What the E!

Very interesting tool for possible recovery of laptops that are stolen with almost no cost.

I will have to install and test it out, but it looks pretty interesting.

Adeona: A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops

Background/Overview

I have been interested in using rsync and hard links to backup my computer system for a long time. Something very similar to Mike Rubel’s idea. I dabbled here and there for a long time, but never finished putting something together. Well I finally got it done. I used a number of different sites for help and even a couple posts to the Rsnapshot website.

The backup was for both my personal storage sites and for my church. The requirements were such:

1. Ability to backup systems located on a remote network over a non secure network
2. Automatic backup that requires no interaction/reminders from the user accept to leave the computer powered on!
3. Provide the ability to recover files that have changed over a long period of time (upwards of 12 months)
4. Minimize the amount of storage space needed to store files.
5. I would really like to have a push model from the client

A number of open source/very inexpensive software exists, but I ran into a few issues. All of the solutions that I looked at had one major issue, inability to operate over a remote network or they didn’t have a client for windows. If someone has a suggestion of something that might work please let me know.
I broke the solution down into 3 parts.

1. Server
2. Client
3. Connection and Automation

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