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

[Alan Johnson]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Stephen Ryan <stephen at sryanfamily.info>wrote:

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


That's a client side app that would have to be configured on each client,
right?  Backuppc will certainly take a little fiddling for each machine,
but not much more than a client side backup program will take for each
machine and it will handle backups for all the mentioned systems in one web
interface running on one server, so long as the files you want to backup
are made available over the network.
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