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Info-ZIP project
Info-ZIP portable compression/archiver utilities
Info-ZIP portable compression/archiver utilities (Zip, UnZip, WiZ, etc.) -
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TeleDrive
Unlimited Telegram cloud drive across 5 platforms & 11 languages.
TeleDrive is a 100% open-source virtual cloud filesystem that turns private Telegram storage channels into an unthrottled, unlimited personal cloud drive with zero monthly subscription fees. Connect directly to Telegram MTProto 2.0 datacenters with zero relay servers and zero cloud storage bills. Key Highlights: • Zero Monthly Rent: Unlimited file storage via private Telegram channels. • 5 Native Platforms: Builds for macOS (DMG), Windows (EXE/MSI), Linux (AppImage/DEB/RPM), Android (APK), and iOS (IPA). • 11 Languages: Full localization for EN, PT-BR, ES, HI, ZH-CN, ZH-TW, RU, FR, DE, JA, and ID. • Tauri 2.0 & Rust: Under 250MB RAM usage with sub-millisecond zero-copy binary IPC streaming. • Built-In Workstation: Continuous PDF viewer, interactive CSV data explorer, CodeMirror 6 code editor, and 4K media streaming. • Automated Backup: Rust folder crawler with SHA-256 diff snapshots. Official Site: https://www.teledrive.space | GNU GPLv3 -
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DAR - Disk ARchive
For full, incremental, compressed and encrypted backups or archives
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 -
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Kopia
Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS and Linux
Kopia is a fast, secure, and open-source backup and restore tool designed to help users and administrators protect important data by creating encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and storing them in a range of local, network, or cloud storage locations. Instead of imaging entire machines, it focuses on backing up selected files and directories with efficient incremental backups that only transfer changed data, which reduces storage and bandwidth needs. Kopia has both a command-line interface for automation and scripting as well as a graphical UI for interactive use, making it suitable for advanced users and those who prefer visual tools. Its architecture supports end-to-end encryption, optional compression, and deduplication, so multiple backups can share data efficiently, and repositories can be stored securely even in untrusted locations. -
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zpaqfranz
Zpaq compatible archiver for Win, Linux, Free/OpenBSD, Solaris & MacOS
High-Performance Archiver & Backup for Mission-Critical Data Bulletproof archival for multi-TB datasets, NAS, and VM backups Built for speed: multi-core CPUs and modern SSD/NVMe drives to achieve 1 GB/s+ throughput, up to 3x faster than 7-Zip Far more efficient and versatile than Time Machine or ZFS snapshots Key Features: ✓ Deduplicated, incremental & versioned backups ✓ Anti-ransomware integrity checks & deep validation ✓ Multi-hash support: SHA-2, SHA-3, BLAKE3, XXH3 & more ✓ Strong encryption & low bandwidth overhead for Cloud/NAS/USB ✓ Full deduplicated disk imaging ✓ Read-only Archive Mounting in filesystem ✓ Includes GUI (Win/Linux/Mac): sourceforge.net/projects/catpaq Cross-Platform & Lightweight: Runs on Windows (inc. XP), Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, TrueNAS, Synology, QNAP, ARM, and ESXi. 15+ years of active development • 100% FOSS • Forever Free github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz www.francocorbelli.it/zpaqfranz -
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restic
Fast, secure and efficient backup program
Restic is a backup program that is designed to be easy to use, fast, secure and efficient. It makes doing backups a fast and frictionless process, so you can backup your files every day if you need to. It supports backends for storing backups natively, including on the local directory, sftp server (via SSH), HTTP REST server (protocol rest server), OpenStack Swift, among many others. It also uses cryptography to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your data. Restic supports Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems, as well as FreeBSD and OpenBSD. -
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luckyBackup
...a powerful, fast and reliable backup & sync tool.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -
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FreeFileSync
Free data backup software to synchronize files and folders
FreeFileSync is a free Open Source software that helps you synchronize files and synchronize folders for Windows, Linux and macOS. It is designed to save your time setting up and running data backups while having nice visual feedback along the way. _______________________________________________________________ DOWNLOAD LINKS (official homepage): https://freefilesync.org/ -
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TinyWiiBackupManager
A tiny game backup and homebrew app manager for the Wii
TinyWiiBackupManager is a free, open-source application designed for managing Wii and GameCube game backups and Wii homebrew applications. Built with Rust and Iced, it provides a lightweight graphical interface for organizing game files. The software supports ISO, RVZ, WBFS, and other compatible formats. Users can convert and archive game backups, remove unnecessary update partitions, and verify file integrity. It also retrieves game covers and metadata from GameTDB. For homebrew management, the application supports downloading software from the Open Shop Channel and transferring applications to a Wii over a network. Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, TinyWiiBackupManager simplifies maintaining legally obtained game backups and homebrew collections. -
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7-Zip-JBinding
Java wrapper for 7z archiver engine
Native (JNI) cross-platform library to extract (password protected, multi-part) 7z Zip Rar Tar Split Lzma Iso HFS GZip Cpio BZip2 Z Arj Chm Lhz Cab Nsis Deb Rpm Wim Udf archives and create 7z, Zip, Tar, GZip & BZip2 from Java. -
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AutoMySQLBackup
Automatic MySQL Backup
AutoMySQLBackup with a basic configuration will create Daily, Weekly and Monthly backups of one or more of your MySQL databases from one or more of your MySQL servers. Other Features include: - Email notification of backups - Backup Compression and Encryption - Configurable backup rotation - Incremental database backups Time for a new maintainer.. I first created AutoMySQLBackup in 2002 and since then it's helped many thousands of admins keep their databases backed up.. I always had one basic requirement and that was that it should always be super simple to initially get working.. I would like to hand it over now to someone with the time and skill to keep it updated and take it further.. If you would like to take over the project please get in touch.. -
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Plakar
Plakar is a backup solution powered by Kloset and ptar
Plakar is an open-source backup solution designed to protect files, application data, and contextual metadata in a scalable way. It goes beyond basic file copying by storing data and its surrounding context inside Kloset, an immutable open-source data store. The project focuses on making backups easy to start while still supporting advanced data protection scenarios. It emphasizes security through end-to-end encryption for both backup data and metadata. Plakar is also built for reliability, using immutable storage to reduce the risk of accidental modification or corruption. Its main value is giving users and organizations a practical backup system that combines simple operation, strong protection, and support for large datasets with limited memory usage. -
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SMS Backup+
Backup Android SMS, MMS and call log to Gmail / Gcal / IMAP
This is a fork of the now-defunct Android backup tool SMS Backup. It uses Gmail/IMAP to perform SMS, MMS and call log backups over the network. It is important that you perform the first backup manually. SMS Backup+ needs to know whether you want to upload messages currently stored on your device or not. SMS Backup+ can also backup and restore your call logs. It stores all calls using a separate label (defaults to Call log, but can be changed in "Advanced settings"). If you wish you can set this to the same value as SMS, to make all backups use the same label. -
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phpMyBackupPro
phpMyBackupPro is the MySQL backup tool - especially without ssh!
