On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Ralph A. Mack <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi folks, > > I just had to replace my backup drive for my main development system here > at the house and I replaced it with a 2 TB WD network drive. Now that all > my systems can see it, I'd like to do reasonable backups for all the > systems, including my Linux boxes. (With 2 TB, I'm not too concerned about > running out of space. :) ) > > I don't want to take a lot of time studying the problem or fiddling with a > lot of options. I'd rather do my creative stuff than spend my life doing > IT. (I switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu for a reason. :) ) Backup for me is a > practical necessity rather than a life project, so I want something that > just works, errs on the side of caution, doesn't require continuing > attention and maintenance, etc. So I turned on Time Machine from my Mac. > What can I use that will provide comparable simplicity for my Linux boxes? > Do any of them also have a reasonable Windows port? (My witless Atom > netbook is running Windows 7 Essentials and my Mac has a bootcamp > partition...) > > I've heard good things about BackupPC, but never personally tried it. It supports Linux/Win/OSX, and is designed for backing up to servers (your network drive in this case). It has a Web GUI. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html -Shawn
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