Open Source Cygwin Backup 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

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.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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

SaraB - Schedule And Rotate Automatic Backups. Supports the Towers of Hanoi, Grandfather-Father-Son, or any custom backup rotation strategy. Easy to use and highly configurable. SaraB utilizes the great backup program, DAR (Disk ARchive).

GitSync is a shell script designed to simplify the usage of the version control system GIT (see www.git-scm.com for more information) by providing a "do everything to sync my repository" command.

A reliable rsync based backup system, simple to configure, simple to run, simple to restore data

AHN Backup is a set of Backup Scripts Written for the Windows x64/32bit platform. Needs a SMB Network Share to function correctly, and the only Requirement is the use of the Internal Windows Backup Utility and a couple of Cygwin Binaries.

DIASER, Geo-data duplication long-term archive system & WAN vault. Manage mixed data archives generated by existing backup software. Ensure availability using commodity hardware. Retain administrative and financial control.

EGW Backup is a backup software with EGroupWare module as user Interface. It use Rsync, SSH, MySQL, XML, Perl. It's purpose is to save end-user station with a simplify way for the administrator. [Only in French at this time]

File replication and synchronization. The goal of this project is to provide a mechanism to keep files up-to-date across file systems.

Alternate language bindings for the libdar library written by Dennis Corbin. The original application DAR is a command line backup tool that uses libdar, a library implemented in C++.

Perl Backup Machine is a backup utility that creates incremental backups of files and directories to a local or networked folder. Perl Backup Machine allows to restore the whole saved file to their original place or to another directory.

rsb is a Really Simple Backup program

This is a simple bkp_client script for backuppc providing some API and plugin infrastructure for preparing clients to backup.

moved to http://bdz.googlecode.com

A shell script to automate backup of del.icio.us bookmark.

dumpnet is a collection of bash scripts that allows you to backup multiple servers simultaneously. You can do incremental file system dumps with tar, dump and rsync, backup databases and much more. AIDE can also easily be integrated.

available at http://licielrsync.googlecode.com

The utility sfxcompress is a bash script used to pack and encrypt the current directory on a self-extracting file. It also includes the calculation of the MD5 function to check if the compressed file is correct.