[PLUG] Favorite Backup Systems?

[Tim Wescott]

I'm way bad -- it's been ages since I've backed up my machine, and my 
it's gotten big in there!  I'm backing up now just by copying to CD -- 
but those CD's have gotten awfully small now that customers are sending 
me multiple 100-MB files of data.

Ubuntu has a bunch of backup options; I'd like to choose one that does 
what I need without having so many cool options that I spend a year 
experimenting with all the wrong ways to do it before I hit on the one 
that actually works.

What is your preferred backup system?  I'd like something that supports 
a scheme that lets me do a monthly complete backup with daily 
incrementals.  I'd like to be able to tag certain directories as "don't 
back up".  Something that could backup to a remote disk would be nice, 
but not essential.  Automatic backup, at least for the incrementals, 
would be especially nice, as I'm absent minded. 

Also nice would be something that lets me plug a big USB disk into the 
cruddy old laptop that I'm using as a server (stupid, I know -- I'll 
replace it when it dies).  I'm thinking that one way or another I want 
to use a two- or three-disk backup system, so that if any one of them 
dies I'll be left with a fairly recent image of my computer.

Suggestions?

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Tim Wescott
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