Open Source Perl Archiving Software

Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image®. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition).

Greenstone is a complete digital library creation, management and distribution package created and distributed by the New Zealand Digital Library Project. There are two major versions of the software. Greenstone 3 is under active development, and is recommended for download. We also provide maintenance releases for its forerunner, Greenstone 2. Featured download not what you're looking for? Click "Browse all files" to access binaries and source releases of both versions.

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade backup system for backing up Linux, WinXX PCs, Macs and laptops to a server's disk. Features include clever pooling of identical files, no client-side software, and a powerful Apache/CGI user interface.

rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems. It leverages rsync and hard links to create efficient incremental backups, allowing users to maintain multiple backups without consuming excessive disk space.​

Generic SCSI target subsystem for Linux SCST allows creation of sophisticated storage devices. It includes generic SCSI target core with SCSI target drivers and backend handlers. There are target drivers for iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SRP, SAS, FCoE, etc.

Amanda is the most popular Backup and Archiving software that protects multiple machines running various versions of Linux, UNIX and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It supports tapes, disks, optical media and changers.

VDC has been superseded by DVN: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvn/ ---- The Virtual Data Center project is building an operational, open-source, digital library to enable the sharing of quantitative research data, and the development of distribute

A wrapper for dozens of archiving, compression and image-tools like tar, gzip, zip, arj, rar, ace, arc, zoo, lha, lzx, dms, adf, d64 and more.

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.

SystemImager is software that makes the installation of Linux to masses of similar machines relatively easy. It makes software distribution, configuration, and operating system updates easy, and can also be used for content distribution.

The littleutils include duplicate file finders (repeats, repeats.pl, repeats.py), image optimizers (opt-jpg, opt-png, opt-gif, recomp-jpg), file rename tools (lowercase, uppercase, pren), archive recompressors (to-gzip, to-bzip2, to-bzip3, to-7zip, to-lzma, to-lzip, to-xz), a tempfile utility (tempname), file property tools (filedate, filemode, filenode, fileown, filesize, and lrealpath), and others. See the README file for more details.

Loggerithim is an extensible monitoring and remote management package. It allows you to monitor your systems, proactively spot problems, remotely manage, perform post-mortems, throw alerts when bad things happen, predict future needs, and automate routin

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.

RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. This is a port of the RPM software, including rpmbuild and yum/APT-RPM, to Darwin and Mac OS X

NasBackup is high-performance backup solotion for backup Windows PCs to network disks on Linux or Windows server. It can replace traditional tape backup. Only file differences are send over the network. NasBackup offer p2p backup community service.

LRSR / Linux Restore ScRipt is a command line (Bash/Perl) script for restoring system information. LRSR also can be edited to create "Mini" distros from a pre-existing UNIX/Linux computer.

The filewatcher program monitors system files. Changes are archived into an RCS repository and change reports are sent via e-mail.

tardiff is a perl utility that enables easy patch creation for two different versions of a build/install tree in tarball format. tardiff uses advanced mechanisms to determine differences (visit homepage for a thorough description).

Syncmin is a Webmin module, which synchronizes files between two systems. To optimize the speed of processing, rsync synchronization technology is used, which only copies file differences.

Archmbox is a simple email archiver written in perl; it parses one or more mailboxes and performs specific actions.

REOBack (pronounced as ray-o-back), is a backup solution designed for Linux users/system admins. It supports scheduled full/incremental backups, remote transfers via NFS or FTP as well as auto-deletion of old backups.

The goal is to provide a Webmin module to configure and manage the Amanda Backup System, a great backup software. It will provide an easy way to setup, test and run a complete Amanda installation, with the tools provided by the Webmin interface.

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.

cdbkup performs full or incremental backups of local or remote filesystems onto CD-R(W)s. Results are stored as tarballs on single- or multi-session ISO CDs. It works either interactively for multi-CD backups, or non-interactively for single-CD backups.

OpenHSM is policy based software for managing files. Files can be automatically backed up to tape or to a mirror filesystem. Data can be removed from files and transparently retrieved if the file is accessed. All tiers are peers, and may run policy.