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

[Alan Johnson]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Stephen Ryan <stephen at sryanfamily.info>wrote:

> 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:
> >     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...
>
>
Any network drive could be used as the backup storage by any other machine
running the backup service, but with the additional clarifications, your
guess was more useful than mine anyway. =)  I'd go this route too if all I
was doing was a single client and don't care if other people's backups
fail.  I'm the sysadm in my house whether I like it or not.  If some one
isn't doing proper backups, I'm the one stuck with the job of data recovery
anyway which is way more work, headache, and heartache, than keeping a
backup server running.  =)
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