Closest Equivalent to Time Machine for Windows?

Hello,
I was wondering what recommendations the forum users have for backup for windows. I use apple at home with time machine and love it. Unfortunately I have a few family members who use windows (mostly 2000/xp). What is the closest equivalent to time machine that I could set them up with? Something that is free (hopefully) and automatic.
Thanks for any assistance.
-Grey

There is no Windows equivalent of Time Machine as the hard/soft links necessary are only available on HFS+ formatted drives. However, I believe there are backup programs that claim incremental backups or backups to a network drive such as Acronis TrueImage and Norton Ghost v.14. Neither are free. For free, XP has Backup. It's on your install CD. On XP Pro, Backup is preloaded. I not familiar with the Vista equivalent.

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