Open Source Backup Software

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

PSSC stands for PHP Sysadmin Script Collection. It's a collection of PHP scripts for sysadmins, from very simple commands to more advanced backup scripts. It provides some common functions and logging.

Perl Backup Machine is a backup utility that creates incremental backups of files and directories to a local or networked folder. Perl Backup Machine allows to restore the whole saved file to their original place or to another directory.

Log viewing system that enables the remote monitoring of many metalog servers through mysql server(s).

UberImaging centrally controls the disk imaging process of many nodes on a network. Clients booted via PXE are served a small initrd image containing udpcast, a client module, and other tools allowing clients to be remotely controlled by a portable GUI.

arclog archives the log files monthly. It supports Apache access log, Syslog, NTP, Apache 1 SSL engine log, modified ISO date/time log file formats, and Apache-like logs like CUPS, ProFTPD, Pure-FTPd… etc., and gzip and bzip2 compression methods.

A Nagios plugin for monitoring BackupPC.

dumpnet is a collection of bash scripts that allows you to backup multiple servers simultaneously. You can do incremental file system dumps with tar, dump and rsync, backup databases and much more. AIDE can also easily be integrated.

PDBS. Sistema capaz de realizar backups (full e incrementales) de manera segura, economica y confiable. PDBS puede realizar backups de servidores remotos de manera desatendida sin necesidad de hacer configuraciones en servidores remotos, y sin necesidad d

Manage SQLite databases with this PHP-powered software program.

Redoubt: (1) a protected place of refuge or defense; (2) a secure system for distributed offsite backups, client data is compressed, encrypted, and then pushed to "somewhat trusted" offsite servers

TunnelTools is a set of perl scripts to allow anonymous rsync and CVS access from machines inside a firewall by tunneling over an ssh connection to a host outside the firewall.