<div><br></div>I use duplicity. There's a windows version with point and click but it does local/scp/etc. Fulls and incrementals.<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Jim Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 02/25/2012 05:43 PM, John Anderson wrote:<br>
> I have some older relatives who could use a better backup solution for<br>
> their work files. They work from home and mostly use office files, which<br>
> are not huge. Yes they are running windows.<br>
><br>
> So, there are two things I am considering, remote backup to one of the<br>
> many services available, and/or a utility to copy the contents of their<br>
> work folder on the laptop over to a usb hard drive in the background.<br>
><br>
> Any personal experience/recommendations? It ideally should be something<br>
> that I could set up on the laptop and not worry about unless they have a<br>
> crash on the laptop itself. If it takes regular maintenance on their end<br>
> it might not work out.<br>
><br>
> If I have the files on the laptop syncing to a hard drive do I have to<br>
> worry about unfortunate deletions propagating over?<br>
</div>Probably one of the easiest methods is to use Dropbox and a "cron job"<br>
windows equivalent to keep things backed up. Dropbox is free to 2Gb and<br>
they sounds like they'll stay well under that.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Jim.<br>
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