What / how can I backup to several office PCs?

Question

Backup

Hello!
We have 10-12 PCs with a 1TB HDD in the office, this volume is used, of course, by 10-15%.
An interesting idea arose, why don't we use them all for backup? For example: there is a PC with a file ball, it raises via WLAN all computers (at night) to which
the backup will go, copies (preferably encrypts beforehand), then turns it off
?

Answer 1

Microsoft has its own SyncToy and RoboCopy, a popular third party is DSynchronize (can be run as a service).
With their help, it will definitely be possible to pull files lying on the ball from local computers.
With Robocopy, you can do a lot through the command line, for example, exclude files:

/xf "~*.*" "*~.*" "desktop.ini" "Thumbs.db" ".Sync*"

For example, CryptSync and Resilio Sync can encrypt.

Answer 2

The idea is so-so, IMHO.
1.Users will have access to backups. It is clear that you can restrict rights, etc., etc., but are you sure that you will do everything right? And most importantly, what will you do everything right during operation?
2. The recovery process in such a scheme seems to be simply fabulous.
3. Too complicated scheme, too many points of failure, you are tired of accompanying it.

Answer 3

Cobian Backup + scripts

Answer 4

If you are too lazy to learn something or write scripts, then Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.2 will help. A couple of mouse clicks and everything is backed up as it should.

Answer 5

Depends on what you are going to back up and for what.
It can be implemented both on standard Windows archiving mechanisms, and on third-party utilities with binding from scripts.