Which backup solution would you recommend?

[Geoffrey Lane]

I am running latest xubuntu v7.10, and looking for a way to backup my 
settings, logs, user profile.
I would love to have a gui and command line "version", but need 
something that I can include and
exclude files/folders and wildcards (eg. *.jpg). Something fairly easy 
to setup and will backup to a file
format I can use between clients and os (eg. tar, zip, 7z). Would also 
be nice if it would upload to shell,
ftp site, of smb and schedule-able

can someone please make a recommendation?
Thanks for your time,
Geo