Backups in a mixed environment

[djgoku]

On 4/23/07, cragos at gmail.com <cragos at gmail.com> wrote:
> My wife just lost a big chunk of a document she was working on on her
> Windows machine.  She wouldn't have lost it, however, if I'd rigged her box
> to do a nightly backup to a CVS server or something of the sort on my Ubuntu
> box.  I'm going to setup something like that now, but I'd like your
> suggestions on just precisely what to use on each end.
>
> 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.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> PS:  already pointed out Leapord's Time Machine, and got shot down.  No new
> Macs for us poor folk.  Might give
> http://www.mogware.com/FileHamster/ProductTour/ a shot,
> though, if I can't find a reasonable OSS networked solution.

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

Something along the lines of rsync + ssh.