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Backup tools and suites

• amanda-server - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Server)

• backup-manager - Command-line backup tool for GNU Linux

• backup2l - Low-maintenance and robust command line backup/restore tool with multiple drivers for standard backup-tools like tar and afio

• BackupPC backuppc - backup daemon with a web interface. Uses SSH to remotely back up computers over the network. Can use smb, rsync and Tar. Does full and incremental backups.

• backupninja - Lightweight, extensible meta-backup system

• bacula-server - Network backup, recovery and verification - server meta-package

• Borg:

  • borgbackup - very fast and deduplicating backup system with optional compression and authenticated backup

  • borgmatic - automatic creation, pruning, and verification of Borg backups with rich support for various monitoring, alerting, and notification solutions

  • vorta

• burp - Simple cross-platform network ?BackUp and Restore Program

• Duplicity

  • Duplicity - Remote automatic encrypted incremental backups

  • deja-dup - Simple backup tool with GUI. Uses Duplicity as the backend

• fsarchiver - Save the contents of a file system to a compressed archive file (It's still under heavy development so it should not be used for critical data.)

• rdiff-backup - remote incremental backup

• restic - backup program with multiple revisions, encryption and more

• Rsync:

  • rsync - Fast remote file copy program (like rcp)

  • Back In Time - Comfortable GUI for incremental (rsync) backups to save storage space

  • luckybackup - GUI, backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories using rsync

• rsnapshot - Local and remote filesystem snapshot utility

• timeshift - is a program used to make system back-ups/snapshots easily.

• Tar - Using the tape archiver

• Unison - A file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

User Examples

• Using dd to create segmented disk images

• partclone - using partclone to clone a system

Application Specific

EvolutionBackup - Backup your Evolution data

Tape Backup

Enterprise Tape backup can be performed with packages like Amanda or Bacula or similar.

The Linux tape system can be configured using the program stinit from the package mt-st. Stinit reads the configuration file /etc/stinit.def. The tape is then normally addressed as /dev/st0 for the 1st device and /dev/st1 for the second device and so on. The tape can also be addressed in a non rewinding mode normally by addressing the device as /dev/nst0 or /dev/nst1 etc.

External links

• Backing up a Debian system - debian-devel (2002)

• Backup FAQ

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