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[coraa]

The boy and I recently got a shiny new USB hard drive for purposes of backing up our fileserver computer. Hurrah! (I had already been backing up vital documents to an offsite location, but that wasn't really feasible for things like 100 GB of mp3 files.)

So I'm looking for an automated backup solution that will sync the fileserver hard drive to the backup hard drive on a regular basis -- nightly seems about right. Automated because if I have to do it manually it's going to happen less frequently than would be ideal. Nightly so that it can happen while we're in bed and not clobber the network. (The fileserver computer remains on all the time, so that's not an issue.) Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there a tool in Windows XP that I can use to set this up?

Free is great. Cheap is fine, if a little money will net me a vastly better tool. Pricey is probably more than I need.

Any ideas?

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[catbird.livejournal.com]

We use CrashPlan (free). It has a stupid easy GUI and encryption. Also has this neat P2P feature but sounds like you aren't interested in that.

[2gouda4u.livejournal.com]

Don't suppose you're around? Geoff and I are at Dirk's, wondering if we could give you the key for tomorrow's feeding. Call Geoff's cell if so. Thanks!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Done! Thanks.