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.

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.​

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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/

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.

A tool to manage configurations of network devices in CVS, such as Cisco routers and switches, 3COM equipment, and more. Uses a combination of perl and TCL to extract configuration, and dump into a repository. Modules are easily written to support new d

CD Backup and Burning Utils for Unix (Linux) A set of Utilities which provides a simple, yet powerful and versatile way to burn CD Media from the unix command line. Including CD backups and restores. Uses only standard utils (cdrecord, mkisofs, perl)

Personalbackup a company-wide solution for backing up all your Windows machines and Samba shares. Personalbackup uses a web frontend for the users and administrators. No client software is needed at all to pull backups of your critical data.

Citrix Xenserver Guests Virtual Machines backup. Different way configuration, jobs, logging, email report in html etc.

cPanel Backup is a set of automated scripts for triggering full backups of your website through cPanel and retrieving the backup files using FTP.

"persync" is for the lazy person who wants backups in a quick and space saving way. It is fast, small, makes restoration really easy, and supports profiles for multiple backup scenarios.

Rdbackup is a small and easy to use backup system based on rsync and ssh. It works with a disk-to-disk backuping strategy where the data are stored on a single backup server. Rdbackup also provides a status monitoring through the SNMP interface.

splitbox, a small command line Perl script. It splits multiple Berkeley mbox formatted email files into separate *.eml files, saved in separate folders. It can also split mailbox files of Evolution, Kmail or may be other email clients too.

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.

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