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.

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.

REOBack (pronounced as ray-o-back), is a backup solution designed for Linux users/system admins. It supports scheduled full/incremental backups, remote transfers via NFS or FTP as well as auto-deletion of old backups.

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).

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.

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.

What's ? Tux2live is a toolkit to build your Linux live environment from what you installed in hard disk and it's easy to customize and configure. Official web site: [En] http://tux2live.sourceforge.net/ [zh_TW] http://tux.nchc.org.tw/trac/tux2live

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

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

DIASER, Geo-data duplication long-term archive system & WAN vault. Manage mixed data archives generated by existing backup software. Ensure availability using commodity hardware. Retain administrative and financial control.

The goal is to provide a Webmin module to configure and manage the Amanda Backup System, a great backup software. It will provide an easy way to setup, test and run a complete Amanda installation, with the tools provided by the Webmin interface.

Backup and Disaster Recovery for VMware VI3 / vSphere 4 environments fully integrated into Virtual Center. First Open Source backup software for VMware Consolidated Backup and ESX Server.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Becky is a backup suite for Linux (and other Unices) that supports Unix and Windows clients. Backups are kept on large disk arrays where they can be accessed directly, traditional archives may also be written to tape or DVD.