No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

[Shawn O'Shea]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Ralph A. Mack <ralphmack at comcast.net>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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