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Terabytes of backup storage...and still the mess persists

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If you are using a Mac have

If you are using a Mac have a look at
http://www.drobo.com/Products/Time_Machine.html
I think it has it all except the web server.
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Thomas, Thanks for the

Thomas,
Thanks for the pointer. I plan to get my first Mac since, oh lemme see...1984 soon. It won't be my main machine but will allow me to keep up with things a bit better and give me a chance to play with Time Machine.
Sean
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Surely you've come across

Surely you've come across rdiff-backup? Does most of what you want, if you don't mind the commandline interface.

http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
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You are seeing the backup

You are seeing the backup problem in much the same way I do these days: you need to backup a large data set, keeping old versions of files online and accessible for a long period of time and want to use NAS devices as a cost effective storage media. Traditional systems just are not addressing this view so for my needs I wrote ArcvBack (see arcvback.com).
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Stephen, Thanks for the

Stephen,
Thanks for the pointer. I'll take a look.
Sean
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Sounds like you want

Sounds like you want Subversion with a distributed filesystem as a backend. Google, I think, did something similar for Google code. I'm not sure if there is an Open Source implementation yet...
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David, What I would really

David,

What I would really like is a storage layer that does what SVN does without requiring any use of special commands by me or by the apps I use. A WebDav layer on top of SVN comes close... I hope WebDav - or something similar - really takes off because a side-effect of the level of indirection it entails is that all sorts of clever transparent backup magic can happen.

Sean
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