Cross-Platform Backup Software

[Kareem Shehata]

After reading through the August thread on backup solutions, I've decided to
grab at least 1 external drive and start actually backing up my systems on a
regular basis.  What I'm less certain of, is what software to use.  If it
were just my Debian server, then I'd probably just stick with good old tar
(although some kind of a front-end would be nice), but that's not all there
is.  I've also got an Ubuntu workstation and a Windows Tablet.  This leads
to a number of questions:

1)  What can I use to grab all of that data in a coherent way?

2)  Is it possible to just mount the drive to the server and have all of the
end devices backup to it through the network?

3)  Will it be possible to read the backup format in other tools and OS's?
I'm thinking along the lines of either restoring well down the line (i.e.
several years from the now) and the original software is long lost, or
restoring a file from my tablet using my workstation (say because the HDD
crashed, or simply because the machine is on loan).

Thanks,
 
-kms

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