[X-SW] software for cross-platform backup

Craig craig at craigwdesigns.com
Thu Dec 9 15:00:19 PST 2004


On Dec 9, 2004, at 9:38 AM, Patrick Loll wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for some easy-to-use software that will do automated 
> backups over the network from a variety of different platforms (Linux, 
> OS X, and Irix) to an OS X machine with big Firewire disks.  I realize 
> that I could probably accomplish this using some clever mixture of 
> cron and rsync; but I'd prefer to be lazy and use a nice package with 
> a GUI that won't make my head hurt.  Any suggestions are welcome.
>

Hey didn't you post this exact same question a week or two ago? I was 
looking forward to the answers myself.

This time I'm going to suggest perhaps Webmin can do this, and maybe 
someone whose actually used it will reply; I never have & don't know if 
includes this capability.

  - Craig



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