Backup tools
Available for Debian Linux and Other Linux Distributions
afbackup
Client-Server Backup System (Server side)
This is a client-server backup system offering several
workstations a centralized backup to a special backup server.
Backing up only one computer is easily possible, too. Any
streaming device can be used for writing the data to it, usually
this will be a tape device. Writing backups is normally done
sequentially: The next writing to tape goes to the end of the
previous write no matter where you have restored from in the
meantime.
Features:
- Authentication of the client is performed before it can take
over control
- Access restriction for the streamer device -> security
- Client-side per-file compression -> reliability
- Data stream is written to tape in pieces -> fast finding of
files
- Tape position logging for each file
- Tape capacity is fully used
- Full / incremental backups
- Raw partitions can be backed up
- Client and Server buffering for maximal throughput is done
Note: Tk is required if you want to use the graphical
configuration tool instead of the text configuration tool.
Downloads and Documentation
http://sourceforge.net/projects/afbackup/
backup-manager
command-line backup tool for GNU Linux
This is a backup program, designed to help you
make daily archives of your file system.
Written in bash and perl, it can make tar, tar.gz, tar.bz, and
zip archives and can be run in a parallel mode with different
configuration files.
Archives are kept for a given number of days and the upload
system can use ftp or scp to transfer the generated archives to
a list of remote hosts.
The configuration file is very simple and basic and gettext is
used for internationalization.
Downloads and Documentation
http://www.backup-manager.org/
backup2l
low-maintenance backup/restore tool for
mountable media
backup2l [backup-too-l] is a tool for
autonomously generating, maintaining and restoring backups on a
mountable file system (e. g. hard disk). In a default
installation, backups are created regularly by a cron script.
The main design goals are low maintenance effort, efficiency,
transparency and robustness. All control files are stored
together with the archives on the backup device, and their
contents are mostly self-explaining. Hence, a user can - if
necessary - browse the files and extract archives manually.
backup2l features differential backups at multiple hierarchical
levels. This allows to generate small incremental backups at
short intervals while at the same time, the total number of
archives only increases logarithmically with the number of
backups since the last full backup.
An open driver architecture allows to use virtually any
archiving program as a backend. Built-in drivers support .tar.gz,
.tar.bz2, or .afioz files. Further user-defined drivers can be
added.
An integrated split-and-collect function allows to comfortably
transfer all or selected archives to a set of CDs or other
removable media.
Downloads and Documentation
http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/
backupninja
lightweight, extensible meta-backup system
Backupninja lets you drop simple config files
in /etc/backup.d to coordinate system backups. Backupninja is a
master of many arts, including incremental remote filesystem
backup, mysql backup, and ldap backup. By creating simple
drop-in handler scripts, backupninja can learn new skills.
Backupninja is a silent flower blossom death strike to lost
data.
Downloads and Documentation
http://dev.riseup.net/backupninja/
backuppc
high-performance, enterprise-grade system
for backing up PCs
BackupPC is disk based and not tape based.
This particularity allows features not found in any other backup
solution:
* Clever pooling scheme minimizes disk storage and disk
I/O.Identical files across multiple backups of the same or
different PC are stored only once (using hard links), resulting
in substantial savings in disk storage and disk writes.
* Optional compression provides additional reductions in
storage.CPU impact of compression is low since only new files
(those not already in the pool) need to be compressed.
* A powerful http/cgi user interface allows administrators to
view log files,configuration, current status and allows users to
initiate and cancel backups and browse and restore files from
backups very quickly.
* No client-side software is needed. On WinXX the smb protocol
is used.On linux or unix clients, rsync or tar (over ssh/rsh/nfs)
can be used
* Flexible restore options. Single files can be downloaded from
any backup directly from the CGI interface. Zip or Tar archives
for selected files or directories can also be downloaded from
the CGI interface.
* BackupPC supports mobile environments where laptops are only
intermittently connected to the network and have dynamic IP
addresses (DHCP).
* Flexible configuration parameters allow multiple backups to be
performed in parallel.
* and more to discover in the manual...
Downloads and Documentation
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
cdbackup
CD-R(W) backup utility
cdbackup and cdrestore are a pair of utilities designed to
facilitiate streaming backup to and from CD-R(W)
disks.Specificially, they were designed to work with
dump/restore, but tar/cpio/whatever you want should work, so
long as it writes to stdout for backups and reads from stdin for
restores.
