I don't back up windows systems, just the samba server containing their mount points, but I do back up a few Linux systems using CrashPlan.
CrashPlan allows you to set up a local backup server on a Linux box, to which an arbitrary number of (free) clients can send their backups. You can then back up that box to the CrashPlan server, so with a small-office setup you can get by with just one ($50 annual) CrashPlan Pro subscription. Partial restores are easy enough for any user to figure out; one caveat with the free/Pro combination is that the free version is limited to daily backups, whereas if you want continuous backups of a given machine you need to pay for Pro. Daily is good enough for most users but not everyone. A couple years ago I discovered undetected corruption in the CrashPlan savesets stored on their cloud service, so I've also implemented a local rsnapshot-based set of python scripts so I have two different ways of recovering any file I care about. -rich _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