phpMyBackupPro is a web-based MySQL backup application in PHP. You can schedule backups, download, email or upload them with FTP and backup whole file directories. Zip and gzip compression, easy interface and installation. Many languages and online help! -
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Katalog
Catalog your devices to search, analyze, and backup your files.
Catalog your devices to search, analyze, and backup your files: - Create catalogs from different sources or devices - Search and explore files even when the devices are disconnected - Organize and backup your collection of files, and get statistics User documentation: - Get started/Tutorial: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/docs/tutorial - Download (Linux Flathub): https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.stephanecouturier.Katalog - Documentation: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/docs/Overview - Development: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/docs/Development-Overview - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Katalog-107117844916308 -
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qq-chat-exporter
Utility designed to extract, preserve, and back up chat histories
qq-chat-exporter is a free, open-source utility designed to extract, preserve, and back up chat histories from Tencent QQ. It supports NT QQ and allows users to export conversations with individual contacts and groups. The application can save messages in formats including HTML, JSON, TXT, and Excel. It also retrieves multimedia attachments such as images, videos, and stickers for local storage. All chat data is read and processed locally without uploading conversations to external servers. Its browser-based interface simplifies selecting and exporting conversation records. QQ Chat Exporter offers Windows installation, command-line execution, and Docker deployment options for flexible chat archiving. -
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SimplyBurns
Burns CD / DVD media.
SimplyBurns is a Mac OS X application with a GUI, which allows the user to burn CD / DVD media. -
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Bareos
Bareos is a cross-network Open Source backup solution
Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is an enterprise-grade open-source backup solution forked from Bacula. It offers robust backup, restore, and archiving features for Linux, Windows, and macOS systems. Bareos supports encrypted and deduplicated backups across networks, making it ideal for managing large infrastructure backups. -
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Back In Time
An easy-to-use backup tool for GNU Linux using rsync in the back
Back In Time is an easy-to-use tool to backup files and folders. It runs on GNU Linux (not on Windows or OS X/macOS) and provides a command line tool backintime and a GUI backintime-qt both written in Python3. It uses rsync to take manual or scheduled snapshots and stores them locally or remotely through SSH. Each snapshot is in its own folder with copies of the original files, but unchanged files are hard-linked between snapshots to save storage space. It was inspired by FlyBack. -
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Rockstor
BTRFS based NAS and private cloud storage solution
Rockstor is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) and private cloud storage solution based on advanced Linux technologies like BTRFS, Docker and others. In addition to standard NAS features like file sharing via NFS, Samba, SFTP and AFP, advanced features such as online volume management, CoW Snapshots, asynchronous replication, compression, and bitrot protection are supported based on BTRFS. Rockstor also provides apps like ownCloud, Syncthing, OpenVPN, and Plex to name a few. Apps or "Rock-ons" are powered by a Docker-based application hosting framework. And new ones can be simply added. These Rock-ons, combined with advanced NAS features, turn Rockstor into a private cloud storage solution accessible from anywhere, giving users complete control of cost, ownership, privacy and data security. Rockstor UI is written in Javascript, making it simple to manage everything from your Web browser. The backend is written in Python and exposes RESTful APIs to easily extend functionality! -
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Providing a tool to apply the data-recovery capability concepts of RAID-like systems to the posting & recovery of multi-part archives on Usenet.
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CopyMastro
Simple application to copy files and folders.
Simple application to copy files and folders for Windows, Linux and MacOSX. -
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Vchanger may be used with the Bacula Open Source network backup system to emulate a magazine-based tape autoloader using disk partitions on fixed or removable disk drives as virtual magazines and files on those partitions as virtual tape volumes.
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Vorta Backup Client
Desktop Backup Client for Borg Backup
Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty Borg Backup with your favorite desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft. -
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FullSync
Easy file synchronization for everyone
FullSync is a powerful tool that helps you keep multiple copies of various data in sync. I.e. it can update your Website using (S)Ftp, backup your data or refresh a working copy from a remote server. It offers flexible rules, a scheduler and more
