Open Source FreeBSD Archiving 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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ windows users, note that luckybackup is originally developed for linux and the windows port (version) is under heavy development at the moment. Feedback is more than welcome and will be appreciated, but please consider the above before you provide a negative review. windows dedicated forum: https://sourceforge.net/p/luckybackup/discussion/2264489/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Additional error correction for CD, DVD and BD media.

Restic is a backup program that is designed to be easy to use, fast, secure and efficient. It makes doing backups a fast and frictionless process, so you can backup your files every day if you need to. It supports backends for storing backups natively, including on the local directory, sftp server (via SSH), HTTP REST server (protocol rest server), OpenStack Swift, among many others. It also uses cryptography to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your data. Restic supports Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems, as well as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

Advanced archiver (zpaq fork) with deduplication and versioning. Never prune your backups: keeps a forever-to-ever copy (even thousands of versions) of your files, conceptually similar to Mac time machines, or zfs' snapshots, but much more efficiently. Ideal for virtual machine backup and "freezing" zfs snapshots forever. Easily handles millions of files and TBs of data. Allows rsync backups to the cloud (or NAS, or USB) with minimal data transfer, encryption and very limited bandwidth. Highest possibilities of data verification, fast, deep and even paranoid-level, with support for multithread acceleration on SSD/NVMe (real world 1GB/s+). Freeware Win GUI (PAKKA) here https://www.francocorbelli.it/pakka/build/latest No complex repository folders, just one file. Latest "hashers" (SHA-3, BLAKE3 w/HW acceleration on Win, XXH3) 15+ years of developing (2009-now). Seeing is believing! https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz/wiki

Efficient Client-Server Backup system for Linux, macOS and Windows. A client for Windows, FreeBSD and Linux lets you backup open files and complete partition images (Windows). Backups are stored to disks in a efficient way (deduplication) on either Windows or Linux servers.

These tools are used to view information about, and to control, Media Changer devices such as Tape and DVD/CD libraries.

Inno Setup is a tool to create installers for Microsoft Windows applications. innoextract allows to extract such installers under non-Windows systems without running the actual installer using Wine. NOTE: NEW VERSIONS WILL NOT BE UPLOADED TO SOURCEFORGE! Instead, use the official website at http://constexpr.org/innoextract/

Easy-to-use multi-platform disk cataloguing program supporting local or removable media - drives and folders. Uses XML files as a data storage. It was originally created in 2010 to catalogue software compilations (also called freeware compilations) and CDs distributed with computer magazines. It was later improved to support any kind of disk and folder. It can be used to catalogue fragile disks like CDs, floppies, external hard drives, usb sticks, memory cards which are easy to damage. Cataloguing enables user to check what they contain without putting them physically into drive and avoid a possibility of a mechanical damage. Download package consists of a jar file and a Eclipse project with a full source code. No installation is required. You can copy this program anywhere or transfer it to another computer. Setting unique volume label to a drive before cataloguing is recommended. See blog or homepage for news and changelog. This program requires JRE 6 or newer.

Fpart is a tool that helps you sort file trees and pack them into bags (called "partitions"). It is developped in C and available under the BSD license. It splits a list of directories and file trees into a certain number of partitions, trying to produce partitions with the same size and number of files. It can also produce partitions with a given number of files or a limited size. Once generated, partitions are either printed as file lists to stdout (default) or to files. Those lists can then be used by third party programs. Fpart also includes a live mode, which allows it to crawl very large filesystems and produce partitions in live. Hooks are available to act on those partitions (e.g. immediatly start a transfer using rsync(1)) without having to wait for the filesystem traversal job to be finished. Used this way, fpart can be seen as a powerful data migration tool.

Tool for copy partitions to another HDD. FreeBSD stores its data on partitions, which incapsulated in slices. Soft, such as Partition Magic, Acronis, etc. detect only slice, not real partitions on that slice. CloneHDD correctly understand size diference.

Grpar is a BSD-licensed tool to extract Build engine group (.grp) files. See Ken Silverman's Build engine page (http://advsys.net/ken/build.htm) for more information.

RKV allows the user to backup and restore whatever he wants in a very flexible way. The actual backup and restore procedures are supplied by the user. RKV packages and executes them, so it's a kind of framework. Written in shell.

Flexible backup script. Easy to configure, uses dump/afio/tar/cpio/star/etc. backend. Backup levels as in dump. Configurable backup sets. Writes to tapes, on-disk archive files, or on-disk directory trees. rpm-mode for only changed/unowned files.

A FreeBSD console utility that finds, lists and possibly removes unreferenced packages. It lets the user choose which packages to remove and which ones to keep. It maintains a keep-list file, so previously kept packages will be skipped automatically.

Bacula-Web is a web based UI mostly written in PHP which provide you a summarized view of your Bacula's backup infrastructure. It obtain his information from your Bacula catalog's database. Latest stable version is available on https://www.bacula-web.org (Bacula-Web 9.5.0 - released on March 18th 2024).

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

The Bluetail Ticket Tracker (BTT) is a system for creating, storing and keeping track of tickets. BTT can also store customer info and mail, as well as general information structures (e.g FAQ).

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

BupBox is a suite of tools for building a "backup appliance" capable of serving a home or small office. It is optimized for one and only one use case: a pool of PCs push backups to a master BupBox server, which then mirrors to other remote BupBoxes. If this sounds like your situation, you couldn't make a better choice ; )

Custom Burner allows to burn CDs or DVDs on many computers, managing them from a central server.

DVD Scripts is a collection of scripts that assists with DVD authoring and backups. Included are dvdmm (full motion menus), dvdvt (image/video slideshows featuring video transitions and audio), and securedvd (loop-aes encrypted DVD backups).

A simple system to perform backups to central backup server using SSH as tunnel and rsync as backend. Doesn't require any additional ports open (except SSH). All data goes through a secure crypted channel.

Fiark is a File Transfer Tool (FTT.) Unlike a backup, an FTT is designed to QUICKLY copy ("float") files between a DIVERSE set of computing environments.

File2PNG was designed to pack all files in the PNG image format in order to facilitate secure file transfer where it is not supported to retrieve all types of files, such as images or hosting social networks.