[ale] [OT] Best remote/local backup for less technical?

[Cameron Kilgore]

Does Mozy or Duplicity work on Linux, and are they incremental?

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On Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Stephen Haywood wrote:

> I use Mozy home edition from EMC. It works great and it's relatively inexpensive. I pay $9.99 a month for 125GB of backup. I think they have smaller plans as well. As far as ease of use. I set it up on my Mac and I just let it run. Every so often I log into the web site and make sure my files are there and I try to download a copy to test the restore. 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:43 PM, John Anderson <j at intte.com (mailto:j at intte.com)> wrote:
> > I have some older relatives who could use a better backup solution for
> > their work files. They work from home and mostly use office files, which
> > are not huge. Yes they are running windows.
> > 
> > So, there are two things I am considering, remote backup to one of the
> > many services available, and/or a utility to copy the contents of their
> > work folder on the laptop over to a usb hard drive in the background.
> > 
> > Any personal experience/recommendations? It ideally should be something
> > that I could set up on the laptop and not worry about unless they have a
> > crash on the laptop itself. If it takes regular maintenance on their end
> > it might not work out.
> > 
> > If I have the files on the laptop syncing to a hard drive do I have to
> > worry about unfortunate deletions propagating over?
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