I'm once again painfully aware of the need to back up data. This is something I've traditionally handled in a manual fashion, but I know I'm not as diligent as I should be in that regard.

Something like a photo archive is not too difficult to do manually for me - I can just do a complete copy of my entire artwork directory tree each time. PITA but simple (running a checksum would probably be a good idea).

But for taking care of misc. files that get created or added to, day to day, on my Mac notebook, I'd really like something automatic.

What I'd really like is this: Something that would monitor a defined series of folders and while I'm connected to my network, automatically copy anything I save into those folders to a mirrored backup folder on the network. The network will be a Windows volume (I don't plan on using another Mac at home).

If not something automatic, then something I can run on a schedule to do an incremental backup. It would only copy the differences at prescribed times or manually. One way.

Any recommendations on Windows software to do the same would be great (for taking care of that digital photo scenario above )

For the Mac notebook I really need network functionality, but for the Windows software I can try something that works with local (firewire) volumes. Though network capacity would also be ideal here.

Bruno