Open Source Python Backup Software

Back In Time is an easy-to-use tool to backup files and folders. It runs on GNU Linux (not on Windows or OS X/macOS) and provides a command line tool backintime and a GUI backintime-qt both written in Python3. It uses rsync to take manual or scheduled snapshots and stores them locally or remotely through SSH. Each snapshot is in its own folder with copies of the original files, but unchanged files are hard-linked between snapshots to save storage space. It was inspired by FlyBack.

The sbackup suite is a simple backup solution for Gnome desktop. All configuration is accessable via Gnome interface. File and paths can be included and excluded directly or by regex, local and remote backups supported.

Rockstor is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) and private cloud storage solution based on advanced Linux technologies like BTRFS, Docker and others. In addition to standard NAS features like file sharing via NFS, Samba, SFTP and AFP, advanced features such as online volume management, CoW Snapshots, asynchronous replication, compression, and bitrot protection are supported based on BTRFS. Rockstor also provides apps like ownCloud, Syncthing, OpenVPN, and Plex to name a few. Apps or "Rock-ons" are powered by a Docker-based application hosting framework. And new ones can be simply added. These Rock-ons, combined with advanced NAS features, turn Rockstor into a private cloud storage solution accessible from anywhere, giving users complete control of cost, ownership, privacy and data security. Rockstor UI is written in Javascript, making it simple to manage everything from your Web browser. The backend is written in Python and exposes RESTful APIs to easily extend functionality!

Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager) is an enterprise-grade tool for managing backups and disaster recovery of PostgreSQL databases. It supports both full and incremental backups, Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR), and remote backup via SSH. Barman is widely used by DBAs to ensure secure, reliable, and consistent backups in production environments.

A simple keylogger written in python. It is primarily designed for backup purposes, but can be used as a stealth keylogger, too. It does not raise any trust issues, since it is a set of [relatively] short python scripts that you can easily examine.

Back ups your application settings in a safe directory (e.g. Dropbox). Syncs your application settings among all your workstations. Restores your configuration on any fresh install in one command line. If you have Dropbox installed and want to use it to save your config files, that's super easy. On macOS, if you want an easy install, you can install Homebrew and initialize it with it. If not running macOS, or you don't like Homebrew, you can use pip. On Ubuntu, pip will install to the current user's home directory rather than system-wide. Because of this, when installing pip on Ubuntu you will need to run pip install with the --system flag as well (on other platforms this is not needed). By only tracking pure configuration files, it keeps the crap out of your freshly new installed workstation (no cache, temporary and locally specific files are transfered). Mackup makes setting up the environment easy and simple, saving time for your family, great ideas, and all the cool stuff you like.

Barman (backup and recovery manager) is an administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python. It allows to perform remote backups of multiple servers in business critical environments and help DBAs during the recovery phase. Barman's most wanted features include backup catalogs, retention policies, remote recovery, archiving and compression of WAL files and backups. Barman is written and maintained by PostgreSQL professionals 2ndQuadrant.

borgmatic is a simple, configuration-driven backup automation tool built to work with BorgBackup. It simplifies the creation, pruning, and verification of encrypted, deduplicated backups through a single YAML configuration file. Designed for both servers and desktops, borgmatic is ideal for users who want reliable, scriptable backup workflows with minimal setup and strong security.

django-dbbackup is a Django management command extension for backing up and restoring databases and media files. It supports multiple storage backends including local file systems, Amazon S3, and Dropbox. Ideal for automated backup strategies, it simplifies the integration of backup logic into Django projects.

AnyBackup is designed to keep two pools of volumes in sync with one another. The primary use case is backing up one large network array to several smaller volumes. These syncs are intended to be periodic and user initiated. Disclaimer: AnyBackup is not an enterprise solution and I make no guarantees and offer no warranties. I have been using it to keep up to date backups of ~11tb of data for the duration of the project and I've suffered no data loss as a result. This, however, does not mean that through bugs or user error data loss cannot occur.

Using this project you can make backup and track changes of configuration of network devices like switches, routers, etc.

A GUI shell to browse origin and destination directory for the terminal Robocopy command, to backup only newer files.

iSCSIsim is a powerful generic test tool for iSCSI targets. Its capabilities include SCSI command injection, error insertion, and recovery testing: all with built-in validation of test results.

Utility to help create backups more easily. The idea of the program is that all essential information for creating a backup is in a single file. It can use ‘tar’ for creating archives, has a command line interface, and supports incremental backups.

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.

Archeotes is a backup software designed to be extremely flexible. Define exactly which files you want to save, encrypt, compress, keep old copies, encrypt path, safe delete of obsolete files. Complete and differential backup capability. Easy recovery

Backup your data by trading it with peers on the Internet.

ECLiPt Roaster is a graphical frontend for cdrecord, mkisofs written in gnome-python

DiscSpan is a tool that will take that a large directory full of files and automatically burn a series of DVDs to near capacity, without the need or hassle of creating individual ISOs while keeping the files individually accessible.

Archiving/backup framework written in Python. Uses archiving directives within the file system itself in the form of .archmanrc files; Python modules that specify which files and directories to include.

Auto Migrator is a collection of python scripts that perform automated migrating(syncing) of files and folders.

A very simple file backup app. Drop your file on the program icon or select item in context menu (Linux) to create a backup folder where numbered backups of your file will be stored.

Cloud Export is a tool to automatically extract your data from web applications and save it to your local file system for backup purposes, but more extensive than Google Takeout. Plans are based on http://www.dataliberation.org.

Easy Backup is a simple backup application written in Python that can backup selected files and save them into tar files. It also backs up the ownership and permissions of the file.

ImapArchiver is a tool which can be used to save the all imap account into a local directory/archive. The ideal objective is to used it with cron to automatically make a back up of your imap account