Downloads and Documentation
http://www.muempf.de/
dvbackup
backup tool using MiniDV camcorders
Dvbackup hides the data it receives on standard input in a
perfectly legal DV (digital video) stream. This allows you to
use your DV camcorder and your DV cardridges as a potent mass
storage system. Obviously, your system and your camcorder have
to be connected via IEEE1394 (aka Firewire, iLink).
Current digital camcorders can save approximately 13 GB of data
on those tiny DV cartridges at a speed of 3.6 MB/sec. That's
faster than most DAT streamers which only work at 1 MB/sec or
less. dvbackup can not use all of the data, but 10 GB should be
good enough for everyone.
To bring the data on tape, you have to use an additional
utility, called dvconnect, which is included in libdv-bin.
This packages also contains rsbep, an implementation of a
special version of the Reed-Solomon FEC (forward error
correction) algorithm. rsbep also spreads the bytes of the
resulting blocks out to give some protection against burst
errors (e.g from tape-recordings). It should be used in a pipe
together with dvbackup (before dvbackup while encoding and after
it while decoding). rsbep should be sufficient to make the LP
mode of your camcorder usable. This mode, which puts about 50%
more data on the cardridge would otherwise be too error-prone.
rsbep is the fast implementation in i386 assembler, rsbepC uses
pure C and is significantly slower (about ten times).
Downloads and Documentation
http://dvbackup.sourceforge.net/
faubackup
Backup System using a Filesystem for
Storage
This Program uses a filesystem on a hard drive
for incremental and full backups. All Backups can easily be
accessed by standard filesystem tools (ls, find, grep, cp, ...)
Later Backups to the same filesystem will automatically be
incremental, as unchanged files are only hard-linked with the
existing version of the file.
Downloads and Documentation
http://faubackup.sourceforge.net/
flexbackup
Flexible backup tool for small to medium
sized installations
Flexbackup is a flexible backup tool that
works well for small to medium sized tasks for which solutions
like amanda are overkill.
It features:
* Easy configuration
* Uses afio, dump, GNU tar, cpio, star, pax, lha, or zip
archivers
* Full and numbered levels of incremental backup (similar to
"dump")
* Compression and buffering options for all backup types
* Handles remote filesystems with ssh/rsh; no special services
required
* Writes to tapes, on-disk archive files, or on-disk directory
trees
* Keeps a table of contents so you know what archives are on
each tape
* Extensive logging options
Downloads and Documentation
http://www.edwinh.org/flexbackup/
ibackup
Automated backups (even remote) of machine
configurations
This software simplifies the task of backing
up the system configuration files (those under /etc) for UNIX
systems (Solaris, *BSD, Linux). You can run the program from any
directory and it will by default save the (maybe compressed)
tarball to /root.
It is possible to encrypt the tarball, to upload the tarball to
some other host and run the backup automated in a cronjob
Downloads and Documentation
http://www.linuks.mine.nu/ibackup/
rdiff-backup
incremental backups using binary deltas
rdiff-backup is a script that backs up one
directory to another. The target directory ends up a copy of the
source directory,but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special
subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover
files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best
features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup
also preserves subdirectories, symlinks, special files,
permissions, uid/gid ownership (if it is running as root), and
modification times.
Finally, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient
manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup
and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote location,
and only the differences will be transmitted.
Downloads and Documentation
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
slbackup
Skolelinux Backup system
A backup system designed to back up multiple
clients to a server. slbackup uses rdiff-backup as the
underlying backup software.
Clients can be the host installing this package, or other hosts
reachable via a SSH connection (using SSH keys). The host
storing the backup data can be the host installing this package
or another host reachable via a SSH connection (also using SSH
keys).
Downloads and Documentation
http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/index_html
storebackup
fancy compressing managing checksumming hard-linking cp -rua
Copies directory hierarchies recursively into another location,
by date (e.g. /home/ => /var/bkup/2002.12.13_04.27.56/).
Permissions are preserved, so users with access to the backup
directory can recover their files themselves.
File comparisons are done with MD5 checksums, so no changes go
unnoticed.
Hard-links unchanged backuped files to old versions and
identical files within the backuped tree.
Compresses large files (that don't match exclusion patterns).
Manages backups and removes old ones.
Downloads and Documentation
http://sourceforge.net/projects/storebackup
rsync
fast remote file copy program (like rcp)
rsync is a program that allows files to be
copied to and from remote machines in much the same way as rcp.
It has many more options than rcp, and uses the rsync
remote-update protocol to greatly speed up file transfers when
the destination file already exists.
The rsync remote-update protocol allows rsync to transfer just
the differences between two sets of files across the network
link.
Downloads and Documentation
http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
