FREE SOFTWARE DIRECTORY

Backup

Projects within Backup

• Afio

  - Cpio-compatible archive/backup program

• Amanda

  - Backs up multiple hosts to a single drive

• Archive

  - Drag-and-drop multi-format archiver

• Archmbox

  - Email archiver

• Atool

  - Script for managing file archives

• Backup Manager

  - A Program to automate system backups

• Backup Shell

  - Shell for ssh

• Backup2l

  - Manages backups

• Backuper

  - Makes backups on CDs or DVDs

• Backuppc

  - Backs up files to a server

• Bloat

  - Analyses and extracts an archive's filename

• CacheIt

  - PHP class to facilitate caching

• Cedar Backup

  - Backs up files on local and remote hosts to CD-R or CD-RW media

• Cpio

  - Archiver that handles various types of cpio and tar archives

• DACT

  - Compresses files dynamically

• DIAP

  - Distributed Internet Archiving Protocol

• DIBS

  - Backup system

• DirSync

  - A directory synchronizer.

• DirSync

  - Directory synchronizer

• Dump/Restore

  - The 'dump' and 'restore' functions

• DupeFinder

  - Finds, moves, renames, and deletes duplicate files

• Duplicity

  - Incremental backup tool

• EMirror

  - Ftp mirror script

• Fileprune

  - Automates file deletion

• Filewatcher

  - Maintains a local file archive repository

• Flexbackup

  - Backup tool for both local and remote files

• GMail Archiver

  - Archives to a GMail account

• GNOME Schedule

  - A system schedule maintenance tool.

• GNU tar

  - Creates tar archives

• GPRename

  - GUI batch file renamer

• Gfslicer

  - Splits and joins files for removable media

• Ghost for Linux

  - A hard disk and partition imaging/cloning tool using compression and FTP.

• Gnochive

  - GUI frontend for multiple archivers

• Grsync

  - A GTK GUI for rsync

• Gzip_x86

  - 'gzip' distribution tuned for faster decompressing

• Hdup

  - Filesystem backup tool

• ImageBackup

  - Backup system for digital images

• Info-ZIP- UnZip branch

  - Collection of archiving and compression tools

• Karchiver

  - KDE utility for working with compressed files

• LZMA Utils

  - gzip-like tool with a zlib-like library

• LZO

  - Lossless data compression library

• LZPX

  - LZPX is a fast and powerful file compressor.

• LinuxLive

  - Set of scripts for creating a live CD

• MTX

  - Controls tape drives and autoloaders

• MagicRescue

  - Scans for and extracts certain files types

• Mirmon

  - Monitors mirrors

• Mondo Rescue

  - Disaster recovery suite

• MultiCD

  - Backs up a large number of files to multiple CDs

• Nomarch

  - Extracts files from the old .arc archive format

• PHP Backup Maker

  - Backup utility

• POT

  - Transparently persists almost any object tree

• Paludis

  - A package management library and client that works with Gentoo style ebuilds.

• Parchive

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• Paxutils

  - Tool to manage file archives

• PeaZip

  - Free archiving application, archive/extract: 001 (raw file split/join), 7z, 7zip sfx, Bzip2, Gzip, Pea, Tar, Z, Zip.

• RVM

  - Manages backups of multiple clients across multiple partitions

• Rdiff-backup

  - Backs up one directory to another

• Recovery Is Possible

  - CD or floppy boot/rescue/backup system

• Relax and Recover

  - A disaster recovery framework.

• Rsync Vault Manager

  - Automated multiple client backup manager

• S tar

  - Very fast tar archiver

• SPA

  - Archiving tool for Web pages

• Snapshot

  - Scripts for maintaining a repository of directory snapshots

• Ssync

  - Filesystem synchronization utility

• Stitch

  - Backup utility

• Tapeback

  - Backup system

• Taper

  - Backup application

• Tart

  - Backup utility

• TkDVD

  - GUI for growisofs (part of dvd+rw-tools)

• USBSink

  - A GNOME program for file synchronization over USB.

• Wipe

  - Secure file wiping utility

• Yakup

  - A tool for managing multi-level backups to fixed disk and removable CD/DVD media.

• Yard

  - Scripts for creating rescue disks

• Z

  - Frontend for compression utilities

• Zdisk

  - Creates a boot/rescue floppy or CD

• bacula

  - Backup management programs

• bar

  - User backup utility

• ccollect

  - An incremental full backup solution.

• chpox

  - Tool for transparent checkpointing and restarting of processes

• confstore

  - Configuration backup utility

• core-restart

  - Checkpointing and restarting system

• dar

  - Makes a backup of a directory tree and files

• ddrescue

  - Data recovery tool

• dkop

  - Copy (back-up) disk files to DVD. Full or incremental backup and media verification. Full or selective file restore. Gnome GUI interface.

• dobackup.pl

  - Automates unattended incremental backups of multiple servers

• dtrx

  - Intelligently extract many archive types

• dvdisaster

  - Helps recover unreadable sections on damaged disks

• e

  - "is a command line utility that extracts lots of different archives.

• ext2hide

  - A way to store files in the ext2 superblock free space.

• g4u

  - Lets users clone hard disks by using FTP

• glastree

  - Builds live backup trees with branches for each day

• gzip

  - Compresses and decompresses files

• iBackup

  - Automates backups

• kBag

  - Synchronizes your documents between one computer and another.

• konserve

  - Backup application for KDE 3

• libzip

  - Library for manipulating zip archives

• litetrash

  - Light-weight, portable trash can

• mar

  - Stores meta and user data in a single file

• mar7

  - mar7 is losless compression routine

• midget

  - A small SMB-share based backup script for environments without administrators.

• myrescue

  - Rescues still-readable data from a damaged hard-disk

• offmirror

  - Offline mirroring tool

• pcopy

  - Tool for large disk to disk copying

• pdumpfs

  - Simple daily backup system

• phpMyBackupPro

  - An OS-independent, easy-to-use MySQL backup tool.

• phpMyBackupPro

  - MySQL backup program

• rfs

  - Creates and updates a local spare system disk

• rottlog

  - Replacement for Red Hat's 'logrotate.'

• rsnapshot

  - Makes periodic snapshots of local machines and remote machines

• rsync-incr

  - Performs automated, unattended, incremental, disk to disk backups

• rsyncbackup

  - Schedules backups using rsync

• rubyzip

  - Ruby module for reading and writing zip files

• scdbackup

  - Simplified CD/DVD backup program

• sdd

  - Replacement for 'dd'

• sign

  - File signing and signature verification utility

• simplebackup

  - Cross-platform backup program

• storebackup

  - Disk to disk backup tool

• syrep

  - Generic file repository synchronization tool

• t337

  - fast binary compression

• xfs

  - Journaling filesystem

• xorriso

  - maps file objects