Need Advice on Backups (w/wo Time Machine)

Just purchased a Mac Mini with Snow Leopard Server. Setup is in a small office with two users, with expansion in the future. The mac mini, as most of you know, has two hard drives, one with the system files on it and an empty one for use as you deem. I have an external 1TB hard drive as well, that I was using for backing up my laptop. Now that I have a server, I am wondering how I should run my backups. I was thinking about hosting all files on the main hard drive, using Time machine to back up to the secondary hard drive, and maybe use the external to backup the laptops to. What do you think? I am also familiar with Carbon Copy Cloner for backups, and wouldn't mind using that either, to run backups. Thanks in advance for the input.

TM is not your best bet for backing up OS X Server. It will not fully backup some files.
You can use CCC to backup the Server if you boot the server from another source - for example the install DVD.
You might also consider using one HD for the OS and one HD for the data. You can then backup the data without taking the server offline, and backup the OS as often as is needed, which tends to be less often than the data needs to be backed up.
A Time Capsule might be a good bet for backing up the laptops.
You may also want to consider a service like carbonite for the laptops. Not sure if it would work for a server, but it would give you automatic offsite backups for your laptops.
You're definitely on the right track to think about backups as a priority - just make sure you decide what you need for backups, and go from there.

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    But I am new enough to the Mac that I don't know if that is 1) possible 2) the easiest. I got the sense that I could buy an Airport and attach a hard disk to that but it seemed like a kind of expensive solution.
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    bobmcgraw
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    I was backing up my Macbook Air, by using a drive attached to my iMac, and the iMac was sharing the drive. I could happily connect, and configure time machine on the Macbook to use the drive, and away it went.....
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    Now I have discovered this, I really need to re-think my setup - perhaps share the volume by plugging it into my Airport Extreme Base Station.
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    Roberto 17 wrote:
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  • Time machine on external drive will not back up itunes media file on a separate external drive. Have already reformated itunes media drive,dragged itunes media backup file from time machine (old copy) and removed time machine plist and restarted.

    Two external drives, one for time machine backups and a second (daisy chained firewire) for itunes media folder . Time machine fails to backup the media file saying could not be completed, with no error specified. Steps taken already include reformating drive with media, dragging older media backup file from time machine disc to media disc, and deleting time machine plist and starting time macine preferences upon startup. Media folder is approx 200 gb, mostly ripped dvd movies.
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    Tks for the help. Tried to eliminate duplicates. Copy below.
    6/11/14 3:07:33.458 PM com.apple.backupd[532]: Found 2332 files (193.66 GB) needing backup
    6/11/14 3:07:33.488 PM com.apple.backupd[532]: 219.71 GB required (including padding), 539.32 GB available
    6/11/14 3:09:42.200 PM com.apple.backupd[532]: Copied 1201 items (51.5 MB) from volume Macintosh HD. Linked 2894.
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