There are lots of commercial services that provide an application for your workstation and that enables backup and restore to a web-site server.
QUESTION: Does anyone know of package(s) that would let me roll-my-own for a {very} small intra-net.

It would be nice if things worked for both a local LAN server as well as a hosted, remote server.

Thanks,
~~~ 0;-Dan

Dan,

If you are just looking for backup and restore capabilities, try rsync. This is an excellent tool that allows you to "mirror" files and directories even over a slow WAN connection very efficiently. If my understanding of it is correct it uses a diff at the bit level when it transfers data over the wire. So it doesn't transfer entire files that you've changed; it just transfers the changes to the file...meaning much less data is sent over the wire. I'm don't fully understand the algorithm, I just know it works quite well.

If you are using Linux client-side, there are a number of graphical tools available to help you get it working. Just query the repository for rsync.

Best,

Micheal

I'm looking for a roll-your-own, FOSS rendition of Carbonite(tm) or similar hierarchical storage management (HSM) utilities.

• Minimal end-user knowledge and skills required.
• Mostly automatic backup from local workstation to network server;
• Browser interface for configuration and administration;
• Browser interface for file recovery
• securely Save files here; recover or retrieve files over there
• Server processes for archive configuration, administration, and management

A Google(tm) search for HSM yields a lot of commercial and "enterprise" solutions. I'm need to work with fewer than ten folks.

I'm working with rsync until I find or create better.

~~~ 0;-Dan

If you want bells & whistles, try Amanda. Very reliable, free, scalable.
http://www.zmanda.com/quick-backup-setup.html