My recommendation for basic backup needs: rsnapshot. I backup our public server to our internal network as well as my desktop machine to an encrypted portable d

My recommendation for basic backup needs: rsnapshot. I backup our public server to our internal network as well as my desktop machine to an encrypted portable drive using it: http://www.rsnapshot.org/ http://www.rsnapshot.org/ It's probably similar to rdiff-backup, which I haven't used. If you're fine with daily or hourly backups and don't have too much data (<100 GB), rsnapshot together with regular SQL dumps works fine.