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

[Stephen Ryan]

On Tue 14 Feb 2012 05:06:24 PM EST, Alan Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Stephen Ryan 
> <stephen at sryanfamily.info <mailto: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.

Yup it is; I was assuming, though, that with a WD network drive, he'd 
have an easier time of setting up client-side backups than trying to 
persuade the WD network drive to install something centralized.  My 
assumption might very well be wrong...