[Natsu]

There was once a time when I as a junior employee was left to create a backup system out of shared drives on the Novell server, XCOPY and AUTOEXEC.BAT.

It worked better than one might expect. You'd get emails about failed backups (backup flag files removed after a successful backup), backups were versioned, and restore was quick & easy (execute a simple script from the shared drive, then sys c: from a boot disk).