple client licenses, especially as their is NO upgrade path.
So I'm jumping ship and looking for alternatives.
As all my clients are Advertising Agencies, and we are looking at 10-30 Gig per Mac per day backup.
I do not feel that TimeMachine is any kind of option, as TimeMachine kicks off too often and I need to back within the 10pm to 8 am time window. And I don't want to have to wangle some weirdo TimeMachine utility setup on every Mac either.
Installing secondary drives on each Mac, for TimeMachine, is madness and expensive too.
Don't mention SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner please, as I'm taking centralised network backups here... of specific folders (USERS) on each Mac.
So, what options or alternatives do I have please?
Maybe Retrospect 8.x is Good?
I do find it overly laborious to setup though! Especially if it inherits 6.1 issues...
Thank you.
Message was edited by: James Rothschild
Message was edited by: James Rothschild

We are currently using Retrospect 6.1 to backup laptops and Retrospect 8.2 to backup servers. We currently don't backup desktops because they are all configured to use Network Logins and Network Home Directories and as a (deliberate) result, all the user files are stored on a Mac server.
Retrospect has a great feature set, and Retrospect 8.2 is now mostly reliable. Unfortunately speed wise Retrospect has made little or no progress. A big problem is that all the various tasks Retrospect does are all written so they only take advantage of a single processor. It also only in 8.2 was finally made 64bit aware so it could (allegedly) take advantage of more than 2GB of RAM. I run it on an 8-core Mac pro with 10GB of RAM and hardly ever see it move much above 100% (i.e. one core) CPU usage. It can spend hours 'storing snapshot' and does not take advantage of the multiple CPU cores by doing a scan of the next computer at the same time.
So the features are ok, the reliability is mostly ok, but the speed ***** big time. (I will ignore the issue of SCSI reliability, we switched to using eSATA connected hard disks.)
Therefore Retrospect/Sonic Solutions now need to concentrate 100% of their efforts on a massive performance upgrade.
Tolis BRU has a lot of promise, but last I checked its 'support' for using hard disks as backup media was a sick joke. They also have an aversion to adding support for 'data de-duplication' a feature Retrospect and most serious backup solutions have. This is particularly useful for trimming down the amount of space taken by all the Microsoft Office font folders (grrr.).
For another company I advise on IT for, I switched them to using SuperDuper (also with eSATA disks) to back up their servers.

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