On Jul 8, 2010, at 1:08 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote:

> Can't help but wonder if there's a market for software that will let
> two friends assign a drive to the other's backup. e.g. you and I both
> have a 1TB drive the other can use as BU.
> The software would need to encrypt and would need to be frugal with
> how it updated to keep bandwidth reasonable. Bad idea, I know.
> Nevermind.

All it needs to be is a decent gui front-end to rsync, which is widely used for 
just this sort of off-site backup.

The tools to do this are here, just in serous Unix-guru form.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs


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