Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Backup Software

Info-ZIP portable compression/archiver utilities (Zip, UnZip, WiZ, etc.)

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

Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Based on Source Forge downloads, Bacula is the most popular Open Source backup program.

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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.

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

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.

uCON64 is a tool to backup all kinds of video games. It supports almost every available backup unit for cartridge-based consoles and performs many other tasks like ROM hacking.

The Ultimate Archiver: zpaq fork with deduplication & versioning Forget pruning! Get forever storage of your files with thousands of versions. Far more efficient than Time Machine or ZFS snapshots - perfect for VM backups and permanent archiving, effortlessly handling TBs and millions of files. Optimized for cloud/NAS/USB with ultra-low bandwidth, military-grade encryption, and 1GB/s+ speeds on modern hardware. Why Choose zpaqfranz? ✓ Complete: Single/multi-file storage architecture ✓ Modern: SHA-2, SHA-3, BLAKE3, XXH3 and more ✓Paranoid: Antiransomware data verification with integrity checks ✓ Runs everywhere: TrueNAS, ARM-powered, even ESXi ✓ Lightning-fast: Multi-core processing + hardware acceleration ✓ Battle-tested: 15+ years of active development since 2009 Perfect for system administrators managing critical backups and anyone needing bulletproof archival solutions with enterprise-grade reliability. See it in action: https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz

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).

A portable version of the ARJ archiver, available for a growing number of DOS-like and UNIX-like platforms on a variety of architectures.

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

X-CD-Roast is a flexible frontend for optical disc authoring. It combines command line tools like "cdrecord", "cdda2wav", "readcd" and "mkisofs" into a nice GTK based graphical user interface.

Provide access to long file names under real-mode DOS. Supported file systems: FAT12/16/32, ISO9660, Joliet. Supported operations: dir, copy, mkdir, rmdir, ren, cd, del.

GSburn.app is a GNUstep based CD burning program for GNU/Linux. You no longer need to remember ugly command line parameters or write shell scripts. With GSburn.app you compile your CD by point-and-click operation and save your projects for later reuse.

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.

SQL Server Manager Lite is a simple but effective database management tool for Microsoft SQL Server. System Requirements: * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or later * Windows 2000 SP4 * 1 GHz Processor or faster NOTICE: MS SQL Server is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

Simple script of backup using tar for *NIX systems and written in bash, very easy to suit whatever backup policy, using complete, incremental or parcial backups. It has some features for esample mail notification, index of files, error notices, etc.

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.

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.

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.

BackMan is a backup program for Amiga OS and MorphOS which features a MUI interface or, for those who don't like fancy user interfaces, a command line interface.

BackUp Tool is a small Perl script that is periodically executed to created backups of certain projects/directory's and only adds the backup if changes have been made since the last time a backup has been made, to do this it makes use of md5 checksums.

BAR can create compressed, encrypted and splitted archives of files and disk images which can be stored on a disk, cd, dvd, bd or directly on a ftp, scp or sftp server. A server-mode and a scheduler is integrated for making automated backups.

A simple Windows copy/backup program with easy to use GUI. Supports long filenames (above 256 chars). Overwrite options: Always, Never, User confirm, Modification date. Logs all copied/skipped files to log files. Does not die on first copy error!