[PLUG] How do you backup your home PC's / Laptops?

[Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net>]

Eric's recent problem with a failed Mac drive have prompted me to ask 
how people
backup their home PC's and Laptops.     If you have other household 
members  how
do you ensure the backups are done ?


For me,  I have one Lenovo laptop running Ubuntu 10.04 64bit.   I use my own
wrapper script around duplicity , which does encrypted backups to my NAS.
A cron job runs incremental's nightly and full backup monthly.

Lee's Dpbackup wrapper:   http://public.perforce.com/wiki/Dpbackup

This works well, and if the PC is traveling,  the job just times out,  
or I can
bring up OpenVPN and run the incremental remotely.

I also have experimented with JungleDisk for Windows backup to Amazon S3
with very good results.

--

Lee Marzke,  lee@marzke.net   http://marzke.net/lee/
IT Consultant, VMware, VCenter, SAN storage, infrastructure, SW CM


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