I really appreciate all of the suggestions that you guys have offered. I think I will checks out crashplan. I think the other suggestions are great, but maybe a little too hands on for both me (time) and him (technical saavy). If you have any other suggestions, keep them coming!
-david On Wednesday, April 28, 2010, Jacob Adams <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 > -------------------- 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
