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First, make sure the file and print sharing service has been installed on each 98 machine. Right click network neighborhood and verify it under the network components installed list. If not, click Add and then Service to install.

Second, share each 98 'C' drive and give each one a unique share name.

From your server you can map a drive to each of the 98 'C' drives. Set up your backup schedule from your server to run at night when your users are gone. When selecting what to backup you can select the shared 'C' drives. Make sure the machines are left on, but tell the users to logoff.

Hope this helps. I can elaborate if you need more specifics.

1st off, ask your self this, How disruptive will it be if one of their HDD's crashes and they lose all of their data.

You have 2 70 gig drives on a 2k server, use it.
Move their data from their local drives onto the server. Then backup it up in one central location.

Most of the time your users will shut their machine down at night which is the optimal time for backing up data. Hence their data will never get backed up.

Hard and fast rule, Data is never stored on the local machine, always on the server.

This is a uneccessary headache. Are the systems the same. If so one complete backup (an image)will cover it and you just need to back up the users data.
Instead of backing up 5 computers why not just make folders for them on the server and set thePCs up to save to the user's specific path. Then back up the computer. Create a login script to connect to the folders at startup or set it up in the users profiles. For most software you can setup the save path to another location. I create a My Documents folder on the desktop using a path to another drive and folder on the server. I'd do this with email, address books and everything else. Release a document explaining the policy change so everyone's on the same page.

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