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In this section you will find tools to help you with backing up your Linux box.
afbackup
- Version: Stable 3.2.4
- Byte Size: 462.9 KB / 470.8 KB
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: March 17th, 2000
- Home Page: ftp://www.zn.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/linux/
- Description: afbackup is a client-server backup system offering several workstations a centralized backup to a
special backup server. The backup on the clients can be started automatically using cron-jobs on the clients, but the more intelligent solution is to start it remotely from a central administrative host. Any streaming device can be used for writing the data to it.
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Afio
- Version: Stable 2.4.6
- Byte Size: 86.3 KB (88,412 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: November 25, 1999
- Binary: RPM
Alpha
Source
- Description: Archiver & backup program with builtin compression
Afio makes cpio-format archives. Afio can make compressed archives
that are much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives. Afio is
best used as an `archive engine' in a backup script.
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AMANDA
- Version: Stable 2.4.1p1
- Byte Size: 693.0 KB (709,624 bytes)
- License: Distributable, see homepage for details.
- Revision Date: November 11, 1998
- Home Page: http://www.amanda.org
- Binary: RPM
Sparc
Alpha
Source
- Description: 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 large capacity tape drive. AMANDA uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Newer versions of AMANDA (including this version) can use SAMBA to back up Microsoft Windows 95/NT hosts.
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apcupsd
- Version: Stable 3.6.2 / Development 3.7.0 Beta 3
- Byte Size: 276.0 KB / 531.8 KB
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: August 11, 1999 / January 11, 2000
- Home Page: http://www.brisse.dk/site/apcupsd/
- Binary: RPM, Debian
Source
- Description: UPS power management under Linux for APCC Products. BackUPS, BackUPS Pro, SmartUPS V/S, and SmartUPS(NET/RM) success.
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Arkeia
- Version: Stable 4.2.3 Server
- Byte Size: 2.4 MB (2,564,242 bytes)
- License: Shareware
- Revision Date: February 26, 2000
- Home Page: http://www.knox-software.com/downloadfree.html
- Binary: RPM / GUI RPM, glibc
/ Client RPM, glibc
- Note: Also available: Command Line Client RPM
- Description: Arkeia is the solution for automated backup/archiving and restoration on UNIX and Windows NT networks. Arkeia utilizes an exclusive multi-flow technology to deliver speeds that are 200 to 300% faster than rival software packages.
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AutoRPM
- Version: Stable 1.9.8.4
- Byte Size: 50.4 KB (51,605 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: January 21th, 2000
- Home Page: http://www.kaybee.org/~kirk/html/linux.html
- Binary: Source
PPC
Noarch
Sparc
- Description: The AutoRPM program can mirror RPMs from an FTP site, keep installed RPMs consistent with an FTP site or local directory, and keep installed RPMs in a cluster or network of systems consistent. AutoRPM is designed to be highly flexible and provides a useful menu-driven Interactive-Install mode.
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Backup Copy
- Version: Stable 2.0
- Byte Size: 33.7 KB (34,507 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: November 17, 1998
- Home Page: http://pep.netnation.com/cpbk/
- Binary: Debian
- Description: This program provides many features for local
backups including incremental backups, a trash bin option for deleted files during backups, permission and owner saving, directory exclusion, and much more.
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CD Backup
- Version: Stable 1.1
- Byte Size: 10.6 KB (10,855 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: August 18, 1999
- Home Page: http://cdbackup.home.dhs.org/
- Description: CD Backup uses Backburner (has a modified
version included) to record on CDs. It makes a list of files and locations, and individually tars and gzips each file. This is useful because it allows you to specify a filename, and just extract that file. If you were to use just tar and Backburner, it would take a very long time to reach the one file at the end of the stream. This program is written in perl.
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cpio
- Version: Stable 2.4.2
- Byte Size: 180.9 KB (185,281 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: October 1st, 1998
- Home Page: http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/cpio.html
- Binary: RPM, Debian, PPC
Sparc
Alpha
Mips
Mipseb
- Description: cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive, which is a file that contains other files plus information about them, such as their file name, owner, timestamps, and access permissions. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe. cpio has three operating modes.
