Hi -- I have a drive that gets a weekly backup of a Windows network stored to it, and I would like to have that backed up in turn remotely.<br>To that end, I have an IP address that I wish to sync it to, and can setup any machine/OS behind it that I want to.<br>
What I was hoping to do was to have the backup drive synced each week, in a manner similar to TimeMachine's, so that after an initial sync, only the changes get sent, but that allows us to access any week's synced backup image if needed (TM lets you browse them amazingly, but as long as it could be done, it wouldn't have to be that posh).<br>
<br>My thoughts so far have been to setup a linux box running rsync to remotely access the backup drive, for the following reasons:<br>1) I beleive that rsync has the functionality I require (though I could be wrong).<br>
2) If our Windows network gets taken out by a virus or something, having the backup be on a different OS would provide extra security.<br>3) I'm more confident in setting this up on a linux machine than a Windows one (though still not exactly cocky about it).<br>
<br>I'd really appreciate any advice that folks could give me on this -- am I wrong in my ideas? would this even work? are there any hideous pitfalls awaiting me? is there a better way to do it? etc.<br><br>Cheers for any & all input,<br>
Doug.<br>