I have a spare machine lying around which i want to turn into a member server (i.e. a normal Win XP machine thats no longer required) It has one hard drive but what i want to do is back up the contents of this "server".

I dont want this to be backed up with our usual domain structure scenarios. What i would like to do is add another hard drive to the machine and use that as a backup drive in case one fails. As this is not a very important roled server is it possible for me to buy another hard drive connect to it and backup contents? If yes what kind of hard drive do i buy and what software would be needed for the whole drive to be backed up?

Thanks

Any other suggestions?

Parts needed: 1 HDD with the same (or bigger) capacity

1 Acronis Disk Director (or norton ghost).

Labour: ghost your old HDD onto the new one.

TA-DA!!!