Utilities

• Flashback
  Ever lost a day's worth of editing on Unix by fat-fingering something like "rm * .o"? Flashback makes a gzipped tar snapshot of the directory you're working in (and any subdirectories) to a common ba...
  
• tresor
  Tresor is full backup and fast restores - flexible configuration - db for multiple volumes - grafical user interface using Xdialog. ...
  
• dbackup
  dbackup is a disk-based client-server backup system for Linux or other UNIX systems. It works on the principal that disks are cheaper and more reliable than tapes. ...
  
• Archive
  Archive is a fully drag-and-drop multi-format archiver. Drag a directory onto it to create an archive. Drag an archive onto it to extract to a directory. It can also compress and decompress streams (...
  
• StoreBackup
  StoreBackup is a backup utility that stores files on other disks. It includes several optimizations that reduce the disk space needed and improve performance, and unifies the advantages of traditiona...
  
• hdup
  hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (with mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host or re...
  
• amanda
  Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single ...
  
• afbackup
  afbackup is a client-server backup system allowing many workstations to backup to a central server (simultaneously or serially). Backups can be started remotely from the server or via cron jobs on th...
  
• Sitback
  Sitback is a backup tool that can run scheduled backups on a file/internet server, or single backup operations from the console or X. It can use any available file-like device (mag. tapes with ftape,...
  
• BackupSW
  BackupSW a practical backup solution for personal computers. It is designed for easy recovery of files, it does not use any special devices or proprietary file formats. BackupSW is a multi-platform a...
  
• BackupOnCd
  BackupOnCd a set of shell scripts which make gziped multi-volume backups on CD-RW possible. It also makes the backup faster using cdrecord in a parallel subshell and minimizes the amount of temporary...
  
• rdiff-backup-web
  rdiff-backup-web is a PHP-based front-end to simplify the scheduling and restoring of backups using rdiff-backup. ...
  
• dvbackup
  A small utility for creating backups on DV tapes. ...
  
• cpio
  cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe ...
  
• Better Backup
  Better Backup is a backup manager designed to handle large volumes of data at high speed. It is extremely fast and flexible. The system is designed to back up to magnetic tape, CD-R, or DVD-R, or alm...
  
• rsync-bc
  rsync-bc (rsync backup client) is a stripped-down version of rsync. The idea behind rsync-bc is to provide a simple client that only supports sending data. Receiving, local file transfers, and daemon...
  
• Simplebackup
  This program is backup software, you can use it to build simple backup's of directories. It reads a configuration file, one per backup directory, then it builds a compressed file from the director...
  
• pdumpfs
  pdumpfs is a simple daily backup system similar to Plan9's dumpfs which preserves every daily snapshot. pdumpfs is written in Ruby. ...
  
• Backup Manager
  Backup Manager is a command line backup tool for GNU/Linux, designed to help you make daily archives of your file system. ...
  
• Backuper
  CD-R/DVD-R backup application ...
  
• bdmn
  bdmn is client/server-oriented backup system. The daemon runs on the machine being backed up, and the client runs on the machine that stores the backup. It is very simple, but very fast. ...
  
• Duplicity
  Duplicity backs directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses librsync, the incremental archives are space efficien...
  
• backmeup
  backmeup is an easy-to-use curses backup script. It uses the simple concept of "backup destinations" (where files are backed up to) and "backup sources" (where files for backing up reside) which may ...
  
• histbackup
  histbackup makes incremental backups of a directory tree in a set of directories named by dates, or date-time if the date already exists. The new backup is prepopulated by hardlinks of each file from...
  
• FileBunker
  FileBunker a file backup application which uses one or more GMail accounts as its backup repository. Because each GMail account supplies 1000 megabytes of storage, it serves as an excellent facility ...