Backup a MAC to a Windows Server, Possible?

Data Backup 3 might do what you want and there is a free downloadable trial:

http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_backup_info.php

Also have a look at:

http://versiontracker.com/php/qs.php?mode=basic&action=search&str=backup&srchArea=macosx&submit=Go

Also Dantz Retrospect:  http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13108

Well, the backup to your PC disks is no problem. Just format a desired partition size as fat32. If the Macs are running Leopard, then just point Time machine at the fat partition and it will manage it automatically. If they are tiger or earlier then you will need an aftermarket Mac app to do auto backups. http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/ChronoSync/chrono_overview.html?referrer=googleCS3
The tape is trickier. Apple has never released an enterprise scale backup APP. Aftermarket ones also languished for years in terms of ease of use, scriptability etc. Read the following article for some options.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9019843&pageNumber=4

pheidius,

if it is backing up to fat or fat32, wouldn't symantec backup exec handle backing it up?

Not a MAC guy, but I would think that if I could get the files and all the MAC "metadata" information to the server's hard drive, then Backup exec would handle the backup to tapes?

You may run into the maximum 4 Gig file size limit with FAT32, though.

One possibility might be to install MacFuse:  http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23729/macfuse  to allow the Mac to write to an NFTS volume (assuming this functionality is not included in the upcoming update to Leopard), then use one of the OS X backup programs to back up the Mac to a disk image. Then use Symantec to back up the disk image to tape.

Hi,

I am not sure if you have any agent to backup MAC from backupexec. but If you have CA ARCserve backup installed you can install the client agent for MAC os X and run the backups to a disk or to a tape. Or you can backup the data to a disk and if required you can migrate that data to tape for moving the tape to off-site location.

DR of MAC or rather any OS other than Windows is not a easy thing. What you can certainly do in case of a MAC os is to back up the files and restore them. System level files cannot be overwritten in run time.

bhanu

you know
I thought of superduper and ccc first but neither support tape. You could use either to push an image to the server disk but not directly to tape.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/showthread.php?t=857&highlight=tape+backup
http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=806&highlight=tape+backup
but you are right about the the mac/client agent though. I never gave much thought to that. Norton so burned its Mac reputation in my mind that I stooped even considering it as a Mac vender anymore. It would be nice to get them back but they have had a horrible track record for a long time now of really screwing up Mac directory structures with other products.
Retrospect doesn't currently support Leopard but an update is expected soon.

another possibility is netvault http://www.bakbone.com/
BRu has had bad reports with intel macs
http://techrepublic.com.com/5260-1-0.html?query=backup%20exec Here is a forum of issues with symantech Overall, though, there are nowhere near the number of complaints I half expected. Maybe symantech is back for Mac in this niche at least.

The agent for Symantec is approx $250 per MAC, which isn't bad for us.  We only have 3 MACs, and I have a good budget to work with.  

But, it could be costly to others.  If I had a large number of MACs, I would probably backup all of the MAC desktops to a single MAC server, and then use the symantec agent to backup that MAC server on a nightly basis.  
The downside would be that it requires a two step process to restore and backup a MAC desktop.

I just tripped across this product:

http://www.filereplicationpro.com/index.cfm

I wonder if it would solve your problem.