I bought an Ultra-X P.H.D. board after a trade show and I've been very happy with it. I got it packaged with their Quick Tech diagnostic software and some various plugs and control BIOS chips and they've helped out on a number of very dead systems. The board can find bad RAM (providing there is a working memory controller) and any number of other problems. I picked up the whole kit for under $1000 (show pricing) and I'd say I've got my money's worth out of it. My only regret is that I got the ISA version because at the time I was pretty much guaranteed to have ISA in any machine I was working on, but now with the legacy free machines, I kinda wish I'd gone with the PCI version. You can find them at http://www.uxd.com.
We use Veritas NetBackup with a user base of slightly less than 150 users. Very unobtrusive, relativly easy to setup and configure and good support from Veritas. This system does incremental backups and will not duplicate files (i.e. if one user has their W2K system folder backed up, other users will not). We have it configured to do complete backups on everyone's machine so that if we have a machine die, we can just burn some CD's and completely rebuild them in an hour or so. You could simply backup the data folders if you didn't have the drive space on your server. I don't have the priceing info in front of me, but it was very reasonable compared to the other options we persued.
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I bought an Ultra-X P.H.D. board after a trade show and I've been very happy with it. I got it packaged with their Quick Tech diagnostic software and some various plugs and control BIOS chips and they've helped out on a number of very dead systems. The board can find bad RAM (providing there is a working memory controller) and any number of other problems. I picked up the whole kit for under $1000 (show pricing) and I'd say I've got my money's worth out of it. My only regret is that I got the ISA version because at the time I was pretty much guaranteed to have ISA in any machine I was working on, but now with the legacy free machines, I kinda wish I'd gone with the PCI version. You can find them at http://www.uxd.com.
We use Veritas NetBackup with a user base of slightly less than 150 users. Very unobtrusive, relativly easy to setup and configure and good support from Veritas. This system does incremental backups and will not duplicate files (i.e. if one user has their W2K system folder backed up, other users will not). We have it configured to do complete backups on everyone's machine so that if we have a machine die, we can just burn some CD's and completely rebuild them in an hour or so. You could simply backup the data folders if you didn't have the drive space on your server. I don't have the priceing info in front of me, but it was very reasonable compared to the other options we persued.