Open Source Perl Backup 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).

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.

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.

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, Windows, and macOS systems to a central server using rsync, tar, SMB, or FTP. It uses hard-linking and compression to efficiently store multiple backups of the same files and offers a web interface for administration and restore. BackupPC is suitable for environments where centralized, disk-based backups are needed.

Generic SCSI target subsystem for Linux SCST allows creation of sophisticated storage devices. It includes generic SCSI target core with SCSI target drivers and backend handlers. There are target drivers for iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SRP, SAS, FCoE, etc.

Amanda is the most popular Backup and Archiving software that protects multiple machines running various versions of Linux, UNIX and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It supports tapes, disks, optical media and changers.

rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems. It leverages rsync and hard links to create efficient incremental backups, allowing users to maintain multiple backups without consuming excessive disk space.​

MondoRescue is the premier GPL disaster recovery suite for Linux/FreeBSD

NasBackup is high-performance backup solotion for backup Windows PCs to network disks on Linux or Windows server. It can replace traditional tape backup. Only file differences are send over the network. NasBackup offer p2p backup community service.

A Bacula web-based management interface for SME (http://contribs.org) distribution and bacula packages Project has been made by ASPerience (http://www.asperience.fr/pole-systeme-et-reseaux/sauvegarde) for SME. Product is internally maintained. We have repackaged for SME 9.x and both bacula and bareos (https://sourceforge.net/projects/smeserver-bareos/). 1.4 is for SME SERVER 9.0 1.3 is for SME SERVER 7.4 Full set of screenshots: https://plus.google.com/photos/110107797324512983755/albums/6078551068603641249 Version for SME 7.4 was delivered with a patch for a new way of managing backups for notebooks (notebook opens a socket to director to pass through firewalls thus allowing to backup while notebook is away). Bacula patch is currently reevaluated in order to see if we'll propose again to bacula or bareos

Backup to another disk. Optimimal reduced disk space and to improved performance. storeBackup is now hosted at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/storebackup You will find the homepage at http://www.nongnu.org/storebackup/

PackRat is Backup and Recovery for Perl empowered systems. It is intended to provide a light-weight disaster-recovery capability to any system running the aproporiate perl, but is developed and tested only under linux at this point. Future releases will i

Syncmin is a Webmin module, which synchronizes files between two systems. To optimize the speed of processing, rsync synchronization technology is used, which only copies file differences.

arclog archives the log files monthly. It supports Apache access log, Syslog, NTP, Apache 1 SSL engine log, modified ISO date/time log file formats, and Apache-like logs like CUPS, ProFTPD, Pure-FTPd… etc., and gzip and bzip2 compression methods.

bkp is a simple command line backup tool, written in perl, under GPL license; it allows you to make backup of your data.

cdbkup performs full or incremental backups of local or remote filesystems onto CD-R(W)s. Results are stored as tarballs on single- or multi-session ISO CDs. It works either interactively for multi-CD backups, or non-interactively for single-CD backups.

Delta-backup is a PERL wrapper of the RSYNC command for cross system backup with differential archiving. This tool should be considered as a proof of concept rather than a tool suitable for production use.

flickrsync is a command line tool written in Perl that aims to backup a complete directory structure to Flickr. It creates separate albums on Flickr based on the directory structure of the images. The main goal is to upload all pictures without requiring to move them to new folders. It relies on a few Perl packages mainly to handle HTTP requests and the file system. You should create Your own Flickr API keys, authentication token and add them to the application after You have downloaded it.

lmftp is a perl program to schedule file transfers via ftp on a onetime or regular basis. lmftp supports compression, local backups, email notifications and automatic retries of failed jobs. It's intended to be used for file distribution or backup jobs

rdiff-backup-web is a web front-end for the popular rdiff-backup software, written in PHP and perl, both connecting to a MySQL database. Now maintained at: https://github.com/puredistortion/rdiff-backup-web

tardiff is a perl utility that enables easy patch creation for two different versions of a build/install tree in tarball format. tardiff uses advanced mechanisms to determine differences (visit homepage for a thorough description).

Simplebackup is a cross-platform backup program. It reads a configuration file then builds a compress backup set, finally places the compressed files into another location (a directory, a remote http,ftp,sftp server or even one or more email accounts).

Tool for copy partitions to another HDD. FreeBSD stores its data on partitions, which incapsulated in slices. Soft, such as Partition Magic, Acronis, etc. detect only slice, not real partitions on that slice. CloneHDD correctly understand size diference.

Flexible backup script. Easy to configure, uses dump/afio/tar/cpio/star/etc. backend. Backup levels as in dump. Configurable backup sets. Writes to tapes, on-disk archive files, or on-disk directory trees. rpm-mode for only changed/unowned files.

SAMFS Restore Utilitiy - Import archiver.log to PostgreSQL - Navigate paths, files, versions - Search paths, files - Curses UI with limited mouse - Restore files/dirs with recover.sh/samfsrestore - Uses external cmds (e.g. scripts) to connect to SAM-FS