I use CrashPlan myself and think its awesome! It isn't open source but the program is free. They have Windows, Mac, Linux, even Solaris installers and provide multiple backup options which include:
1. Backup to internal/external hard drive 2. Backup to a friends computer 3. Backup to their servers http://b3.crashplan.com/consumer/features.html Devin On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:09 AM, James Carroll <[email protected]> wrote: > I use rsync, or unison, for both offsite and onsite backups, (I even have a > great python script written by Andrew for doing incremental backups nicely, > which I HIGHLY recommend everyone here get a copy of, it's way cool). But > this is beyond the abilities of "normal" people, and I have never tried to > teach my father to use this. > For "normal" people, I assume you mean those who will be running windows. > For them, I set up a simple linux server to back up to, and hand them > winscp, which will run on Windows, and happily copy or more importantly sync > with the linux system over ssh. Thus I set up the dynamic dns, ssh and all > the rest, and they just have to learn to use winscp. > That is how I set up off-site backups for people like my father. > For local system backups, unison or rsync is great on linux, and when in > windows I still use those same tools under cygwin, but that is beyond the > capabilities of the "normal" users I believe that you are referring to, so I > point them at toucan over in portable apps. That seems to work well for them > to sync to their external hard drives plugged into their local computers. > http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/toucan > It will also let them backup to a zip file etc. does a nice job, is open > source, and free, easy enough for a non-pro to use, and even has some nice > encryption support if you need it. > To summarize: winscp for remote backups, toucan for local backups. > James > > -- > "And very early in the morning > the first day of the week, > they came unto the sepulchre > at the rising of the sun..." (Mark 16:2) > > Web: http://james.jlcarroll.net > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- Devin Flake 801-368-5595 [email protected] www.devinflake.com flake.homelinux.net -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
