Backup, locally and offsite

[mantis]

Hi,

Im looking at backing up a few computers onto a server, keeping it stored there and then being able to send it off to a server at an offsite location.

There are 3 computers, 2 linux and one Windows, what would be the best way to automate the backup on all the computers to the server and then either compress the files into their seperate archives and send them off or rsync them to the offsite server.

I have looked at backuppc, but I was wondering if anyone else had any other ideas?

[biznatch]

I'm working on the same thing. My ultimate solution is going to be using tar over ssh for the Linux boxes and using smbtar (from Samba) to backup the Windoze systems. Writing my own scripts is the only way I found to ensure maximum control and reliability.

Here are some links if you want more info...

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-backup/?ca=dgr-lnxw07Backup

http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/smbtar.1.html
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