Open Source Linux Backup Software

Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image®. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition).

OpenMediaVault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins. OpenMediaVault is primarily designed to be used in home environments or small home offices, but is not limited to those scenarios. It is a simple and easy to use out-of-the-box solution that will allow everyone to install and administrate a Network Attached Storage without deeper knowledge.

DAR is a command-line backup and archiving tool that uses selective compression (not compressing already compressed files), strong encryption, may split an archive in different files of given size and provides on-fly hashing, supports differential backup with or without binary delta, ftp and sftp protocols to remote cloud storage Archive internal's catalog, allows very quick restoration even a single file from a huge, eventually sliced, compressed, encrypted archive eventually located on a remote cloud storage, by only reading/fetching the necessary data to perform the operation. Dar saves *all* UNIX inode types, takes care of hard links, sparse files as well as Extended Attributes (MacOS X file forks, Linux ACL, SELinux tags, user attributes) and some Filesystem Specific Attributes (Linux ext2/3/4, Mac OS X HFS+) more details at: http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Features.html

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade backup system for backing up Linux, WinXX PCs, Macs and laptops to a server's disk. Features include clever pooling of identical files, no client-side software, and a powerful Apache/CGI user interface.

FOG is a free open-source cloning/imaging solution/rescue suite. FOG can be used to image Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Window 8 PCs using PXE, PartClone, and a Web GUI to tie it together. Includes featues like memory and disk test, disk wipe, av scan & task scheduling.

Webacula - Web Bacula - web interface of a Bacula backup system ( bacula[dot]org )

m23 is a free software distribution system (license: GPL), that installs (via network, starting with partitioning and formatting) and administrates (updates, adds / removes software, adds / removes scripts) clients with Debian, (X/K)Ubuntu and LinuxMint. It is used for deployment of Linux clients in schools, institutions and enterprises. The m23 server is controlled via a web interface. A new m23 client can be installed easily in only three steps. Group functions and mass installation tools make managing a vast number of clients comfortable. The integration of existing clients (with .deb-based distributions) into the system is possible, too. Client backup and server backup are included to avoid data loss. With the integrated virtualisation software, m23 can create and manage virtual m23 clients, that run on real m23 clients or the m23 server. Scripts and software packages (for installation on clients) can be created directly from the m23 web interface.

Utility to help create backups more easily. The idea of the program is that all essential information for creating a backup is in a single file. It can use ‘tar’ for creating archives, has a command line interface, and supports incremental backups.

PAUD is a disk image that contains system utilities, such as fdisk, mc (midnight commander), parted, ntfsresize, and more. PAUD is ideal for rescue/administration purposes and transferring files from one filesystem to another for windows users.

RailsDB is a web application written in Ruby using the Ruby on Rails web framework to provide a generic interface to popular open source databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

RSYNC Backup front-end with Web Interface, email reports with attached summary. Simple to use; back up servers with a single line, or your entire server farm from a single machine. Custom email tags sort responses in your MUA. Supports authentication.

BackupPC4AFS is a version of BackupPC modified to backup OpenAFS volumes to a backup server's local disk or attached RAID. It supports full and multi-level incremental dumps, exponential expiry, and configuration via conf files or a web interface.

Basic Backup is a simple customizable shell script providing system admins an easy way to get basic system files backed up. Use from the moment you startup a new system and archive daily changes through bbackup. Allows you to specify which directories o

Easy encrypted backups over the Internet (a graphical user interface for Box Backup by Ben Summers and contributors)

A useful collection of batch files and scripts for daily purposes (backup, security, system management, etc.) and development

A backup/transfer files program to move and process files between computers in a production (industrial) process. The processing of file begins when it are created or copied to directory and they can be redirected to other machine to be used.

This is a BASH shell script written for LINUX. This script uses the dd command to make mirror images of a drive. It can copy from one drive to another, or can copy the contents of a drive to a file. It uses friendly menus and makes a nice log.

Backup to filesystems or CD R/Ws as a “Jukebox”-like device with Legato NetWorker. The purpose is to use a Jukebox of for instance 10 R/W CD Records instead of a StorageTek SILO, which might be a bitter cheaper for the common user.

Fisy is a simple and lightweight application dedicated to copy and backup files. This application has been designed to perform simple or timestamped copies of directories and files as well as unidirectional synchronization of file tree. Fisy is in command line, you can so start copying tasks at any time or plug them on an automated processing. Sine version 2.0, Fisy contains cipher features for encrypting data for storage in a remote service like the Cloud.

Hardware-ID is a small Linux module providing a program by program assignment of certain hardware specific values. Useful for preparing master hard drives, hardware independend backup/restore and some exotic hardware.

This small perl utility renames all files and all subdirectories from a given startdirectory and downwards in more readable filenames: Only the characters a-z, 0-9, underline, dash, and point are allowed. Multiple spaces and german umlauts will be replace

ROBOCOPY.EXE halts with a "Runtime error R6002" (after a certain # files or dirs). So I decided to write my own version, in Perl. I'm striving to have the output be *identical* to Robocopy's output, so existing scripts will not break.

LRSR / Linux Restore ScRipt is a command line (Bash/Perl) script for restoring system information. LRSR also can be edited to create "Mini" distros from a pre-existing UNIX/Linux computer.

LinImage is an OS imaging system which uses bash scripts and several open source utilities to create a client/server based OS imaging environment.

MyPHPdumpTool is a fully customizable PHP (CLI) based MySQL dumping utility that can be configured via 'crontab' to do scheduled archiving and upload of any MySQL database-dump file to any FTP server.