Backups in a mixed environment

[Kyle Sexton]

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

-- 
Kyle Sexton