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

Stephen Ryan stephen at sryanfamily.info
Tue Feb 14 16:47:06 EST 2012


On 02/14/2012 03:16 PM, Ralph A. Mack 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...)
>
> Ralph
>

Deja Dup is the default backup app in Ubuntu 11.10; it was very easy to 
get set up and it's very unobtrusive during normal usage.


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