> > I thought it best not to mention the $10 surplus sale pentium 3 that I > outfitted with linux and stuck at my dad's house in Boise for my rsyncing > needs, because, let's face it, that is not going to work for average family > member. > > Or is it? > > What are our recommendations for cheap, massive (meaning 80-500+ GB) offsite > storage that is dead simple to use from any OS? > > And I am talking only about manual storage here, not some "magical" rolling > backup system. If someone wants it to be automated, they can find a program > to do it to the internet-attached storage.
Now, this involves some effort on your part, but back home I set up a linux box with rsync, and then used a tool called delta copy [1] (a rsync-front end via cygwin) on a windows machine to select which folders to back up, when, and whether to do a 'delete when I delete it here' or 'keep it forever' style backup (the technical terms elude me right now). This isn't the easiest to recover from- when the computer had a power surge and the hdd fried, I had to tar the whole backup folder, then winscp it back to the machine. Not for an un-initiated grandma, but if someone technically savvy is around to recover, a decent solution with an easy enough front end. Jake Adams [1] http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
