My Backup plan - will it work?

[razzel]

Hi - I need some advice.
My home LAN consists of two Celeron 800's, 256 meg Ram, 40 gig hard drives running XP Pro. One Pentium II 400 with 128 meg Ram, Win 98 SE, a 12 gig hard drive, a 6 gig harddrive and a cdburner.

The two celerons are used daily for everything from games to surfing, to vpn-ing into the office. The pentium 2 is only used when our son and 2 of his buddies all want to game at once.

The Pentium 2 is kind of a hand me down and has parts that were updated by newer and better components. The 2 hard drives share an ide channel while the cd-burner is alone on the secondary channel, I have a spare 15 gig harddrive. My thought is to slave the 15 gig hd to the cd-burner then use the 15 gig as a network drive to backup data from the two celerons. I can use the cd-burner to periodically back up the 15gig.

1) I know you can not do a complete back up of two 40 gigs to a 15 gig, I don't backup programs I can reload but I do want to back up data created with those programs, so 15 gigs is more than adequate. (Oh the fury of a redheaded wife who looses her recipe file).

2) I know it take a lot of cd's to back up 15gigs but see number one. I don't think that drive will ever become close to being full. Plus incremental burns will spread out the pain a little.

3) Using the back-up utility in XP Pro, I can select the folders to be backed up. I can choose an incremental backup. And I can even schedule the task to run daily.

4) I have verified that XP Pro back will back up files to a selected drive and folder on the Pentium II.

What do you think? Is my hardware plan doable? Is the backup plan doable? Any advice is welcome. It just seems too easy. I must be missing something.

Thanks

[Disk_Contented]

It sounds like a well thought out and commendable plan to me. Can't see any real probs cropping up. (famous last words)