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

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.

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

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.

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Naeon is a secure cloud storage solution that uses unbreakable military-grade encryption and zero-knowledge privacy to protect confidential data in an untrusted environment. The data are encrypted using the AES 256-bit encryption algorithm with a randomly generated 128-character passphrase. Then, it is split into small pieces called chunks, which are obfuscated by adding random data to each chunk to make them unreadable and indecipherable to unauthorized individuals or processes. The encryption key and the concatenation order of the sharded chunks of encrypted data remain with the user, who should have a proper key management strategy in place. Naeon offers a backup tool that helps minimize the risk of data loss due to ransomware and other cyber attacks, as well as insider threats related to cyber security incidents. For more information, visit www.naeon.nl/download/docs/naeon_paper.pdf Get the latest development version here: www.naeon.nl/dev/naeon_latest.tar.gz

KBackup is an easy-to-use backup package for Unix. It was originally writen by Karsten Balluder. Currently, it's development has stagnated, and several fixes are needed. The main mailing-list for KBackup is in egroups (www.egroups.com).

lzop is a file compressor similar to gzip. Its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed, at the cost of some compression ratio. lzop uses the LZO library for compression services.

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

HSzip zip data and add a the datetime to create snapshoot HSsync synchonize a Source with the Dest, This is powerfull backup anywhere. HSmakevers is only intresting for C/C++/C# programmers. Add in your prebuild HSmakevers to create your own version.c with same information.

Jar Ajar is a JAR-based self-extractor for zip files. Zip up files and package them with descriptive images and text using Jar Ajar's graphical interface. When recipients launch the resulting JAR, Jar Ajar guides users through the unzip process.

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.

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.