I started to setup rsync on my machine which really wasn't that hard and seemed like it was going to work well. That was until I remembered the time I stored my files on a hard drive that was formatted NTFS. I lost all of my permissions and had some very strange behavior. Unfortunately the only machine that I have with enough space to store my backup (about 10 gigs) is a windows machine. An rsync server is easy to setup thanks to DeltaCopy. From what I understand you might be able to keep those permissions if the server is running under cygwin, but I really didn't want to go through the trouble.

My next idea was to use dar, my previous backup solution, and use rsync to syncronize the archives to a server. This seemed like a good idea at first and the diff backups were very fast. The problem is that I telecommute using a 6 gig Vmware Windows XP image. Everytime 1 byte is changed the whole thing is archived again. This makes for a very long backup process. Back to the drawing board. :)

Probably the best thing is to get an rsync server setup on a linux machine. I have one set-up that I need to enablea 40 gig drive and I should be in business.