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.

btrbk is a snapshotting and backup tool tailored for Btrfs that automates consistent, incremental backups using btrfs send/receive. It creates atomic snapshots of subvolumes, then efficiently transfers only changed blocks to local or remote targets over SSH. A declarative configuration describes sources, targets, and retention policies (hourly/daily/weekly/monthly), and btrbk enforces pruning so backup stores don’t grow without bound. The tool supports hierarchical setups—many subvolumes to many destinations—and can throttle, pre/post-hook, and verify operations for reliability. Because it uses native Btrfs primitives, restores are fast and space-efficient, and replicas can be mounted instantly for inspection. Clear logging and dry-run modes make it safe to adopt in production while giving operators visibility into every snapshot and transfer.

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.​

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.

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.

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.

baras is an updated version of "SaraB" - Supports the Towers of Hanoi, Grandfather-Father-Son, or any custom backup rotation strategy. Easy to use and highly configurable. baras utilizes the great backup program, DAR (Disk ARchive).

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/

Mondo Rescue is a GPL suite designed to create disaster recovery or cloning physical or virtual media from which you'll be able to boot in order to restore or clone your original system. It does that in an automatic or interactive way allowing modifs

Websites and any file system elements backup tool

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.

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.

pkgBackup is a Perl program for backing up a home Linux system using *.rpm or *.deb based distros. It archives only those files which (A) are part of a package; and (B) have changed since you installed the package. You can store non-package files.

q-sync synchronisiert Verzeichnisse. q-sync kann den Abgleich mit unterschiedlichen Prioritaeten durchführen und beruecksichtigt das Ergebnis des letzten Sync-laufes für die Beurteilung der Veraenderungen. (Q-sync is a tool for file synchronization

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

Wrapper to Amanda Backup amrecover command using Expect module. A starting point to develop a GPL gui web interface for an Amanda Backup System. It creates a Daemon to support a rpc webservice. Tested on a linux system.

Commandline tool to manage backup files that are stored on hard drives. Employs infinite grandfather-father-son strategy by deleting defined subset of all backup files, saving space while permitting access to older versions. Aka "Virtual Tape Rotation"

Make generational backups with backup monitoring utilities including email notification. Backup to multiple locations with different options. Web restore system so users can restore their own files from a mounted volume or server. Cross platformable.

RSYNC Backup front-end with Web Interface, email reports with attached summary. Simple to use; back up servers with a single line, or your entire server farm from a single machine. Custom email tags sort responses in your MUA. Supports authentication.

BackupAFS is an application to backup OpenAFS cells to a remote backup server's disk. It supports compression, full and multi-level incremental dumps, exponential expiry, and configuration via a friendly web interface.

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.

BackupPC4AFS is a version of BackupPC modified to backup OpenAFS volumes to a backup server's local disk or attached RAID. It supports full and multi-level incremental dumps, exponential expiry, and configuration via conf files or a web interface.

The BackupPC_report(1) is a Perl script that produces reports regarding BackupPC backups on STDOUT. Brief reports provide a quick overview of available backups, calling out warnings that may require attention.