I was looking for some suggestions on the best way to set up a backup drive. It is 250 gb usb/firewire external. I have 6 systems to back up, networked together. 2 running Win98 the rest are XP Pro. Contents to back up do not exceed 10gb each so this is plenty of storage for now. because of the 4GB file size limit with FAT32 Should I partition a space for Win 98 systems(fat32) and one for WinXP(NTFS). Or should I format all with NTFS and just backup from one of the XP machines over the network? Im thinking the backup time will be faster running on each individual machine rather than over the network?

Thanks for any help.

Rob

Yes you'll need some Fat32 space...

I'd back up over the network....But you can play around with both methods and see which works best for you.

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