How to do scheduled backups to server

[willibook1.42]

Hi i run a small office with 5 intel macs, 1 PPC mac and 1 PC, we also have an intel g5 imac that we use as a file server / backup machine.

The server is then using time machine to back up to an external drive. This has just stopped working. The drive has plenty of space, Timemachine just spins and says preparing backup - this continues even if you leave it doing this overnight

we were using a back up program called retrospect for scheduled backups of selected folders from all machines which would back up to the imac. retrospect is now not working as we have upgraded to Leopard and it does not work properly with Leopard

What options are there for scheduled backup software that we could run on the imac

I have seen this new server drive that says that it does scheduled backups over a network - will this work? or can we still use the imac to do this?

LaCie Ethernet Disk mini 500GB Gigabit Ethernet & USB 2.0

thanks

Will

 

[Satcomer]

With time Machine sometimes I see the Time Machine doing the same thing. To fix I just use Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility/ and do Disk Repairs on the sparse image that Time Machine made.

On a side note I think Time Machine was aimed toward home users and wasn't intended for server use. I just feel it is not robust enough for server use.