Open Source Unix Shell 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).

OpenMediaVault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins. OpenMediaVault is primarily designed to be used in home environments or small home offices, but is not limited to those scenarios. It is a simple and easy to use out-of-the-box solution that will allow everyone to install and administrate a Network Attached Storage without deeper knowledge.

Grsync is used to synchronize folders, files and make backups. It is a rsync GUI (Graphical User Interface).

Usm is a unified slackware package manager that handles automatic dependency resolution. It unifies various package repositories including slackware, slacky, ponce, salix and alien. It also supports slackbuilds.org and will build from source.

FOG is a free open-source cloning/imaging solution/rescue suite. FOG can be used to image Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Window 8 PCs using PXE, PartClone, and a Web GUI to tie it together. Includes featues like memory and disk test, disk wipe, av scan & task scheduling.

Duply is a shell front end for the duplicity backup tool https://duplicity.us . It simplifies the usage by implementing backup job profiles, batch commands and more. Secure backup to non-trusted file spaces made easy.

A self-extracting archiving tool for Unix systems, in 100% shell script. makeself.sh is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable compressed tar archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launched as is. The archive will then uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an optional arbitrary command will be executed (for example an installation script). This is pretty similar to archives generated with WinZip Self-Extractor in the Windows world. Makeself archives also include checksums for integrity self-validation (CRC and/or MD5/SHA256 checksums).

G4L version 0.70 has some major changes in build, but operation is mostly the same. Note: Build using Fedora 43 as Build system. Just reuploaded file. Missed changing default value of Lzop to Zstd on lines 60 and 61. Selecting compress did default to Zstd correctly. Changes in 0.70 Release 0.70a started 2026/03/10 Fedora 43 13329408 May 23 22:37 bz7x0.10 13333504 May 18 09:45 bz7x1.rc4 New BusyBox v1.39.0.git (2026-05-13 15:14:04 ChST) multi-call binary. Old BusyBox v1.38.0.git (2026-05-05 12:53:35 ChST) multi-call binary. added fstrim Change bz2 compression with zstd compress is test script Add prepdisk option to clean ext type file systems using fstrim and with zerofree. remove linuxrc from busybox and /linuxrc since initrd no longer used, so not needed for initramfs

m23 is a free software distribution system (license: GPL), that installs (via network, starting with partitioning and formatting) and administrates (updates, adds / removes software, adds / removes scripts) clients with Debian, (X/K)Ubuntu and LinuxMint. It is used for deployment of Linux clients in schools, institutions and enterprises. The m23 server is controlled via a web interface. A new m23 client can be installed easily in only three steps. Group functions and mass installation tools make managing a vast number of clients comfortable. The integration of existing clients (with .deb-based distributions) into the system is possible, too. Client backup and server backup are included to avoid data loss. With the integrated virtualisation software, m23 can create and manage virtual m23 clients, that run on real m23 clients or the m23 server. Scripts and software packages (for installation on clients) can be created directly from the m23 web interface.

The aoetools are programs for users of the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) network storage protocol, a simple protocol for using storage over an ethernet LAN. The vblade program (storage target) exports a block device using AoE.

mac-cleanup is a cleanup script for macOS.

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.

Backup script for Windows based on robocopy Fast backup, syncs changed files only. Space efficient, all duplicate files are Hardlinked. Easy Overview of destination folder Structure: Computer Name > Date_Time > Drive > Folder > File

mp3 library, advanced ID3V1 and ID3V2 tagger, player. Organize a large mp3 library, over 40,000 songs. Speech synthesis and tag backup utilities. Scripts to maintain and organize song files.

Linux-based Network Bootmanager A graphical bootmanager providing OS deployment and repair for Linux, Windows, possibly other operating systems, via PXE and local cache.

MANGO is a live CD/USB pendrive to do a massive clone of disk or partition over the network. You can clone easily a lot of computers at the same time.

This project has moved to GitHub https://github.com/Zipios/Zipios Zipios is a C++ library for reading and writing Zip archive files. Access to the data of individual entries is provided through standard C++ iostreams. A simple read-only virtual file system that mounts regular directories and zip files is also provided.

Chronicle is a set of BASH shell scripts that use rsync to back up data to a remote host. Snapshots are created and rotated using hard links to minimize storage requirements.

Nhopkg is a lightweight and powerfull package manager system for unix like operating systems. Nhopkg can install, remove, update, search and manage software packages (.nho).

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.

Bash script for creating backups on any Unix and Windows system. Written in Bash and C#.

DCMLinux is a complete PACS system, free of charge. Its core is an Ubuntu 14.04 system fully updated and it contains the DCM4CHEE as its PACS server. In the near future it will contain many other addons such as Weasis, Oviyam, Care2x, etc. Just download the iso, burn it to a CD and boot it up. No need to configure any files of dcm4chee, DCMLinux installer asks for everything it needs to configure a running PACS in minutes. Project Wiki : http://wiki.dcmlinux.org Project Forums: http://forums.dcmlinux.org

What's ? Tux2live is a toolkit to build your Linux live environment from what you installed in hard disk and it's easy to customize and configure. Official web site: [En] http://tux2live.sourceforge.net/ [zh_TW] http://tux.nchc.org.tw/trac/tux2live

A project to provide change control for OpenDocument files via subversion under Unix. Can check in internal changes in files and allows users to recover any previous version, view logs and compare with older versions.

The Personal Backup Appliance is a VMware virtual appliance that can clone, backup, and restore your hard disk over the network. Our goal is to provide an open-source bare-metal backup and restore utility that is powerful, simple and easy to use.