I'm not a windows guy by any stretch. What I thought would work nearly has but I've run into a hiccup so large that I'm thinking I should just rethink the whole approach entirely. Make things more simple. And I guess before I invest in some spaghetti patching together windows, linux, cygwin, I suppose I might as well ask some people who do Windows how they get this kind of thing done. I'll tell you what I've done for now. I have a local linux server with good up time that I've stuck a very large external drive to. I first started working in windows as the client but after some trouble switched over to linux for proof of concept and it worked. I'm using bup to do backups but I've replaced the .bup directory with a symlink to a folder inside of an sshfs mount which on the server is a symlink to a folder on the external drive. I'm able to do an incremental backup this way completely fine. Now on windows bup doesn't like to run on windows so people suggest using cygwin. Great. It's already installed on one desktop. I also used winfsp and sshfs-win to map a network drive to Z:\. It's working well as a file share. I'm able to navigate to it from cygwin and manipulate files just fine. But if I run bup init with a symbolic link going to a folder in the Z: drive it says permission denied. If I do bup init without that symbolic link and copy it over and link it, that seems to be ok but then bup save just fails silently. I don't know that I'm asking for help figuring out bup cygwin and sshfs on windows. I guess I'm really asking for a fresh perspective on what software you would use. I'm more of a linux person meaning jerry-rigging something on the linux side to fit what's on windows is easier for me and I'd prefer to do that than have the jerry-rigging done on the windows side. I'm curious what you guys like using on windows.