Question About Backing Systems Up

Hi All,
We are running several workstations with 10.3.9 on a Windows 2003 server network, and I am curious to know if there is any way to back up each system to the Win 2003 server so that we can recover if there ever are any problems?
We are using Retrospect on the Win 2003 server with daily backups.
Any help would be greatly appreicated,
David

If you only want to back up the contents of user home folders, you can do this safely by using the Disk Utility to create a new device image in the /Users/Shared/ folder large enough to store the files. Next, drag the files you want to back up onto the mounted device image and copy the .dmg file to the Windows server. From here, each .dmg can be treated as if it was a normal Windows file. It can also be compressed on the Mac if you want to save space on the server.
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