You need to be clear about what you mean by backup.  If you are keeping a mirror of your data, rsync is fine.  But sometimes you want a version of a file from 3 months ago.  rsync is not going to do that for you.  The appropriate terms are redundancy and archival and the question you need to ask yourself is which is it you want. Maybe both?

Good luck

Avetisyan, Aram wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have a few desktops running CERN's version of Scientific Linux (SLC 4.8) and would like to automatically backup the data on these via the network all of them are on. Can anyone recommend a good way to do this? I know of rsync and I've found some rather long lists of software online, but I'm not sure which method is best.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- Aram