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

[Alan Johnson]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Ralph A. Mack <ralphmack at comcast.net>wrote:

> If backup (or any act of maintenance) is something I need to remember to
> do, it will never happen. If it's something I can set up once and then
> forget about for a few years, that'll work. I know that's not the attitude
> of an IT professional, but home is where I come to leave my profession
> behind for a few hours and use my computers to make art and music and
> stories and write essays and plan the revolution :), using open source
> tools wherever I can.
>

With the other clarifications in this thread, I think you are on the right
path for your goals.  However, unless I am missing your hyperbole, you are
dooming yourself if you plan to forget about your backups for a few years.
At the very least, you need to check it once in a while to make sure it is
still running as expected, no matter what solutions you go with.  The
least-effort, safest solution is probably to have something email you when
it runs with short but sufficient output to confirm the backup ran
completely as expected.  That way you can be sure things are happy with a
glance at an email and a quick delete, and the more frequent you get them,
the sooner you are likely to notice if they stop coming.  I'd go with daily
myself, but you'll have to figure out what's right for you.  Don't relay on
emails only in the case of failure because you email system could fail just
as well.
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