I'm running SuSE 8.2 Pro with Shorewall on several machines in 4 different physical locations. I want to be able to admin from one location and backup a certain directory from two separate locations to a dedicated harddrive in a third location. They are all hooked into broadband. I have accounts with dyndns.org for each location. I have established ssh communications between the locations. Each location has people who only know how to push a button so I need to automate the backup as much as possible. In each of two locations I have two windows boxes which will connecting to a Linux box which is the router/firewall, etc connected to the net. The windows machines contains the one directory which needs to be backed up. I figure Samba/LinNeighborhood could be used for that. Or I can also do some sort of win ssh/sftp. So my question to all the gurus out there is which method would you suggest to implement the automatic backup via Internet? My thought is to use a script to login via ssh then do an sftp of the one directory I need to backup. The script to be executed as a daily chron job. Is this to simplistic? Is there an easier way to do it? Should I do some kind of GUI so the operators will have a way to do the backup manually? As far as the admin is concerned I think I will setup for VNC client from my machine. Any suggestions? And yes I have been reading all TFMs I can find on ssh. vnc, and vpn, hence my seeking sage advice. I'm sure someone else has already gone through this exercise and can tell me how to avoid the pitfalls. All answers will be considered except for those which tell me what I should do to myself. TIA Richard