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Dump
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FlexBackup
- Version: Stable 0.9.8
- Byte Size: 33.8 KB (34,630 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: November 13, 1999
- Home Page: http://members.home.net/edwinh/flexbackup
- Binary: Source
Noarch
- Description: Flexible backup script.
Features:
o Easy to configure
o Uses dump, afio, tar, or cpio with the flick of a switch
o Backup, extract, compare, list modes
o Full (0) and 1-9 levels of incremental backup
o Filesystem-oriented (won't traverse devices)
o Does remote filesystems (over rsh/ssh; no special service)
o Works with IDE/SCSI tapes on Linux/FreeBSD
or Linux ftape (allows table of contents support)
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KBackup
- Version: Stable 1.2.11
- Byte Size: 105.1 KB (107,610 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: December 1, 1997
- Home Page: http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk/~karsten/KBackup/
- Binary: RPM
Source
- Description: KBackup is intended for handling backups no matter whether they reside on disk or tape or even in files. Other backup programs available today are confusing the user with lots of long command line options or it is user friendly but not powerful at all. The aim behind writing KBACKUP was to provide a user friendly yet powerful backup program.
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Mondo
- Version: Stable 0.88
- Byte Size: 1.3 MB (1,351,680 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: March 21th, 2000
- Home Page: http://www.angelfire.com/tn2/hugo/
- Description: Mondo Rescue is a set of utilities which will archive a Linux or LinWin
installation to CD ISOs (to be written to CD-Rs). These bootable 'rescue CDs'
can then be used to restore the whole system in the event of catastrophic data
loss.
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Recover
- Version: Stable 0.9
- Byte Size: 16.4 KB (16,819 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: January 18, 2000
- Home Page: http://users.linuxbox.com/~recover/index.html
- Binary: Mandrake
- Description: recover automates some steps as described in the Ext2fs-Undeletion-howto in order to recover a lost file. This utility will greatly increase your file
recover rate. People who do not know how to undelete a file are encouraged to use this utility.
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scdbackup
- Version: Stable 0.6
- Byte Size: 658.8 KB (674,585 bytes)
- License: OpenSource
- Revision Date: February 9, 2000
- Home Page: http://scdbackup.linuxbox.com
- Description: Simplified CD Backup for Linux
Backups large amounts of data on one or more CDs.
No special tool is needed for reading the backup
because mkisofs (ISO9660) or afio are used.
Since scdbackup can write more than one CD there is
an information script stored on each CD which
tells where a certain file may be found.
A collision test is performed to avoid aborting
of mkisofs.
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Taper
- Version: Stable 6.9a
- Byte Size: 308.0 KB (315,428 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: May 26th, 1998
- Home Page: http://www.omen.net.au/~yusuf/
- Binary: Alpha
Sparc
PPC
RPM
Mipseb
- Description: Taper is a tape drive backup and restoration program that provides a friendly user interface.
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UNiBACK
- Version: Stable 3.0
- Byte Size: 11.4 MB (11,939,700 bytes)
- License: Commercial Demo
- Revision Date: October 31, 1999
- Evaluation Period: 45 Days
- Home Page: http://www.orbitsw.com/USA/uni_linux.html
- Note: In RPM only, for RedHat 5.2 or above.
- Description: The Linux version of UNiBACK, with Parallel store and incremental backup procedures to increase backup speeds and reduce network
traffic. Choose from Windows, Java, Motif or Curses interfaces (or command-line) for familiar and
quick navigation. A powerful scheduling facility automates UNiBACK's backup management, conditional
execution, multi-threaded execution and more.
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Yard
- Version: Stable 1.18
- Byte Size: 165.3 KB (169,269 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: February 9, 2000
- Home Page: http://www.croftj.net/~fawcett/yard/
- Binary: Debian
- Description: Yard is a suite of Perl scripts for creating rescue disks for Linux. A rescue disk is a self-contained Linux kernel and filesystem on a floppy, usually used when you can't (or don't want to) boot off your hard disk. A rescue disk usually contains utilities for diagnosing and manipulating hard disks and filesystems.
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