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Small office 6 computers what is the best backup system for this type of setup. Individuals backing up individual computers at present and takes time and alot of disks.
 
Are these computers on a network?

If so, there's loads of software available eg [broken link removed].

Loads more info on

If not on a network you could use disk imaging software which can do incremental backups eg Acronis.
 
It depends on what you want to back up and how your data is stored/distributed. You need to think about such things as your restore point objective (i.e. how much data loss are you willing to risk). What you back up will also come in to consideration for your restore time objective (how long to get back up and running if a failure/data loss occurs. Also consider off site copies - you need to be able to recover if the whole office burns down.
 
Set up an office network. Have a NW share for each user on a server. Get users to use the shared drives for work files, then backup the shared drives.

Budget is your only limitation but should be governed by your knowledge of how important your data is to you.
Could your business survive the loss of 1 day, 1 week, 1 years data?
Do want to use offsite storage in case of site loss?
Is there someone who will ensure success of backups each morning?

If anyones got private files on their own PCs they wanna back up tell them to do it themselves via USB key or CD burning but you're not responsible for them.

edit: Post crossed with dearg dooms who raises the same points.
 
Also, it depends on what hardware/operating system you have. When you say lots of disks, do you mean floppy disks? Are you running quite old (in computer terms!) machines? Do you have a network? Do you have CD burners on each of the computers? Do you have USB ports?
 
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