I need to back up several hundred employee's NTFS windows machines to a local network server. The name of each disk volume is the name of the employee.

Can I boot each computer with a linux boot disk, compress an image of the disk, and store it as the employee's name on the remote server?

Are there any special requirements the boot disk should have - (does samba need to be running to handle this task?)

Does anyone have a convenient script for such a process? I am running into problems with Ghost and was wondering if there was an easier Linux solution.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

There are quite a few client-server backup applications available. afbackup, amanda, backuppc, bacula, openafs, and a few others. I know Bacula and BackupPC has support for Windows clients; the others may as well. Take a look at those websites to get an idea of which one works best for you.