Free Linux Tools

Hosting Backup provides a set of scripts for backing up your hosted Web sites.

Baras is an updated version of “SaraB”. It supports the Towers of Hanoi, Grandfather-Father-Son, or any custom backup rotation strategy. Easy to use and highly configurable. Baras utilizes the great backup program, DAR (Disk ARchive).
What’s New in This Release:
· Julio Feferman noticed that the log file was vaporware
Sources mirror 1 (tar.bz2)

DIAP is a set of Bash shell scripts to set up an experimental system using three backup nodes either between sites (e.g. between offices and homes) or over WANs. These could be dedicated to storage or used for existing services.
The goal is to use round robin synchronisation of incremental backup pools, where the source of [...]

Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. In technical terms, it is a network based backup program. Bacula is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many advanced storage management [...]

Black Mirror is an application that syncs and backs up data between one or more computers and external storage devices. With Black Mirror you can easily synchronize your data between two or more computers and back up it on an external storage device at the same time.
If you have two computers which should sync their [...]

Use Q7Z if you want to:
· Update existing archives quickly
· Backup multiple folders to a storage location
· Create or extract protected archives
· Lessen effort by using archiving profiles and lists
Ark (2.6.3) is handy but it doesn’t seem to:
· Create archives with passwords
· Extract (some) archives with passwords
· Update existing archives by default
Q7Z is a simple [...]

Free, Open-source Ghost is a free computer imaging solution that runs on Fedora. FOG is easy to install and easy to use, all management is done via a web UI. FOG uses PXE and Wake on LAN to boot up a very small linux based OS which
is used to image the client computers.
Free, Open-source Ghost [...]

rsback software allows you to backup file trees in rotating archives.
rsback makes rotating backups using the common rsync program and some standard file utilities on Unix-based backup hosts. Its purpose is to mirror certain file trees from a remote host or from the local system and to store them as rotating archives in backup repositories [...]

packet-cd produces a Linux kernel module that provides packet writing support for CD-R/W drives, enabling ordinary read-write mount of CD-ROM drives capable of supporting packet/incremental recording.
What is packet writing?
There are three methods for writing data (or audio) to a CD using a CD recorder: Track-at-Once (TAO), Disc-at-Once (DAO) and Packet Writing. Track-at-Once is, by [...]

Synbak is a wrapper for several existing backup programs suppling to the end user a common method for configuration, and will manage the execution logic of any single backup, and will make a detailed reports.
Moreover, if you are a developer and want contribute, the modular nature of synbak will allow you to easly write new [...]