It looks like finances are finally starting to move toward my being able to create a backup server for my home computers over the next few paychecks, and I'm looking for input on how you guys do your backups, and any critiques on what I intend to do.
I have four computers on my LAN, two Ubuntu laptops, an XP desktop, and an XP/Ubuntu dualboot desktop. I'm thinking of having the backup server boot itself up once a day via BIOS, ping each of these computers, then attempt a backup of any computers that are on, then power itself off. With the laptops and the dualboot desktop, I figure rsync would work (since that XP instance is only for gaming, I don't really care about backing it up). But what would be the best way to back up my wifes XP computer? -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jan 7 - Ruby on Rails Feb 4 - TBD
