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On 11/10/10 16:33, Gibbs wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been assigned a task (in a couple of weeks) to automate the way our > company backs up its data. > > Currently we have an inhouse server (Ubuntu Server 10.04), 2 computers > (one Windows Vista, one Ubuntu 10.10) and a laptop (Windows Vista again > sigh)... I have no expertise in the field of backups whatsoever but I > manage our nifty little server. We need offsite backups. > > What I was thinking... Sync all computers to the server and then have > the server periodically archive (password protect?) then upload to some > remote location. I have no idea what the remote location will be but I > assume it would be relatively cheap. The computers syncing would > probably make the backup size in the region of 100-200GB? I can't be > sure yet but that's probably a reasonably accurate estimate. > > So. Any advice, solutions or ideas? I've not actually done this myself so YMMV but this is what I intend to use when I need to do this: http://hinterlands.org/wiki/index.php/BackupsWithDuplicityAndS3 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq