I've really been using CrashPlan (www.crashplan.com) for backup. I've got CrashPlan Plus on my main computers (wifes MacBook and my MacBook Pro) and a Windows PC with lots of internal storage. The Macs backup to the Windows PC and to CrashPlan Centeral. I've played with the Linux CrashPlan client a bit in hopes of switching out the Windows PC as the "backup server" but ran out of time. My first impression was that it seemed aimed more at Linux Desktop/GUI users rather than Linux CLI users. The free version of CrashPlan will let you backup to an external hard drive as well as other computers running CrashPlan. So for free you can backup to your friends computer over the internet. While I have upgraded to CrashPlan Plus and subscribed to the CrashPlan Centeral service, I've setup my family with the free version of CrashPlan and I have them backup to my Windows PC over the internet. Works great, even for my Dad who just uses a Verision Wireless Brodband card for his Internet access. To make sure he didn't go over Version's 5 GB cap we backed up his computer to a USB hard drive, and then I moved the backup files from the USB drive to my backup machine. Worked great and now the CrashPlan client only has to send updates to the remote backup. Another nice "feature" is that Code 42 Software (CrashPlan's Developers) are based in Minnesota. http://b3.crashplan.com/consumer/about.html -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us IT Outhouse Blog Thing | http://www.itouthouse.com