On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:43:50AM -0500, cragos@gmail.com wrote:

Server side requirements: 1: Minimal upkeep 2: Backed up files accessible without much hassle on the server side

Client side requirements: 1: Easy enough to use if my wife wants to make an unscheduled backup or change the directories/files being tracked 2: Easily scheduled

Ideally: 1: The client side software should also exist or have functional counterparts available for Linux and Mac OSX 2: The client side automation should run through Scheduled Tasks/run like a cron job, so that she doesn't have to have yet another permanently memory-resident application in her toolbar. 3: The server shouldn't require more than one or two open ports 4: The network traffic should be encrypted, so that if I chose to do remote backups, I wouldn't have to mess with tunneling.

What about just using a 'My Documents' redirection to a Samba share on your Linux box? That way anything she saves will automatically travel over to your Linux box. Then you can use something like rsnapshot on the Linux side to do the incremental backups.

On 4/23/07, cragos@gmail.com cragos@gmail.com wrote:

My wife just lost a big chunk of a document she was working on on her Windows machine. She wouldn't have lost it, however, if I'd rigged her box to do a nightly backup to a CVS server or something of the sort on my Ubuntu box. I'm going to setup something like that now, but I'd like your suggestions on just precisely what to use on each end.

Server side requirements: 1: Minimal upkeep 2: Backed up files accessible without much hassle on the server side

Client side requirements: 1: Easy enough to use if my wife wants to make an unscheduled backup or change the directories/files being tracked 2: Easily scheduled

Ideally: 1: The client side software should also exist or have functional counterparts available for Linux and Mac OSX 2: The client side automation should run through Scheduled Tasks/run like a cron job, so that she doesn't have to have yet another permanently memory-resident application in her toolbar. 3: The server shouldn't require more than one or two open ports 4: The network traffic should be encrypted, so that if I chose to do remote backups, I wouldn't have to mess with tunneling.

Any suggestions?

PS: already pointed out Leapord's Time Machine, and got shot down. No new Macs for us poor folk. Might give http://www.mogware.com/FileHamster/ProductTour/ a shot, though, if I can't find a reasonable OSS networked solution.

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

Something along the lines of rsync + ssh.