Utilities

• Tape-Oriented Backup
  Tape-Oriented Backup (tob) is a general driver for making and maintaining backups. Given a set of "volume definitions", it creates tar- or afio-based backups and stores them either to a device in /de...
  
• KaTeker
  KaTeker is a backup tool for Linux useful for small companies and private people. It saves data onto hard disk and CDs or other random access media. ...
  
• cdbkup
  Cdbkup is a utility designed to make backups to CD-R(W) media easier. It is designed to work with any backup and restore software that can read from stdin,write to stdout, and can handle linear devic...
  
• BART
  Burt, the backup and recovery tool, is an extension for Tcl/Tk 8.0 designed to perform backups to and recoveries from tapes. A Burt installation consists of the Burt extension module and a set of Tcl...
  
• phpMyBackupPro
  phpMyBackupPro is a Web-based MySQL backup program. It allows you to schedule backups, email them, and upload them using FTP. ...
  
• durep
  durep is a perl script used for disk usage reports. ...
  
• tob
  Tob is a general driver for making and maintaining backups. ...
  
• par2ls
  par2ls lists the packets in par2 files, with varying amounts of detail depending how verbose it is told to be. It also checks the packet MD5 checksum and warns of errors. ...
  
• ftape
  Ftape is a driver program that controls various low-cost tape drives that connect to the floppy controller. Ftape is not a backup program. ...
  
• Tapeback
  Tapeback is a general purpose tape backup and restore utility set that supports modern SCSI based tape drives. The tapeback utility set also includes a kernel patch (should work on both recent 2.4 an...
  
• PPART
  PPART allows you to generate system recovery bootable CD of previously saved hard disks ...
  
• Hydra Backup System
  Hydra is a backup system which contains a backup server and a client. ...
  
• ESR Backup
  ESR Backup is a simple easy to use backup system for UNIX and Linux. It provides a simple, easy to configure solution for file system integrity. It works on an automatic 2 week cycle to assure you ha...
  
• rsyncbackup
  SyncBackup is the Python utility that I wrote to perform automatic backups using the rsync command. ...
  
• NasBackup
  NasBackup an open source backup solution. It is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up MS Windows desktop PCs, laptops and servers to network disks. NasBackup is a highly configur...
  
• Easibox
  Easibox is a utility that automates the creation of archive files, intended to be used for open source projects. ...
  
• ImageBackup
  ImageBackup a fully automatic incremental backup system for digital pictures. It will create backup CDs, one at a time, until all images have been backed up ...
  
• fsbackup
  Fsbackup is an incremental backup creation utility. fsbackup.pl support backup compression and encryption. Backup can be stored on local file system and on remote host stored over SSH or FTP ...
  
• BackBurner
  A collection of PERL scripts that leverage existing parts of the Unix system and allow users to backup and restore verified and compressed images of any mountable file-system, network drive, or even ...
  
• Backups on CD
  BackupOnCd is a set of shell scripts which make gziped multi-volume backups on CD-RW possible. ...
  
• backup by loop
  Loop backup is a bash script for automatic and complete system backups with a large but simple configuration. ...
  
• glastree
  Glastree builds live backup trees, with branches for each day. Users directly browse the past to recover older documents or retrieve lost files ...
  
• bksh
  Bksh is a backup tool to work around backup limitations. The problem was the following: given a secure machine with close to no free disk space, how to proceed with a secure backup without giving a f...
  
• pybackup
  Pybackup is a Python program that performs backups by compression files before creating tar archives, which offers better protection against faulty backup media than compressing the entire archive. ...
  
• BackerUpper
  BackerUpper was designed to be a very simple to setup and maintain backup system. ...