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.

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.

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

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.

Software for automated backups using standard tools like rsync and tar, with easy to configure config file. Check backup reports by mail or via built in web server. Centralized report client/server for easy control of all your backup servers.

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.

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).

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

CDriveBack backs up partitions for Novice End Users. If the user boots the Live-CD, waits for it to settle, then hits enter, their C: Drive will be backed up. There are also advanced options.

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.

[In Development!] TLE-BU is a complete backup program for Linux. It's focus is on ease-of-use, while remaining flexible. It uses it's own internal web and PostgreSQL servers for ease of install and removal and to avoid conflict with existing software

Perl script to help pick which backup set to check and then run with Amanda. Designed to run only on the Amanda tape server. Replaces all amcheck and amdump cron jobs with two entries: "ampick.pl -c" and "ampick.pl -d"

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

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.