On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote: > 3. Is Amanda really a good choice or an overkill in this scenario, > given that this is a small s/w development shop where linux expertise > is *not* available? > 4. Is there an alternate simpler automatic network backup? (Bacula too > seems overkill) Look at backuppc. It has a nice web interface to manage it and browse/restore backups and it compresses and pools identical content to hold much more online than you would expect. It is all controlled from the linux side and can work with windows either over smb or you can install cygwin rsync to save bandwidth. You would want to format the drive with a linux filesystem, though. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com