Greetings, On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Thanks a million for that! > You would want to format the drive with a linux filesystem, though. > Now, that is a typical dilemma that any sysadmin (a lowly and not so respected Job in India), and I can't do that that is a constraint as this external HDD is supposed to be connected for recovery on a (horror of horrors! - winx node in case the centos node fails -- nevermind the neat li'l tar format -- coz everybody in this scenario is afraid of Centos. Well gimme a week. I have at least one Centos box [the elephant in the china shop] to fight with and turn them around :) ) With warm regards and best wishes, Rajagopal