On Windoze machines, I'm running BackUpTime, a low cost utility where you
can schedule copies. I think it will also create a zip copy, though I just
duplicate the whole hard drive as a backup. This is done weekly to a 120
gig USB hard drive. Once a month the drive is swapped with another and
Norton Ghost creates a drive image.

On Linux, I have a cron job that creates a gzipped tar file of each
directory from root (ie, /home, /var, /etc ...). These then go through
Samba to the USB hard drive on the Windoze machine described above. The
cron job also does the backup once a week.

Norton Ghost will also create an image of a Linux file system, but I have
not done that since I'd have to take the machine off line for several
hours. I'd like to have some sort of "bare metal" backup of it, though.

I am looking at doing a USB hard drive RAID array on the linux machine.
That way, the "box" would have only a motherboard and a power supply in
it. Should it fail, it'd be real quick to swap out. The RAID array would
not lose any data on the loss of one drive. I plan on messing around with
this idea this summer when I'll supposedly have more time (no teaching at
night...).

Harold

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